Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

TGFβ-blockade uncovers stromal plasticity in tumors by revealing the existence of a subset of interferon-licensed fibroblasts

  • Angelo L. Grauel,
  • Beverly Nguyen,
  • David Ruddy,
  • Tyler Laszewski,
  • Stephanie Schwartz,
  • Jonathan Chang,
  • Julie Chen,
  • Michelle Piquet,
  • Marc Pelletier,
  • Zheng Yan,
  • Nathaniel D. Kirkpatrick,
  • Jincheng Wu,
  • Antoine deWeck,
  • Markus Riester,
  • Matt Hims,
  • Felipe Correa Geyer,
  • Joel Wagner,
  • Kenzie MacIsaac,
  • James Deeds,
  • Rohan Diwanji,
  • Pushpa Jayaraman,
  • Yenyen Yu,
  • Quincey Simmons,
  • Shaobu Weng,
  • Alina Raza,
  • Brian Minie,
  • Mirek Dostalek,
  • Pavitra Chikkegowda,
  • Vera Ruda,
  • Oleg Iartchouk,
  • Naiyan Chen,
  • Raphael Thierry,
  • Joseph Zhou,
  • Iulian Pruteanu-Malinici,
  • Claire Fabre,
  • Jeffrey A. Engelman,
  • Glenn Dranoff,
  • Viviana Cremasco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19920-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Understanding the tumor microenviroment is important before it can be exploited therapeutically. Here, the authors use single cell sequencing to study stromal cells in mouse tumors and identify a subset of interferon-licensed cancer associated fibroblasts that appear after anti-TGFβ treatment.