Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

miR200-regulated CXCL12β promotes fibroblast heterogeneity and immunosuppression in ovarian cancers

  • Anne-Marie Givel,
  • Yann Kieffer,
  • Alix Scholer-Dahirel,
  • Philemon Sirven,
  • Melissa Cardon,
  • Floriane Pelon,
  • Ilaria Magagna,
  • Géraldine Gentric,
  • Ana Costa,
  • Claire Bonneau,
  • Virginie Mieulet,
  • Anne Vincent-Salomon,
  • Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03348-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are an important part of the tumor microenvironment. Here the authors characterize four subsets of CAFs across human samples of ovarian cancer subtypes and show in the mesenchymal subtype a specific CAF-S1 population that attracts immunosuppressive Tregs via CXCL12β.