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The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type–specific intracellular bacteria
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Profiling tumor bacteria: Bacteria are well-known residents in human tumors, but whether their presence is advantageous to the tumors or to the bacteria themselves has been unclear. As an initial step toward addressing this question, Nejman et al. produced an exhaustive catalog of the bacteria present in more than 1500 human tumors representing seven different tumor types (see the Perspective by Atreya and Turnbaugh). They found that the bacteria within tumors were localized within both cancer cells and immune cells and that the bacterial composition varied according to tumor type. Certain biologically plausible associations were identified. For example, breast cancer subtypes characterized by increased oxidative stress were enriched in bacteria that produce mycothiol, which can detoxify reactive oxygen species. Science , this issue p. 973 ; see also p. 938
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“Pathological examination of tumor cores indicated that LPS and bacterial 16S rRNA were localized mainly in cancer cells and immune cells”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Intratumor bacteria are mostly intracellular and are present in both cancer and immune cells
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“Levels of bacterial DNA in all tumor types were significantly higher than those found in both DNA extraction and paraffin controls (Fig. 1B; P value <10−10 for each tumor type, Wilcoxon rank sum test).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Bacterial DNA, RNA, and lipopolysaccharide are present in many human solid tumors
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“Combined LPS fluorescence staining and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging of the same cells clearly demonstrated the intracellular localization of bacteria in all four tumors”
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“We found that different cancer types vary in the proportion of tumors that are positive for bacterial DNA, ranging from only 14.3% in melanoma to >60% in breast, pancreatic, and bone tumors.”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Bacterial DNA, RNA, and lipopolysaccharide are present in many human solid tumors
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“LTA-positive bacteria were almost exclusively found in macrophages, as detected by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining and verified by immunofluorescence (IF) for CD68”
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“Although the intensity of bacterial LPS and LTA staining was very strong in CD45+/CD68+ cells, bacterial 16S rRNA was only rarely found in macrophages by FISH”
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“typical bacterial rods or cocci were only rarely detected (in 3 of 426 cores).”
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“LTA was rarely detected in cancer cells or in CD45+/CD68− immune cells”
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“Bacterial DNA was also detected in solid tumors that have no direct connection with the external environment, such as ovarian cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), and bone cancer.”
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“In many cases, the bacteria were found in close proximity to the nuclear membrane.”
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“Bacterial LPS and 16S rRNA were frequently detected in all tumor types (Fig. 1C) and demonstrated a similar spatial distribution”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Bacterial DNA, RNA, and lipopolysaccharide are present in many human solid tumors
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“In cancer cells, bacterial 16S rRNA was detected mostly in the cytoplasm, whereas LPS staining was associated with both the cytoplasm and the nucleus”
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“LTA was detected mainly in melanomas and was largely absent in other tumor types.”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Bacterial DNA, RNA, and lipopolysaccharide are present in many human solid tumors
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“Fifteen isolated species (40.5%) were detected in our breast tumor cohort but did not pass all filters.”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > The microbiome of breast tumors is richer and more diverse than that of other tumor types
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“An average of 16.4 bacterial species were detected in any single breast tumor sample, whereas the average was <9 in all other tumor types (P value <10−17 for each tumor type, Wilcoxon rank sum test”
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“Although species belonging to the Proteobacteria and Firmicutes phyla accounted for most of the detected bacterial sequences in all cancer types, the Proteobacteria to Firmicutes (P/F) ratio appears to vary between tumor types”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Different tumor types have distinct microbial compositions
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“>1000 colonies were grown per tumor from four of the tumors, and 37 colonies were grown from one tumor.”
