Communications Biology (Jul 2022)

Mutant p53 drives an immune cold tumor immune microenvironment in oral squamous cell carcinoma

  • Yewen Shi,
  • Tongxin Xie,
  • Bingbing Wang,
  • Rong Wang,
  • Yu Cai,
  • Bo Yuan,
  • Frederico O. Gleber-Netto,
  • Xiangjun Tian,
  • Alanis E. Rodriguez-Rosario,
  • Abdullah A. Osman,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Curtis R. Pickering,
  • Xiaoyong Ren,
  • Andrew G. Sikora,
  • Jeffrey N. Myers,
  • Roberto Rangel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03675-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Oral squamous cell carcinoma models are presented with defined Trp53 mutations associated with immune checkpoint inhibitor responsiveness, e.g. T122N amino acid change of Tp53 promotes a cold TME enriched with immunosuppressive M2 macrophages resistant to ICI therapy.