@article{WuHanRodriguezSillkeetal.2019,
  author    = {Wu, Hao and Han, Yijie and Rodriguez Sillke, Yasmina and Deng, Hongzhang and Siddiqui, Sophiya and Treese, Christoph and Schmidt, Franziska and Friedrich, Marie and Keye, Jacqueline and Wan, Jiajia and Qin, Yue and K{\"u}hl, Anja A. and Qin, Zhihai and Siegmund, Britta and Glauben, Rainer},
  title     = {Lipid droplet-dependent fatty acid metabolism controls the immune suppressive phenotype of tumor-associated macrophages},
  series = {EMBO molecular medicine},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {EMBO molecular medicine},
  number    = {11},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {1757-4676},
  doi       = {10.15252/emmm.201910698},
  pages     = {17},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) promote tumor growth and metastasis by suppressing tumor immune surveillance. Herein, we provide evidence that the immunosuppressive phenotype of TAMs is controlled by long-chain fatty acid metabolism, specifically unsaturated fatty acids, here exemplified by oleate. Consequently, en-route enriched lipid droplets were identified as essential organelles, which represent effective targets for chemical inhibitors to block in vitro polarization of TAMs and tumor growth in vivo. In line, analysis of human tumors revealed that myeloid cells infiltrating colon cancer but not gastric cancer tissue indeed accumulate lipid droplets. Mechanistically, our data indicate that oleate-induced polarization of myeloid cells depends on the mammalian target of the rapamycin pathway. Thus, our findings reveal an alternative therapeutic strategy by targeting the pro-tumoral myeloid cells on a metabolic level.},
  language  = {en}
}