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“although the overall microbial composition of the different tumor types was relatively similar to their NAT microbiome (Fig. 4F), we also detected bacteria with a different prevalence in tumors and in their NAT”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Different tumor types have distinct microbial compositions
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“We also found that bacterial load and richness were higher in the breast tumor samples than those found in normal breast samples from healthy subjects.”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > The microbiome of breast tumors is richer and more diverse than that of other tumor types
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“Whole-genome sequencing of 474 representative colonies from all five tumors demonstrated that they represented 37 different bacterial species, 11 of which (29.7%) are bacteria that were previously detected as hits in our breast tumor cohort”
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“In contrast, Proteobacteria dominated the microbiome of pancreatic cancer, similarly to the normal duodenal microbiome makeup (16, 17, 48, 49).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Different tumor types have distinct microbial compositions
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“Bacteria expressing these functions are found mainly in the Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Cyanobacteria phyla, and they are depleted from the Firmicutes phylum”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Metabolic functions encoded by intratumor bacteria are associated with clinical features of certain tumor subtypes
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- Rests on an assumption: Predicted MetaCyc pathways from 16S sequences accurately represent the functional capabilities of intratumor bacteria.
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“Taxa that were more abundant in tumors of responders included Clostridium, whereas Gardnerella vaginalis was more abundant in tumors of nonresponders.”
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“Intratumor bacteria have been reported in many tumor types (2-19)”
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“This observation, combined with the fact that no cell wall polymer LTA was detected in cancer cells—despite the detection of many Gram-positive bacteria in human tumors by 16S rDNA sequencing—suggests that bacteria in tumor cells may have altered their envelope, perhaps leading to a cell wall–deficient state, akin to L-forms (41).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Intratumor bacteria are mostly intracellular and are present in both cancer and immune cells
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“it is also important to use mechanical tissue shearing in the DNA isolation protocol to ensure the complete recovery of DNA from within the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria—a step not included in most standard DNA isolation protocols (6, 7).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Bacterial DNA, RNA, and lipopolysaccharide are present in many human solid tumors
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- Not checked yetcites [6] Greathouse KL, White JR, Vargas AJ, Bliskovsky VV, Beck JA, von Muhlinen N, Polley EC, Bowman ED, Khan MA, Robles AI, Cooks T, Ryan BM, Padgett N, Dzutsev AH, Trinchieri G, Pineda MA, Bilke S, Meltzer PS, Hokenstad AN, Stickrod TM, Walther-Antonio MR, Earl JP, Mell JC, Krol JE, Balashov SV, Bhat AS, Ehrlich GD, Valm A, Deming C, Conlan S, Oh J, Segre JA, Harris CC, Interaction between the microbiome and TP53 in human lung cancer. Genome Biol. 19, 123 (2018).doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1501-6 pmid:30143034 30143034 PMC6109311 source
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“we introduced 643 negative controls that were processed with the samples, including 437 DNA extraction controls and 206 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) no-template controls (NTCs).”
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“It has been previously demonstrated that the processing of bacterial LPS by macrophages is very slow; therefore, LPS can be found in these cells months after the bacteria were ingested and processed (38).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Intratumor bacteria are mostly intracellular and are present in both cancer and immune cells
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Forestier C, Moreno E, Pizarro-Cerda J, Gorvel JP, Lysosomal accumulation and recycling of lipopolysaccharide to the cell surface of murine macrophages, an in vitro and in vivo study. J. Immunol 162, 6784– 6791 (1999). pmid:10352299 10352299 source
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“we also included 168 paraffin-only samples taken from the margins of the paraffin blocks (without tissue) that were used in the study”
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“The gut microbiome has been shown to have multiple effects on tumor biology, such as the transformation process, tumor progression, and the response to anticancer therapies including immunotherapy (21-29).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Abstract
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“To control for nonspecific staining, IHC-negative controls (no primary antibody) and FISH-negative controls (nonspecific complement probe) were also applied to the samples”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Bacterial DNA, RNA, and lipopolysaccharide are present in many human solid tumors
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“Moreover, it can be applied to partially degraded DNA originating from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumors.”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > The microbiome of breast tumors is richer and more diverse than that of other tumor types
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“we applied a strict set of six filters to control for potential sources of contamination.”
