Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Cancer cell survival depends on collagen uptake into tumor-associated stroma

  • Kuo-Sheng Hsu,
  • James M. Dunleavey,
  • Christopher Szot,
  • Liping Yang,
  • Mary Beth Hilton,
  • Karen Morris,
  • Steven Seaman,
  • Yang Feng,
  • Emily M. Lutz,
  • Robert Koogle,
  • Francesco Tomassoni-Ardori,
  • Saurabh Saha,
  • Xiaoyan M. Zhang,
  • Enrique Zudaire,
  • Pradip Bajgain,
  • Joshua Rose,
  • Zhongyu Zhu,
  • Dimiter S. Dimitrov,
  • Frank Cuttitta,
  • Nancy J. Emenaker,
  • Lino Tessarollo,
  • Brad St. Croix

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34643-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Collagen can be a metabolic source to fuel cancer growth. Here the authors show that cell surface protein TEM8 mediates the binding and uptake of collagen in stromal cells and these cells processed the collagen to glutamine, providing an alternative energy source for tumour cells to grow.