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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Erythroid progenitor cell-mediated spleen-tumor interaction deteriorates cancer immunity.

Zhi-Zhong Wu, Wei-Wei Deng, Su-Wen Zhu, Wen-Da Wang, Shuo Wang, Qi-Chao Yang, Hao Li, Liang Mao, WanJun Chen, Zhi-Jun Sun

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Zhi-Zhong Wu *State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Wei-Wei Deng *State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Su-Wen ZhuState Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Wen-Da WangState Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Shuo WangState Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Qi-Chao YangState Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Hao LiState Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
Liang MaoState Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
WanJun ChenMucosal Immunology Section, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9335-2114
Zhi-Jun SunState Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Stomatology, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0932-8013

Funding

MOST | National Key Research and Development Program of China (NKPs) 2022YFC2504200MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 82072996MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 82103336MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 82273202MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 82472818
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding both local and systemic immunity is essential to optimizing the effectiveness of immunotherapy. However, the dynamic alterations in systemic immunity during tumor development are yet to be clearly defined. Here, we identified a previously unrecognized connection that bridges the interaction between the spleen and tumor through erythroid progenitor cells (EPCs), which suppress tumor immunity and promote tumor progression. We performed the single-cell RNA-seq and RNA-seq to demonstrate the presence of EPCs and identify the characteristic and an immunomodulatory role of EPCs during tumor progression. These tumor-hijacked EPCs proliferate in situ in spleens and impaired systemic and local antitumor response through the interaction between tumor and spleen. Specifically, the splenic CD45

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Erythroid Precursor CellsNeoplasmsSpleenAnimalsB7-H1 AntigenCell Line, TumorFemaleHumansImmunotherapyLeukocyte Common AntigensMiceMice, Inbred C57BLB7-H1 AntigenLeukocyte Common Antigenserythroid progenitor cellsimmune evasionspleen–tumor interactionsystemic immunitytumor microenvironment

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PMID40014568
PMCPMC11892600

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