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“Although D-alanine is used by bacteria to generate peptidoglycan, an essential component of the bacterial cell wall, it is not used by mammalian cells (fig. S14) (47).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > The microbiome of breast tumors is richer and more diverse than that of other tumor types
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“By amplifying 68% of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene using short amplicons, this method increases the coverage and resolution of the detection of bacterial species compared with the widely used V4 or V3-V4 amplification”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > The microbiome of breast tumors is richer and more diverse than that of other tumor types
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“Bone collagen is a main source of hydroxyproline, and many bone pathologies, like bone tumors, have been shown to result in elevated hydroxyproline levels (53).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Metabolic functions encoded by intratumor bacteria are associated with clinical features of certain tumor subtypes
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“Cell wall–deficient bacteria are known to be found exclusively inside cells, where their morphology transforms into less-defined structures of highly variable sizes and shapes (42, 43).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Intratumor bacteria are mostly intracellular and are present in both cancer and immune cells
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“Thirty-nine samples and 10 controls that had fewer than 1000 normalized reads were discarded from further analysis”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > The microbiome of breast tumors is richer and more diverse than that of other tumor types
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“Because ER+ breast tumors are known to have increased oxidative stress compared with ER− tumors (57)”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Metabolic functions encoded by intratumor bacteria are associated with clinical features of certain tumor subtypes
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“we hypothesize that bacteria with the ability to synthesize mycothiol can better survive in the ER+ tumor microenvironment.”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Metabolic functions encoded by intratumor bacteria are associated with clinical features of certain tumor subtypes
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“Intratumor bacteria may also arise from the NAT, which can explain the high similarity we found between the tumor microbiome and its NAT microbiome.”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Discussion
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“We took multiple measures to minimize and control for contamination (supplementary note)”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Discussion
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“As tumors develop, their disorganized, leaky vasculature may allow circulating bacteria to enter, and the immunosuppressed environment may provide a refuge for them (61, 62).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Discussion
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“Arsenic is a Group 1 carcinogen that can increase the risk of breast cancer (54) and has been shown to induce expression of the estrogen receptor in human breast cancer (55).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Metabolic functions encoded by intratumor bacteria are associated with clinical features of certain tumor subtypes
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“As tumors develop, their disorganized, leaky vasculature may allow circulating bacteria to enter, and the immunosuppressed environment may provide a refuge for them (61, 62).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Discussion
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“This is consistent with a recent publication that demonstrated that reexamination of whole-genome and whole-transcriptome sequencing data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) for microbial sequences identified associations between different cancer types and specific microbiota (19).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Discussion
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“This observation is somewhat analogous to the relative stability of the human gut microbiome functions compared with its microbial taxa (58, 59).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Discussion
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“The enrichment for bacteria with the predicted capability to degrade cigarette smoke metabolites in lung tumors may suggest that high levels of these metabolites create a preferred niche for bacteria that can use these metabolites.”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Metabolic functions encoded by intratumor bacteria are associated with clinical features of certain tumor subtypes
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“we used the PICRUSt2 tool (50-52) to map the 16S sequences to the genes and pathways that these bacterial species may harbor”
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Patients' smoking status was accurately recorded.
“we compared the bacterial functions found in non–small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) of 100 current smokers with those in NSCLCs of 43 people who had never smoked (never-smokers).”
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The classification of melanoma patients as responders or nonresponders to immune checkpoint inhibitors is accurate.
“we compared metastatic melanomas from patients who responded to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) (n = 29) with those from patients who did not respond (n = 48).”
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“A growing body of evidence has demonstrated the presence of intratumoral microbes, with studies using either metagenomics or culturomics suggesting the presence of intracellular,14,38,102,103 cancer type-specific,14,104–106 spatially heterogeneous,14,103,107 metabolically active,14,38,49,108,109 pro-metastatic,102,103,110,111 and immunoreactive38,60,112–115 communities of tumor-resident bacteria,”
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“many of these breast cancer GOMS components (V. parvula, B. uniformis and E. clostridioformis, among others) had previously been identified in an analysis of the breast cancer microbiome comprising >9,000 species after filtering for artefactual contaminants69.”
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“While the overall bacterial load was similar in responders and non-responders, multiple bacterial taxa had significantly different representation, notably Veillonellaceae and Gammaproteobacteria were associated with resistance, as already identified in GOMS.”
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“While the overall bacterial load was similar in responders and non-responders, multiple bacterial taxa had significantly different representation, notably Veillonellaceae and Gammaproteobacteria were associated with resistance, as already identified in GOMS.”
