Driving Rel-iant Tregs toward an Identity Crisis

Abstract

Inhibiting Treg cell function in tumors is an attractive strategy to improve anti-cancer immunity. In a pair of papers in Immunity and Cell, Ghosh and colleagues show that the canonical NF-κB subunits p65 and c-Rel have non-redundant, critical roles in promoting Treg cell development and function (Oh et al., 2017). Targeting c-Rel blunts Treg cell immunosuppressive activity in the tumor microenvironment and enhances anti-tumor T cell responses (Grinberg-Bleyer et al., 2017).