Qiong Wang, Yaqiong Liu, Weiwei Chen, Sha Chen, Minting Su, Yanqin Zheng, Wenjie Liu, Li Li, Liang Zeng, Quan Shi, Juan He, Yuanmin Qian, Xingcui Xuan, Qirong Wen, Gendie E Lash, Kun Shi
Microbial dysbiosis has an increasingly appreciated impact on carcinogenesis, and the cervicovaginal microbiome plays a critical role in microenvironmental inflammation. Here, we investigated the involvement of the female genital tract Peptostreptococcus species in gynecological cancer via indoleacrylic acid (IAA). IAA production from Peptostreptococcus species and the effect of bacterial culture on tumor growth in vivo were examined. The impact of IAA on cytokine production and indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) expression in an endometrial cancer (EC) cell line, as well as their effect on Treg and Teff cells, and M1 and M2 macrophage populations were examined in EC patients and tumor-grafted mice...
March 4, 2024: Biomedicines