Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Immunosuppressive niche engineering at the onset of human colorectal cancer

  • Chandler D. Gatenbee,
  • Ann-Marie Baker,
  • Ryan O. Schenck,
  • Maximilian Strobl,
  • Jeffrey West,
  • Margarida P. Neves,
  • Sara Yakub Hasan,
  • Eszter Lakatos,
  • Pierre Martinez,
  • William C. H. Cross,
  • Marnix Jansen,
  • Manuel Rodriguez-Justo,
  • Christopher J. Whelan,
  • Andrea Sottoriva,
  • Simon Leedham,
  • Mark Robertson-Tessi,
  • Trevor A. Graham,
  • Alexander R. A. Anderson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29027-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Integration of mathematical modeling, ecological analyses of patient biopsies, and neoantigen heterogeneity suggests recruitment of immunosuppressive cells is key to initializing transformation from adenoma to carcinoma in human colorectal cancer.