ArticleNature communications2023
Single cell transcriptomic analyses implicate an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer liver metastasis.
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- NF-κB inducing kinase (NIK) deletion accelerates KRAS-driven pancreatic cancer in association with tumor microenvironment remodeling.Cell death & disease · 2026Article
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Abstract
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly metastatic disease refractory to all targeted and immune therapies. However, our understanding of PDAC microenvironment especially the metastatic microenvironment is very limited partly due to the inaccessibility to metastatic tumor tissues. Here, we present the single-cell transcriptomic landscape of synchronously resected PDAC primary tumors and matched liver metastases. We perform comparative analysis on both cellular composition and functional phenotype between primary and metastatic tumors. Tumor cells exhibit distinct transcriptomic profile in liver metastasis with clearly defined evolutionary routes from cancer cells in primary tumor. We also identify specific subtypes of stromal and immune cells critical to the formation of the pro-tumor microenvironment in metastatic lesions, including RGS5
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