Abstract
The tumor microenvironment forms a complex pro-tumorigenic milieu constituted by extracellular matrix, surrounding stroma, infiltrating cell populations, and signaling molecules. Proteomic studies have the potential to reveal how individual cell populations within the tumor tissue modulate the microenvironment through protein secretion and consequently alter their protein expression and localization to adapt to this milieu. As a result, proteomic approaches have uncovered how these dynamic components communicate and promote tumor development and progression. The characterization of these mechanisms is relevant for the identification of clinically targetable pathways and for the development of diagnostic tools. Here we describe a method based on the isolation of individual cell compartments and the chromatographic fractionation of intact proteins, followed by enzymatic digestion of individual fractions, and mass-spectrometry analysis, for the profiling of tumor microenvironment cell populations.
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Capello, M., Katayama, H., Hanash, S.M. (2022). Proteomic Profiling of the Tumor Microenvironment. In: McAllister, F. (eds) Cancer Immunoprevention. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2435. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2014-4_11
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