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KRASG12D drives immunosuppression in lung adenocarcinoma through paracrine signaling.

Emily L Lasse-Opsahl, Ivana Barravecchia, Elyse McLintock, Jennifer M Lee, Sarah F Ferris, Carlos E Espinoza, Rachael Hinshaw, Sophia Cavanaugh, Marzia Robotti, Lily Rober and 7 more

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. KRAS Inhibitors in Pancreas Cancer: Facts and Hopes about the Immunotherapy We Have All Been Waiting for.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Emily L Lasse-OpsahlGraduate Program in Cancer Biology.
Ivana BarravecchiaDepartment of Radiology, and.
Elyse McLintockDepartment of Radiology, and.
Jennifer M LeeDepartment of Radiology, and.
Sarah F FerrisDepartment of Radiology, and.
Carlos E EspinozaDepartment of Surgery, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Rachael HinshawGraduate Program in Cancer Biology.
Sophia CavanaughDepartment of Radiology, and.
Marzia RobottiDepartment of Radiology, and.
Lily RoberDepartment of Radiology, and.
Kristee BrownDepartment of Surgery, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Kristena Y AbdelmalakDepartment of Radiology, and.
Craig J GalbanDepartment of Radiology, and.
Timothy L FrankelDepartment of Surgery, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Yaqing ZhangDepartment of Surgery, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Marina Pasca di MaglianoDepartment of Surgery, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Stefanie GalbanDepartment of Radiology, and.

Funding

XenograftP30CA046592 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Alexey I Nesvizhskii · 1988 to 2026
$178.2M
Regional Pilot And Feasibility Study Grants ProgramP30DK020572 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Mehboob A Hussain · 2013 to 2026
$24.3M
Tumor Microenvironment Crosstalk Drives Early Lesions in Pancreatic CancerU54CA274371 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI ANIRBAN MAITRA · 2022 to 2026
$9.5M
Training Program in Tumor MicroenvironmentT32CA009676 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Maria G Castro, Analisa Virginia DiFeo · 1992 to 2026
$7.3M
Fibroblast orchestration of the immune response in pancreatic cancerU01CA274154 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Howard C. Crawford, Timothy Louis Frankel · 2022 to 2026
$4.2M
Targeting the fibroblast-immune cell crosstalk to relieve immune suppression in the pancreatic cancer microenvironmentR01CA260752 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI PASCA DI MAGLIANO, MARINA · 2022 to 2025
$2.8M
Dissecting the role of Notch signaling in the pancreatic cancer microenvironment.R01CA271510 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Filip Bednar, Marina Pasca Di Magliano · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
Interrupting Cellular Crosstalk in the Immunosuppressive Microenvironment of Pancreas CancerU01CA224145 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CRAWFORD, HOWARD C., PASCA DI MAGLIANO, MARINA · 2017 to 2021
$2.6M
The Role of the Tumor Microenvironment in Resistance to Oncogenic KRAS Inhibition in Lung CancerR21CA286372 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI GALBAN, STEFANIE, PASCA DI MAGLIANO, MARINA · 2024 to 2025
$401k
Targeting the Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment in Pancreatic CancerR50CA232985 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ZHANG, YAQING · 2018 to 2022
$331k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA046592NCI NIH HHS R01 CA260752NCI NIH HHS R01 CA271510NCI NIH HHS R21 CA286372NCI NIH HHS R50 CA232985NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009676NCI NIH HHS U01 CA224145NCI NIH HHS U01 CA274154NCI NIH HHS U54 CA274371NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK020572
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. New targeted therapies against the once-deemed undruggable oncogenic KRAS are changing current therapeutic paradigms. However, resistance to targeted KRAS inhibitors almost inevitably occurs; resistance can be driven by tumor cell-intrinsic changes or by changes in the microenvironment. Here, we utilized a genetically engineered mouse model of KRASG12D-driven lung cancer that allows for inducible and reversible expression of the oncogene: activation of oncogenic KRASG12D induces tumor growth; conversely, inactivation of KRASG12D causes tumor regression. We showed that in addition to regulating cancer cell growth and survival, oncogenic KRAS regulated the transcriptional status of cancer-associated fibroblasts and macrophages in this model. Utilizing ex vivo approaches, we showed that secreted factors from cancer cells induced the expression of multiple cytokines in lung fibroblasts, and in turn drove expression of immunosuppressive factors, such as arginase 1, in macrophages. In summary, fibroblasts emerged as a key source of immune regulatory signals, and a potential therapeutic target for improving the efficacy of KRAS inhibitors in lung cancer.

Indexed as

Adenocarcinoma of LungLung NeoplasmsParacrine CommunicationProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)Tumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsCancer-Associated FibroblastsCell Line, TumorDisease Models, AnimalHumansImmune ToleranceMacrophagesMiceMice, TransgenicHras protein, mouseKRAS protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)Cellular immune responseLung cancerOncogenesOncology

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PMID39782689
PMCPMC11721295

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