Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Temporal profiling of the breast tumour microenvironment reveals collagen XII as a driver of metastasis

  • Michael Papanicolaou,
  • Amelia L. Parker,
  • Michelle Yam,
  • Elysse C. Filipe,
  • Sunny Z. Wu,
  • Jessica L. Chitty,
  • Kaitlin Wyllie,
  • Emmi Tran,
  • Ellie Mok,
  • Audrey Nadalini,
  • Joanna N. Skhinas,
  • Morghan C. Lucas,
  • David Herrmann,
  • Max Nobis,
  • Brooke A. Pereira,
  • Andrew M. K. Law,
  • Lesley Castillo,
  • Kendelle J. Murphy,
  • Anaiis Zaratzian,
  • Jordan F. Hastings,
  • David R. Croucher,
  • Elgene Lim,
  • Brian G. Oliver,
  • Fatima Valdes Mora,
  • Benjamin L. Parker,
  • David Gallego-Ortega,
  • Alexander Swarbrick,
  • Sandra O’Toole,
  • Paul Timpson,
  • Thomas R. Cox

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32255-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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The distribution and organisation of matrix molecules in the tumour stroma help shape solid tumour progression. Here they perform temporal proteomic profiling of the matrisome during breast cancer progression and show that collagen XII secreted from CAFs provides a pro-invasive microenvironment.