Stromal FOXF2 suppresses prostate cancer progression and metastasis by enhancing antitumor immunity

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Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) mediate an immunosuppressive effect, but the underlying mechanism remains incompletely defined. Here we show that increasing prostatic stromal Foxf2 suppresses the growth and progression of both syngeneic and autochthonous mouse prostate cancer models in an immunocompetent context. Mechanistically, Foxf2 moderately attenuates the CAF phenotype and transcriptionally downregulates Cxcl5, which diminish the immunosuppressive myeloid cells and enhance T cell cytotoxicity. Increasing prostatic stromal Foxf2 sensitizes prostate cancer to the immune checkpoint blockade therapies. Augmenting lung stromal Foxf2 also mediates an immunosuppressive milieu and inhibits lung colonization of prostate cancer. FOXF2 is expressed higher in the stroma of human transition zone (TZ) than peripheral zone (PZ) prostate. The stromal FOXF2 expression level in primary prostate cancers inversely correlates with the Gleason grade. Our study establishes Foxf2 as a stromal transcription factor modulating the tumor immune microenvironment and potentially explains why cancers are relatively rare and indolent in the TZ prostate.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Nature communications - 13(2022), 1 vom: 11. Nov., Seite 6828

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jia, Deyong [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Zhicheng [VerfasserIn]
Kwon, Oh-Joon [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Xing [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yiqun [VerfasserIn]
Yi, Mingyang [VerfasserIn]
Roudier, Martine P [VerfasserIn]
Regier, Mary C [VerfasserIn]
Dumpit, Ruth [VerfasserIn]
Nelson, Peter S [VerfasserIn]
Headley, Mark [VerfasserIn]
True, Lawrence [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Daniel W [VerfasserIn]
Morrissey, Colm [VerfasserIn]
Creighton, Chad J [VerfasserIn]
Xin, Li [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

FOXF2 protein, human
Forkhead Transcription Factors
Foxf2 protein, mouse
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

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Date Completed 17.11.2022

Date Revised 23.03.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41467-022-34665-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348827946