A Tumor Cell-Intrinsic Yin-Yang Determining Immune Evasion.

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is mostly refractory to immunotherapies. In this issue of Immunity, Li et al. (2018) generate a library of clonal PDAC tumors to examine the tumor-intrinsic features shaping the anti-tumor immune response and find that tumor cell-derived CXCL1 directly blunts T cell infiltration and reduces responsiveness to immunotherapy.