ArticleCell reports. Medicine2026
Multimodal profiling of pancreatic cancer reveals a TIMP-1-dominated secretory profile determining pro-tumor immunoinstruction in human cancers.
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- Serum TIMP-1 shows a potential association with metastatic disease in patients with pancreatic cancer: a pilot analysis without a healthy control cohort.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2026Article
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The immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) fosters cancer progression, yet overarching determinants of cancer-borne immunoinstruction remain ill-defined. By multimodal integration of single-nucleus and bulk transcriptomics, proteomics, functional approaches, and clinical parameters, we discover a cancer-immunoinstructive secretory signature (CISS) across multiple human cancers-a set of inflammatory proteins correlated with poor prognosis and pro-tumorigenic TMEs. In pancreatic cancer (PC), CISS arises in pre-malignant epithelium, intensifies along transformation toward most malignant basal-like PC, and particularly correlates with suppressed natural killer (NK) cell activity. The CISS is quantitatively dominated by tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP)-1, most prevalent in TIMP-1
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