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Tumor-colonized Streptococcus mutans metabolically reprograms tumor microenvironment and promotes oral squamous cell carcinoma.
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Abstract
backgroundOral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) remains a major death cause in head and neck cancers, but the exact pathogenesis mechanisms of OSCC are largely unclear.
resultsSaliva derived from OSCC patients but not healthy controls (HCs) significantly promotes OSCC development and progression in rat models, and metabolomic analyses reveal saliva of OSCC patients but not HCs and OSCC tissues but not adjacent non-tumor tissues contain higher levels of kynurenic acid (KYNA). Furthermore, large amounts of Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) colonize in OSCC tumor tissues, and such intratumoral S. mutans mediates KYNA overproductions via utilizing its protein antigen c (PAc). KYNA shifts the cellular types in the tumor microenvironment (TME) of OSCC and predominantly expedites the expansions of S100a8
conclusionsThus, aberration of oral microbiota and intratumoral colonization of specific oral bacterium such as S. mutans may increase the production of onco-metabolites, exacerbate the oral mucosal carcinogenesis, reprogram a highly immunosuppressive TME, and promote OSCC, highlighting the potential of interfering with oral microbiota and microbial metabolism for OSCC preventions and therapeutics. Video Abstract.
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