Simultaneous isolation of CD45 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, tumor cells, and associated fibroblasts from murine breast tumor model by MACS.

The study of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and its interactions with cancer cells is an important issue in cancer research. Here, we present a protocol to sort three important cell populations from murine triple negative breast cancer 4T1 model TME, including CD45 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, cancer-associated fibroblasts, and tumor cells. The protocol includes four steps: generation of 4T1 tumors, tumor collection and digestion, magnetic sorting of the different populations, and phenotypic validation of sorted cells.