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Pharmacological Inhibition and Genetic Knockdown of BCL9 Modulate the Cellular Landscape of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) exert a key role in cancer progression and liver metastasis. They are activated in the tumor microenvironment (TME), but their prometastatic mechanisms are not defined. CAFs are abundant in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, it is not clear whether they are raised...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8131873/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34026600 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.603556 |
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author | Yang, Mengxuan Wei, Zhuang Feng, Mei Zhu, Yuanyuan Chen, Yong Zhu, Di |
author_facet | Yang, Mengxuan Wei, Zhuang Feng, Mei Zhu, Yuanyuan Chen, Yong Zhu, Di |
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description | Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) exert a key role in cancer progression and liver metastasis. They are activated in the tumor microenvironment (TME), but their prometastatic mechanisms are not defined. CAFs are abundant in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, it is not clear whether they are raised from local tissue-resident fibroblasts or pericryptal fibroblasts and distant fibroblast precursors, and whether they may stimulate metastasis-promoting communication. B-cell lymphoma 9/B-cell lymphoma 9-like (BCL9/BCL9L) is the key transcription cofactor of β-catenin. We studied the TME of CRC with single-cell sequencing and consequently found that Bcl9 depletion caused a pro-tumor effect of CAFs, while inhibition of abnormal activation of Wnt/β-catenin signal through Bcl9 depletion benefited T-cell–mediated antitumor immune responses. We also identified and evaluated four types of CAFs in CRC with liver metastasis. In summary, we demonstrate cell type landscape and transcription difference upon BCL9 suppression in CAFs, as well as how CAF affects cancer associated immune surveillance by inhibition of Wnt signaling. Targeting the Wnt signaling pathway via modulating CAF may be a potential therapeutic approach. |
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spelling | pubmed-81318732021-05-20 Pharmacological Inhibition and Genetic Knockdown of BCL9 Modulate the Cellular Landscape of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer Yang, Mengxuan Wei, Zhuang Feng, Mei Zhu, Yuanyuan Chen, Yong Zhu, Di Front Oncol Oncology Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) exert a key role in cancer progression and liver metastasis. They are activated in the tumor microenvironment (TME), but their prometastatic mechanisms are not defined. CAFs are abundant in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, it is not clear whether they are raised from local tissue-resident fibroblasts or pericryptal fibroblasts and distant fibroblast precursors, and whether they may stimulate metastasis-promoting communication. B-cell lymphoma 9/B-cell lymphoma 9-like (BCL9/BCL9L) is the key transcription cofactor of β-catenin. We studied the TME of CRC with single-cell sequencing and consequently found that Bcl9 depletion caused a pro-tumor effect of CAFs, while inhibition of abnormal activation of Wnt/β-catenin signal through Bcl9 depletion benefited T-cell–mediated antitumor immune responses. We also identified and evaluated four types of CAFs in CRC with liver metastasis. In summary, we demonstrate cell type landscape and transcription difference upon BCL9 suppression in CAFs, as well as how CAF affects cancer associated immune surveillance by inhibition of Wnt signaling. Targeting the Wnt signaling pathway via modulating CAF may be a potential therapeutic approach. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8131873/ /pubmed/34026600 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.603556 Text en Copyright © 2021 Yang, Wei, Feng, Zhu, Chen and Zhu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Oncology Yang, Mengxuan Wei, Zhuang Feng, Mei Zhu, Yuanyuan Chen, Yong Zhu, Di Pharmacological Inhibition and Genetic Knockdown of BCL9 Modulate the Cellular Landscape of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer |
title | Pharmacological Inhibition and Genetic Knockdown of BCL9 Modulate the Cellular Landscape of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer |
title_full | Pharmacological Inhibition and Genetic Knockdown of BCL9 Modulate the Cellular Landscape of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer |
title_fullStr | Pharmacological Inhibition and Genetic Knockdown of BCL9 Modulate the Cellular Landscape of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Pharmacological Inhibition and Genetic Knockdown of BCL9 Modulate the Cellular Landscape of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer |
title_short | Pharmacological Inhibition and Genetic Knockdown of BCL9 Modulate the Cellular Landscape of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer |
title_sort | pharmacological inhibition and genetic knockdown of bcl9 modulate the cellular landscape of cancer-associated fibroblasts in the tumor-immune microenvironment of colorectal cancer |
topic | Oncology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8131873/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34026600 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.603556 |
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