Defective TGFβ signaling in bone marrow-derived cells prevents Hedgehog-induced skin tumors

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2014-01-15
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Hedgehog (Hh) signaling in cancer cells drives changes in the tumor microenvironment that are incompletely understood. Here we report that Hh- driven tumors exhibit an increase in myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) and a decrease in T cells, indicative of an immune suppressive tumor microenvironment. This change was associated with activated TGFβ signaling in several cell types in BCCs. We determined that TGFβ signaling in bone marrow (BM)-derived cells, not keratinocytes, regulates MDSC and promotes tumor development. Tgfbr2 deficiency in the BM-derived cells also reduced the size of previously developed tumors in mice. We identified CCL2 as the major chemokine attracting MDSC to tumor, whose expression was Tgfbr2-dependent, whereas its receptor CCR2 was highly expressed in MDSC population. CCL2 alone was sufficient to induce migration of MDSC. Moreover, the CCR2 inhibitors prevented MDSC migration towards skin cells in vitro, reduced MDSC accumulation and Hh signaling-driven tumor development in mice. Our results reveal a signaling network critical for Hh signaling in cancer cells to establish an effective immune suppressive microenvironment during tumor development.

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Fan, Q., Gu, D., Liu, H., Yang, L., Zhang, X., Yoder, M. C., … Xie, J. (2014). Defective TGFβ signaling in bone marrow-derived cells prevents Hedgehog-induced skin tumors. Cancer Research, 74(2), 471–483. http://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-2134-T
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