Cancer-associated fibroblasts in the single-cell era

D Lavie, A Ben-Shmuel, N Erez, R Scherz-Shouval - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are central players in the microenvironment of solid
tumors, affecting cancer progression and metastasis. CAFs have diverse phenotypes …

[HTML][HTML] Fibroblasts in cancer: Unity in heterogeneity

Y Chhabra, AT Weeraratna - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Tumor cells do not exist in isolation in vivo, and carcinogenesis depends on the surrounding
tumor microenvironment (TME), composed of a myriad of cell types and biophysical and …

Oncogenic collagen I homotrimers from cancer cells bind to α3β1 integrin and impact tumor microbiome and immunity to promote pancreatic cancer

Y Chen, S Yang, J Tavormina, D Tampe, M Zeisberg… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
In contrast to normal type I collagen (Col1) heterotrimer (α1/α2/α1) produced by fibroblasts,
pancreatic cancer cells specifically produce unique Col1 homotrimer (α1/α1/α1). Col1 …

[HTML][HTML] Ovarian cancer mutational processes drive site-specific immune evasion

I Vázquez-García, F Uhlitz, N Ceglia, JLP Lim, M Wu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is an archetypal cancer of genomic instability,,–
patterned by distinct mutational processes,, tumour heterogeneity,–and intraperitoneal …

Tissue-resident memory and circulating T cells are early responders to pre-surgical cancer immunotherapy

AM Luoma, S Suo, Y Wang, L Gunasti, CBM Porter… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade has shown promising clinical activity. Here, we
characterized early kinetics in tumor-infiltrating and circulating immune cells in oral cancer …

Single-cell dissection of cellular and molecular features underlying human cervical squamous cell carcinoma initiation and progression

C Liu, M Zhang, X Yan, Y Ni, Y Gong, C Wang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Cervical squamous cell carcinoma (CESC) is a prototypical human cancer with well-
characterized pathological stages of initiation and progression. However, high-resolution …

Single-cell analyses implicate ascites in remodeling the ecosystems of primary and metastatic tumors in ovarian cancer

X Zheng, X Wang, X Cheng, Z Liu, Y Yin, X Li, Z Huang… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is an aggressive gynecological tumor usually diagnosed with
widespread metastases and ascites. Here, we depicted a single-cell landscape of the OC …

Mesothelial cell-derived antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblasts induce expansion of regulatory T cells in pancreatic cancer

H Huang, Z Wang, Y Zhang, RN Pradhan, D Ganguly… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recent studies have identified a unique cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) population
termed antigen-presenting CAFs (apCAFs), characterized by the expression of major …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor heterogeneity reshapes the tumor microenvironment to influence drug resistance

A Zhang, K Miao, H Sun, CX Deng - International journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumor heterogeneity is one of the hallmarks of cancer and a challenge in the field of
oncology. Tumor heterogeneity is the main cause of drug resistance, leading to therapeutic …

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the tissue architecture in human high-grade serous ovarian cancer

J Xu, Y Fang, K Chen, S Li, S Tang, Y Ren, Y Cen… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Purpose: The heterogeneity of high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is not well
studied, which severely hinders clinical treatment of HGSOC. Thus, it is necessary to …