Metabolically activated adipose tissue macrophages link obesity to triple-negative breast cancer
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- Payal Tiwari
- Committee on Cancer Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1
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- Ariane Blank
- Committee on Cancer Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1
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- Chang Cui
- Committee on Cancer Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1
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- Kelly Q. Schoenfelt
- Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2
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- Guolin Zhou
- Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2
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- Yanfei Xu
- Department of Surgery and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 3
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- Galina Khramtsova
- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 4
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- Funmi Olopade
- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 4
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- Ajay M. Shah
- School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences, King’s College, London British Hearth Foundation Centre, London, UK 6
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- Seema A. Khan
- Department of Surgery and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 3
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- Marsha Rich Rosner
- Committee on Cancer Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1
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- Lev Becker
- Committee on Cancer Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1
説明
<jats:p>Obesity is associated with increased incidence and severity of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC); however, mechanisms underlying this relationship are incompletely understood. Here, we show that obesity reprograms mammary adipose tissue macrophages to a pro-inflammatory metabolically activated phenotype (MMe) that alters the niche to support tumor formation. Unlike pro-inflammatory M1 macrophages that antagonize tumorigenesis, MMe macrophages are pro-tumorigenic and represent the dominant macrophage phenotype in mammary adipose tissue of obese humans and mice. MMe macrophages release IL-6 in an NADPH oxidase 2 (NOX2)–dependent manner, which signals through glycoprotein 130 (GP130) on TNBC cells to promote stem-like properties including tumor formation. Deleting Nox2 in myeloid cells or depleting GP130 in TNBC cells attenuates obesity-augmented TNBC stemness. Moreover, weight loss reverses the effects of obesity on MMe macrophage inflammation and TNBC tumor formation. Our studies implicate MMe macrophage accumulation in mammary adipose tissue as a mechanism for promoting TNBC stemness and tumorigenesis during obesity.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Journal of Experimental Medicine
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Journal of Experimental Medicine 216 (6), 1345-1358, 2019-05-03
Rockefeller University Press