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Supplementary Figures from Hyperglycemia Enhances Cancer Immune Evasion by Inducing Alternative Macrophage Polarization through Increased O-GlcNAcylation

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posted on 2023-04-04, 00:41 authored by Natália Rodrigues Mantuano, Michal A. Stanczak, Isadora de Araújo Oliveira, Nicole Kirchhammer, Alessandra A. Filardy, Gianni Monaco, Ronan Christian Santos, Agatha Carlos Fonseca, Miguel Fontes, César de Souza Bastos, Wagner B. Dias, Alfred Zippelius, Adriane R. Todeschini, Heinz Läubli

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Diabetes mellitus (DM) significantly increases the risk for cancer and cancer progression. Hyperglycemia is the defining characteristic of DM and tightly correlates with a poor prognosis in patients with cancer. The hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) is emerging as a pivotal cascade linking high glucose, tumor progression, and impaired immune function. Here we show that enhanced glucose flow through the HBP drives cancer progression and immune evasion by increasing O-GlcNAcylation in tumor-associated macrophages (TAM). Increased O-GlcNAc skewed macrophage polarization to a M2-like phenotype supporting tumor progression. Finally, we found an upregulation of M2 markers on TAMs in DM2 patients with colorectal cancer compared with nondiabetic normoglycemic patients. Our results provide evidence for a new and targetable mechanism of cancer immune evasion in patients with hyperglycemia, advocating for strict control of hyperglycemia in patients with cancer.

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    Cancer Immunology Research

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