Analysis of <i>Fusobacterium</i> persistence and antibiotic response in colorectal cancer

  • Susan Bullman
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Chandra S. Pedamallu
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Ewa Sicinska
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Thomas E. Clancy
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Xiaoyang Zhang
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Diana Cai
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Donna Neuberg
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Katherine Huang
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
  • Fatima Guevara
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Timothy Nelson
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Otari Chipashvili
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Timothy Hagan
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Mark Walker
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
  • Aruna Ramachandran
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Begoña Diosdado
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Garazi Serna
    Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, CIBERONC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
  • Nuria Mulet
    Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, CIBERONC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
  • Stefania Landolfi
    Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, CIBERONC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
  • Santiago Ramon y Cajal
    Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, CIBERONC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
  • Roberta Fasani
    Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, CIBERONC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
  • Andrew J. Aguirre
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Kimmie Ng
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Elena Élez
    Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, CIBERONC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
  • Shuji Ogino
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Josep Tabernero
    Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, CIBERONC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
  • Charles S. Fuchs
    Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
  • William C. Hahn
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • Paolo Nuciforo
    Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, CIBERONC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
  • Matthew Meyerson
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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公開日
2017-12-15
DOI
  • 10.1126/science.aal5240
公開者
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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<jats:title>Bacteria go the distance in cancer</jats:title> <jats:p> The bacterial species <jats:italic>Fusobacterium nucleatum</jats:italic> is associated with a subset of human colorectal cancers, but its role in tumorigenesis is unclear. Studying patient samples, Bullman <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> found that <jats:italic>F. nucleatum</jats:italic> and certain co-occurring bacteria were present not only in primary tumors but also in distant metastases. Preliminary evidence suggests that the bacterium is localized primarily within the metastatic cancer cells rather than in the stroma. Antibiotic treatment of mice carrying xenografts of <jats:italic>F. nucleatum</jats:italic> –positive human colorectal cancer slowed tumor growth, consistent with a causal role for the bacterium in tumorigenesis. </jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , this issue p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6369" page="1443" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="358" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aal5240">1443</jats:related-article> </jats:p>

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    Science 358 (6369), 1443-1448, 2017-12-15

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