The extracellular matrix and immunity: breaking the old barrier in cancer.

Trends Immunol

Center for Cancer Immunology and Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Department of Dermatology and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address:

Published: June 2022

Extracellular matrix (ECM) is an integral component of solid cancers; however, the impact of the ECM on antitumor immunity has remained elusive. Sun and colleagues now demonstrate that discoidin domain receptor 1-mediated collagen assembly can exclude T cells from tumors. Together, recent studies highlight ECM as an active regulator of immunity in cancer.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2022.04.004DOI Listing

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