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“First, correlations have been drawn across cancer indications and geographical sites between the taxonomic composition of the gut (and to some degree tumor) microbiota, and ICI responses in patients with melanoma and other cancers.”
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“Quantitative PCR has estimated that among seven cancer types, approximately 0.68% (95% CI: 0.75, 1.46%) of the tumor cellular content is bacterial, with melanoma-specific density estimates at ~33 bacteria/mm2 or ~6.3×106 bacteria/cm3 on average (using bootstrapped values).”
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“Theoretically, more than one bacterial cell can infect a single cancer cell,38,103 but the total number of unique species per tumor, bacterial or fungal, drops (<50) when decontamination strategies are applied.”
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“It has become increasingly apparent that tumors distant from the gut harbor their own microbiota (Nejman et al., 2020).”
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“Emerging evidence also suggests the existence and functional activity of intratumoral bacteria, with overlapping immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, electron microscopy, and sequencing data on them in ~10 cancer types.”
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“There are also associations between intratumor microbiota and immunogenicity, including differential melanoma immunotherapy response and triple-negative breast cancer associations, but their underlying mechanisms remain uncharacterized (12).”
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“Histologic imaging revealed heterogeneous microbial spatial distributions (Fig. 3B)”
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“They included 811 experimental controls, covering DNA extraction, PCR amplification, and paraffin embedding, removing 94.3% of bacteria as contaminants.”
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“Applying their pipeline to a melanoma immunotherapy cohort suggested microbiome differences between responders and non-responders, but not yet a mechanism.”
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“Nejman et al. (12) and Poore et al. (13) suggest distinct intratumoral microbiomes among >30 cancer types (Fig. 3), proposing their applicability to blood-based diagnostics”
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“It was only recently suggested that cancer types outside of the aerodigestive tract, such as breast or brain cancer, may also harbor microbiota with unique compositions.”
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“However, it is noteworthy that extra-intestinal cancers can develop within tissues that harbor their own microbiome and may play a role in the exacerbation of neoplasia (12, 18, 25, 46).”
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“and their frequent intracellular localization in cancer and immune cells (Fig. 3C).”
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“Examining the residual 528 bacterial species revealed significant differences in composition, diversity, and inferred metabolic functionality between cancer types.”
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“providing imaging evidence of these microbes’ intratumoral spatial distribution and intracellular localization in seven cancer types, although imaging evidence remains lacking for most cancer types.”
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“Because bacteria were cultured from only five human breast tumors, the widespread viability of intratumoral bacteria from this study was unclear, particularly in cancers with reportedly fewer bacteria.”
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“whether translocated bacteria impact on tumor immunity or ICI from directly within the tumor remained unknown”
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“Two recent studies demonstrate a high prevalence of microbes within a broad range of tumors, including those not physically associated with the aerodigestive tract and its commensal organisms”
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“these microbes can be localized within the cancer cells themselves or within tumor-associated immune cells”
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“intratumoral microbes--yet another component of the tumor microenvironment that was heretofore underappreciated--has been shown to have significant impact on the anti-tumor immune responses and responses to ICB”
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“these microbes may be tumor-type specific, suggesting distinct functions that may complement the tumor”
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“The gut and tumor microbiome have been associated with anti-tumor responses and, in some cases, response to immune checkpoint blockade”
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“Furthermore, mounting evidence suggests the presence of intratumoral microbiota [410].”
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§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Intratumor bacteria are mostly intracellular and are present in both cancer and immune cells
“LTA was rarely detected in cancer cells or in CD45+/CD68− immune cells (Fig. 2).”
