ArticleCancers2020
Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Tumor-Derived Fibroblasts and Normal Tissue-Resident Fibroblasts Reveals Fibroblast Heterogeneity in Breast Cancer.
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- Decoding the CAF-TAM axis: multi-omics dissection and therapeutic targeting of stromal-immune crosstalk in the tumor microenvironment.Cell death & disease · 2026Review
- Single cell and spatial sequencing analysis of cancer associated fibroblasts in the brain metastasis tumor microenvironment.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Heterogeneity and plasticity of cancer-associated fibroblasts.Nature cancer · 2026Review
- Comprehensive single-cell metabolic profiling identifies targets to sensitize triple-negative breast cancer to chemo-immunotherapy.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies cancer-associated fibroblast marker genes for determining cancer subtypes in oral squamous cell carcinoma and predicting patient prognosis.Translational cancer research · 2026Article
- An Extracellular Matrix-Producing Subset of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Drives Chemoresistance in Breast Cancer via SRC Activation and G0S2 Upregulation.Cancer research · 2026Article
- Prostate Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts: A Review on CAF Functions, Heterogeneity, Resistance Mechanisms, and Future in a Chip.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- ISG15-driven immune modulation and tumor progression in breast cancer metastasis: insights from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- MicroRNA-mediated modulation of cancer-associated fibroblasts in HER2-positive breast tumor microenvironment: a comprehensive review.Discover oncology · 2026Review
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Abstract
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are a prominent stromal cell type in solid tumors and molecules secreted by CAFs play an important role in tumor progression and metastasis. CAFs coexist as heterogeneous populations with potentially different biological functions. Although CAFs are a major component of the breast cancer stroma, molecular and phenotypic heterogeneity of CAFs in breast cancer is poorly understood. In this study, we investigated CAF heterogeneity in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) using a syngeneic mouse model, BALB/c-derived 4T1 mammary tumors. Using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), we identified six CAF subpopulations in 4T1 tumors including: 1) myofibroblastic CAFs, enriched for α-smooth muscle actin and several other contractile proteins; 2) 'inflammatory' CAFs with elevated expression of inflammatory cytokines; and 3) a CAF subpopulation expressing major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II proteins that are generally expressed in antigen-presenting cells. Comparison of 4T1-derived CAFs to CAFs from pancreatic cancer revealed that these three CAF subpopulations exist in both tumor types. Interestingly, cells with inflammatory and MHC class II-expressing CAF profiles were also detected in normal breast/pancreas tissue, suggesting that these phenotypes are not tumor microenvironment-induced. This work enhances our understanding of CAF heterogeneity, and specifically targeting these CAF subpopulations could be an effective therapeutic approach for treating highly aggressive TNBCs.
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