Pharmacological DNA demethylation: Implications for cancer immunotherapy.

Oncoimmunology

Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Published: March 2016

Recent studies have demonstrated that DNA demethylation agents can mimic a viral infection by induction of dsRNAs. This viral mimicry leads to an antiviral response mediated by the cytosolic pattern recognition receptor MDA5, followed by MAVS (IPS1) activation, IRF7 nuclear translocation and upregulation of type III Interferon and interferon-stimulated genes.

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