Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Loss of fragile site-associated tumor suppressor promotes antitumor immunity via macrophage polarization

  • Lijuan Zhang,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Jieyou Zhang,
  • Jinrong Zhu,
  • Qing Xi,
  • Huafeng Wang,
  • Zimu Zhang,
  • Yingnan Cheng,
  • Guangze Yang,
  • Hongkun Liu,
  • Xiangdong Guo,
  • Dongmei Zhou,
  • Zhenyi Xue,
  • Yan Li,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Yurong Da,
  • Li Liu,
  • Zhinan Yin,
  • Zhi Yao,
  • Rongxin Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24610-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The role of common fragile site associated genes such as FATS in the immune system is unclear. Here the authors show that deletion of Fats in a mouse tumour model leads to reduced tumour growth and change of macrophage phenotype from an M2-like to M1-like function.