Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Tumor-associated B-cells induce tumor heterogeneity and therapy resistance

  • Rajasekharan Somasundaram,
  • Gao Zhang,
  • Mizuho Fukunaga-Kalabis,
  • Michela Perego,
  • Clemens Krepler,
  • Xiaowei Xu,
  • Christine Wagner,
  • Denitsa Hristova,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Tian Tian,
  • Zhi Wei,
  • Qin Liu,
  • Kanika Garg,
  • Johannes Griss,
  • Rufus Hards,
  • Margarita Maurer,
  • Christine Hafner,
  • Marius Mayerhöfer,
  • Georgios Karanikas,
  • Ahmad Jalili,
  • Verena Bauer-Pohl,
  • Felix Weihsengruber,
  • Klemens Rappersberger,
  • Josef Koller,
  • Roland Lang,
  • Courtney Hudgens,
  • Guo Chen,
  • Michael Tetzlaff,
  • Lawrence Wu,
  • Dennie Tompers Frederick,
  • Richard A. Scolyer,
  • Georgina V. Long,
  • Manashree Damle,
  • Courtney Ellingsworth,
  • Leon Grinman,
  • Harry Choi,
  • Brian J. Gavin,
  • Margaret Dunagin,
  • Arjun Raj,
  • Nathalie Scholler,
  • Laura Gross,
  • Marilda Beqiri,
  • Keiryn Bennett,
  • Ian Watson,
  • Helmut Schaider,
  • Michael A. Davies,
  • Jennifer Wargo,
  • Brian J. Czerniecki,
  • Lynn Schuchter,
  • Dorothee Herlyn,
  • Keith Flaherty,
  • Meenhard Herlyn,
  • Stephan N. Wagner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00452-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Resistance to BRAFV600E inhibitors often occurs in melanoma patients. Here, the authors describe a potential mechanism of acquired drug resistance mediated by tumor-associated B cells-derived IGF-1.