Cancer and the gut microbiota: An unexpected link

Laurence Zitvogel; Lorenzo Galluzzi; Sophie Viaud; Marie Vétizou; Romain Daillère; Miriam Merad; Guido Kroemer

doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3010473

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Cancer and the gut microbiota: An unexpected link

Laurence Zitvogel¹,²,*,†,
Lorenzo Galluzzi¹,³,⁴,⁵,*,
Sophie Viaud¹,²,
Marie Vétizou¹,²,
Romain Daillère¹,²,
Miriam Merad⁶ and
Guido Kroemer³,⁴,⁵,⁷,⁸

¹Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, F-94805 Villejuif, France.
²INSERM, U1015, CICBT507, F-94805 Villejuif, France.
³Equipe 11 Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, F-75006 Paris, France.
⁴Université Paris Descartes/Paris V, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75006 Paris, France.
⁵INSERM, U1138, F-75006 Paris, France.
⁶Department of Oncological Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
⁷Pôle de Biologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou F-75015, AP-HP, Paris, France.
⁸Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

↵†Corresponding author. E-mail: laurence.zitvogel{at}gustaveroussy.fr

↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Science Translational Medicine 21 Jan 2015:
Vol. 7, Issue 271, pp. 271ps1
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3010473

Laurence Zitvogel

1Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

2INSERM, U1015, CICBT507, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

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For correspondence: laurence.zitvogel@gustaveroussy.fr

Lorenzo Galluzzi

1Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

3Equipe 11 Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, F-75006 Paris, France.

4Université Paris Descartes/Paris V, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75006 Paris, France.

5INSERM, U1138, F-75006 Paris, France.

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Sophie Viaud

1Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

2INSERM, U1015, CICBT507, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

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Marie Vétizou

1Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

2INSERM, U1015, CICBT507, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

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Romain Daillère

1Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

2INSERM, U1015, CICBT507, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

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Miriam Merad

6Department of Oncological Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

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Guido Kroemer

3Equipe 11 Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, F-75006 Paris, France.

4Université Paris Descartes/Paris V, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75006 Paris, France.

5INSERM, U1138, F-75006 Paris, France.

7Pôle de Biologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou F-75015, AP-HP, Paris, France.

8Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, F-94805 Villejuif, France.

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