Determination of permissive and restraining cancer-associated fibroblast (DeCAF) subtypes.
Xianlu Laura PengElena V KharitonovaYi XuJoseph F KearneyChangfei LuanPriscilla S ChanArthi HariharanIan C McCabeJohn R LearyAshley B MorrisonHannah E TrembathMichelle E LaBellaSilvia G Herera LoezaAshley CliffHong Jin KimBrian A BeltRoheena Z PanniDavid C LinehanJeffrey S DamrauerAlina C IugaWilliam Y KimNaim U RashidJen Jen YehPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2024)
We introduce a replicable and robust classifier, DeCAF, that delineates the significance of the role of permissive and restraining CAF subtypes in cancer patients. DeCAF is clinically tractable, prognostic and predictive of treatment response in multiple cancer types and lays the translational groundwork for the preclinical and clinical development of CAF subtype specific therapies.