Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

CD36-mediated metabolic crosstalk between tumor cells and macrophages affects liver metastasis

  • Ping Yang,
  • Hong Qin,
  • Yiyu Li,
  • Anhua Xiao,
  • Enze Zheng,
  • Han Zeng,
  • Chunxiao Su,
  • Xiaoqing Luo,
  • Qiannan Lu,
  • Meng Liao,
  • Lei Zhao,
  • Li Wei,
  • Zac Varghese,
  • John F. Moorhead,
  • Yaxi Chen,
  • Xiong Z. Ruan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33349-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Macrophage-mediated immune suppression contributes to poor outcome in liver metastasis. Here the authors show that CD36-expressing metastasis associated macrophages engulf tumor cell-derived extracellular vesicles enriched in long-chain fatty acids, acquiring a pro-tumorigenic phenotype in a preclinical liver metastasis model.