Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Pparg signaling controls bladder cancer subtype and immune exclusion

  • Tiffany Tate,
  • Tina Xiang,
  • Sarah E. Wobker,
  • Mi Zhou,
  • Xiao Chen,
  • Hyunwoo Kim,
  • Ekatherina Batourina,
  • Chyuan-Sheng Lin,
  • William Y. Kim,
  • Chao Lu,
  • James M. Mckiernan,
  • Cathy Lee Mendelsohn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26421-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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PPARg is differentially expressed in bladder cancer subtypes. Here, the authors show in mice that when an activated form of PPARg is expressed in basal bladder cells tumours do not form, however in the presence of injury the basal cells differentiate into luminal cells.