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Head Neck Pathol. 2021 Aug 10; doi: 10.1007/s12105-021-01370-0. Epub 2021 Aug 10.

Mutually Exclusive Expression of COL11A1 by CAFs and Tumour Cells in a Large panCancer and a Salivary Gland Carcinoma Cohort.

Head and neck pathology

Christoph Arolt, Franziska Hoffmann, Lisa Nachtsheim, Philipp Wolber, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Reinhard Buettner, Ferdinand von Eggeling, Alexander Quaas, Jens Peter Klußmann

Affiliations

  1. Medical Faculty, Institute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany. [email protected].
  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, MALDI Imaging and Innovative Biophotonics, Jena University Hospital, 07747, Jena, Germany.
  3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, 50937, Cologne, Germany.
  4. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Jena University Hospital, 07747, Jena, Germany.
  5. Medical Faculty, Institute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Kerpener Straße 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany.
  6. MALDI Imaging, Core Unit Proteome Analysis, DFG Core Unit Jena Biophotonic and Imaging, Laboratory (JBIL), Jena University Hospital, 07747, Jena, Germany.
  7. Medical Faculty, Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, 50937, Cologne, Germany.

PMID: 34378164 DOI: 10.1007/s12105-021-01370-0

Abstract

Procollagen 11A1 (COL11A1) is a central component of the extracellular matrix in many carcinomas, which is considered to be mainly produced by cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs). As COL11A1 expression correlates with adverse prognosis and is implicated in chemoresistance, it is a promising putative target. For the first time, we used RNA in-situ hybridization to systematically identify the cells that produce COL11A1 in the ten most prevalent carcinoma types, lymphomas (n = 275) and corresponding normal tissue (n = 55; panCancer cohort). Moreover, as most salivary gland carcinomas (SGC) display distinct stromal architectures, we also analysed 110 SGC. The corresponding protein formation of COL11A1 was determined by MALDI-TOF-MS-Imaging. We report that colon, breast and salivary duct carcinomas are highly infiltrated by COL11A1 positive CAFs (CAFs

© 2021. The Author(s).

Keywords: CAFs; COL11A1; Extracellular matrix; RNA-ISH; Salivary gland carcinoma; Tumour microenvironment

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