Dissecting the communication between immune and tumor cells with quantitative proteomics
Felix Meissner, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Experimental Systems Immunology(link is external)
Project Summary
While a large array of paracrine factors is hypothesized to determine the local cross-talk between cancer cells and the immune system, only a few of these factors have been identified and characterized because current technologies are insufficiently developed. To overcome these obstacles, Meissner (P16) develops sophisticated quantitative mass spectrometry-based approaches including cell type-specific labeling with amino acid precursors. These technologies will allow the first unbiased and system-wide characterization of cancer – immune cell cross-talk ex vivo and in co-culture in vitro. Using transgenic mouse models, these technologies will be adapted and utilized for in vivo analyses and applied to study the paracrine information exchange between macrophages and cancer cells. Together, this project will generate new hypotheses about how immune-derived factors control melanoma and intestinal cancer cell proliferation and phenotype.
Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) are highly coveted because they are hard to come by and provide funding in the millions of euros. At the University of Bonn, three scientists will receive such funding for the next five years.
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Bader, J. M., Deigendesch, N., Misch, M., Mann, M., Koch, A. & Meissner, F. (2023). Cell Rep Med, 4:100877.
DOI:10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100877
Swietlik, J. J., Bärthel, S., Falcomatà, C., Fink, D., Sinha, A., Cheng, J., Ebner, S., Landgraf, P., Dieterich, D. C., Daub, H., Saur, D. & Meissner, F. (2023). Nat Commun, 14, 2642.
DOI:10.1038/s41467-023-38171-8
Frauenstein, A., Ebner, S., Hansen, F. M., Sinha, A., Phulphagar, K., Swatek, K., Hornburg, D., Mann, M., Meissner, F. (2021). Mol Syst Biol 17, e10125.
DOI:10.15252/msb.202010125(link is external)
Pfister, D., Nunez, N. G., Pinyol, R., Govaere, O., Pinter, M., Szydlowska, M., Gupta, R., Qiu, M., Deczkowska, A., Weiner, A., Muller, F., Sinha, A., Friebel, E., Engleitner, T., Lenggenhager, D., Moncsek, A., Heide, D., Stirm, K., Kosla, J., Kotsiliti, E., Leone, V., Dudek, M., Yousuf, S., Inverso, D., Singh, I., Teijeiro, A., Castet, F., Montironi, C., Haber, P. K., Tiniakos, D., Bedossa, P., Cockell, S., Younes, R., Vacca, M., Marra, F., Schattenberg, J. M., Allison, M., Bugianesi, E., Ratziu, V., Pressiani, T., D'Alessio, A., Personeni, N., Rimassa, L., Daly, A. K., Scheiner, B., Pomej, K., Kirstein, M. M., Vogel, A., Peck-Radosavljevic, M., Hucke, F., Finkelmeier, F., Waidmann, O., Trojan, J., Schulze, K., Wege, H., Koch, S., Weinmann, A., Bueter, M., Rossler, F., Siebenhuner, A., Dosso, S., Mallm, J. P., Umansky, V., Jugold, M., Luedde, T., Schietinger, A., Schirmacher, P., Emu, B., Augustin, H. G., Billeter, A., Muller-Stich, B., Kikuchi, H., Duda, D. G., Kutting, F., Waldschmidt, D. T., Ebert, M. P., Rahbari, N., Mei, H. E., Schulz, A. R., Ringelhan, M., Malek, N., Spahn, S., Bitzer, M., Ruiz de Galarreta, M., Lujambio, A., Dufour, J. F., Marron, T. U., Kaseb, A., Kudo, M., Huang, Y. H., Djouder, N., Wolter, K., Zender, L., Marche, P. N., Decaens, T., Pinato, D. J., Rad, R., Mertens, J. C., Weber, A., Unger, K., Meissner, F., Roth, S., Jilkova, Z. M., Claassen, M., Anstee, Q. M., Amit, I., Knolle, P., Becher, B., Llovet, J. M., Heikenwalder, M. (2021). Nature 592, 450-456.
DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03362-0(link is external)
Phulphagar, K., Kuhn, L. I., Ebner, S., Frauenstein, A., Swietlik, J. J., Rieckmann, J., Meissner, F. (2021). Cell Rep 34, 108826.
DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108826(link is external)
Swietlik, J. J., Sinha, A., Meissner, F. (2020). Curr Opin Cell Biol 63, 20-30.
DOI:10.1016/j.ceb.2019.12.002(link is external)
O'Connor, T., Zhou, X., Kosla, J., Adili, A., Garcia Beccaria, M., Kotsiliti, E., Pfister, D., Johlke, A. L., Sinha, A., Sankowski, R., Schick, M., Lewis, R., Dokalis, N., Seubert, B., Hochst, B., Inverso, D., Heide, D., Zhang, W., Weihrich, P., Manske, K., Wohlleber, D., Anton, M., Hoellein, A., Seleznik, G., Bremer, J., Bleul, S., Augustin, H. G., Scherer, F., Koedel, U., Weber, A., Protzer, U., Forster, R., Wirth, T., Aguzzi, A., Meissner, F., Prinz, M., Baumann, B., Hopken, U. E., Knolle, P. A., von Baumgarten, L., Keller, U., Heikenwalder, M. (2019). Cancer Cell 36, 250-267 e9.
DOI:10.1016/j.ccell.2019.08.001(link is external)