§ The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria > Intratumor bacteria are mostly intracellular and are present in both cancer and immune cells
“no cell wall polymer LTA was detected in cancer cells”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nejman, D., Livyatan, I., Fuks, G., Gavert, N., Zwang, Y., Geller, L. T., Rotter-Maskowitz, A., Weiser, R., Mallel, G., Gigi, E., Meltser, A., Douglas, G. M., Kamer, I., Gopalakrishnan, V., Dadosh, T., Levin-Zaidman, S., Avnet, S., Atlan, T., Cooper, Z. A., Arora, R., Cogdill, A. P., Khan, M. A. W., Ologun, G., Bussi, Y., Weinberger, A., Lotan-Pompan, M., Golani, O., Perry, G., Rokah, M., Bahar-Shany, K., Rozeman, E. A., Blank, C. U., Ronai, A., Shaoul, R., Amit, A., Dorfman, T., Kremer, R., Cohen, Z. R., Harnof, S., Siegal, T., Yehuda-Shnaidman, E., Gal-Yam, E. N., Shapira, H., Baldini, N., Langille, M. G. I., Ben-Nun, A., Kaufman, B., Nissan, A., Golan, T., Dadiani, M., Levanon, K., Bar, J., Yust-Katz, S., Barshack, I., Peeper, D. S., Raz, D. J., Segal, E., Wargo, J. A., Sandbank, J., Shental, N., & Straussman, R.
- Affiliations
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- Sheba Medical Center (IL)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli (IT)
- Jerusalem College of Technology (IL)
- AstraZeneca (United States) (US)
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel.
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NL)
- Rambam Health Care Campus (IL)
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Rabin Medical Center (IL)
- Institute of Pathology, Megalab, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Rehovot, Israel.
- Breast Oncology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel.
- Maccabi Healthcare Services (IL)
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- City Of Hope National Medical Center (US)
- Open University of Israel (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Nejman, Deborah
- Livyatan, Ilana
- Fuks, Garold
- Shental, Noam
- Straussman, Ravid
- ORCID
- Nejman, Deborah
- Livyatan, Ilana
- Fuks, Garold
- Gavert, Nancy
- Zwang, Yaara
- Geller, Leore T.
- Rotter-Maskowitz, Aviva
- Weiser, Roi
- Mallel, Giuseppe
- Meltser, Arnon
- Douglas, Gavin M.
- Kamer, Iris
- Gopalakrishnan, Vancheswaran
- Levin-Zaidman, Smadar
- Avnet, Sofia
- Atlan, Tehila
- Cooper, Zachary A.
- Arora, Reetakshi
- Cogdill, Alexandria P.
- Khan, Md Abdul Wadud
- Ologun, Gabriel
- Bussi, Yuval
- Weinberger, Adina
- Lotan-Pompan, Maya
- Golani, Ofra
- Perry, Gili
- Rokah, Merav
- Rozeman, Elisa A.
- Blank, Christian U.
- Shaoul, Ron
- Amit, Amnon
- Cohen, Zvi R.
- Harnof, Sagi
- Siegal, Tali
- Baldini, Nicola
- Langille, Morgan G. I.
- Kaufman, Bella
- Nissan, Aviram
- Golan, Talia
- Dadiani, Maya
- Levanon, Keren
- Bar, Jair
- Yust-Katz, Shlomit
- Barshack, Iris
- Peeper, Daniel S.
- Raz, Dan J.
- Segal, Eran
- Wargo, Jennifer A.
- Sandbank, Judith
- Shental, Noam
- Straussman, Ravid
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2020-05-29
- Volume
- 368
- Issue
- 6494
- Pages
- 973-980
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC7757858
- OpenAlex
- W3030942202
- Cited by
- 2,464
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
- 2026: 425 · 2025: 524 · 2024: 466 · 2023: 415 · 2022: 335 · 2021: 234 · 2020: 63
- FWCI
- 85.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (1R01CA219896-01A1)
- American Association for Cancer Research (SU2C-AACR-IRG-19-17)
- Israel Cancer Research Fund
- H2020 European Research Council (818086)
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (2013332)
- Israel Ministry of Science, Technology & Space (3-11174)
- Israel Science Foundation (2044/17)
- Rising Tide Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biotechnology › Bacterial Cancer Therapy
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Keywords
- tumor microbiome, intratumoral bacteria, intracellular bacteria, breast cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma, bone tumors, brain tumors, tumor subtypes, smoking, immunotherapy response, tumor immune cells
- MeSH terms
- Bacteria, Breast, Colon, Female, Humans, Immunotherapy, Lung, Macrophages, Male, Neoplasms, Ovary, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Microbiota
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