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Glioblastoma-infiltrated innate immune cells resemble M0 macrophage phenotype.

ABSTRACT: Glioblastomas are highly infiltrated by diverse immune cells, including microglia, macrophages, and myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs). Understanding the mechanisms by which glioblastoma-associated myeloid cells (GAMs) undergo metamorphosis into tumor-supportive cells, characterizing the heterogeneity of immune cell phenotypes within glioblastoma subtypes, and discovering new targets can help the design of new efficient immunotherapies. In this study, we performed a comprehensive battery of immune phenotyping, whole-genome microarray analysis, and microRNA expression profiling of GAMs with matched blood monocytes, healthy donor monocytes, normal brain microglia, nonpolarized M0 macrophages, and polarized M1, M2a, M2c macrophages. Glioblastoma patients had an elevated number of monocytes relative to healthy donors. Among CD11b⁺ cells, microglia and MDSCs constituted a higher percentage of GAMs than did macrophages. GAM profiling using flow cytometry studies revealed a continuum between the M1- and M2-like phenotype. Contrary to current dogma, GAMs exhibited distinct immunological functions, with the former aligned close to nonpolarized M0 macrophages.

SUBMITTER: Gabrusiewicz K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4784261 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Glioblastoma-infiltrated innate immune cells resemble M0 macrophage phenotype.

Gabrusiewicz Konrad K Rodriguez Benjamin B Wei Jun J Hashimoto Yuuri Y Healy Luke M LM Maiti Sourindra N SN Thomas Ginu G Zhou Shouhao S Wang Qianghu Q Elakkad Ahmed A Liebelt Brandon D BD Yaghi Nasser K NK Ezhilarasan Ravesanker R Huang Neal N Weinberg Jeffrey S JS Prabhu Sujit S SS Rao Ganesh G Sawaya Raymond R Langford Lauren A LA Bruner Janet M JM Fuller Gregory N GN Bar-Or Amit A Li Wei W Colen Rivka R RR Curran Michael A MA Bhat Krishna P KP Antel Jack P JP Cooper Laurence J LJ Sulman Erik P EP Heimberger Amy B AB

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Glioblastomas are highly infiltrated by diverse immune cells, including microglia, macrophages, and myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs). Understanding the mechanisms by which glioblastoma-associated myeloid cells (GAMs) undergo metamorphosis into tumor-supportive cells, characterizing the heterogeneity of immune cell phenotypes within glioblastoma subtypes, and discovering new targets can help the design of new efficient immunotherapies. In this study, we performed a comprehensive battery o ...[more]

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