Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41775684›Full record

ArticleSignal transduction and targeted therapy2026

Harnessing lipid-driven immunometabolic pathways in omental metastases to enhance immunotherapy in patients with ovarian cancer.

Meggy Suarez-Carmona, Mareike Hampel, Xin-Wen Zhang, Alexandra Pöchmann, Silke A Grauling-Halama, Nektarios A Valous, Pornpimol Charoentong, Dyke Ferber, Jannis Wissfeld, Alicia Höflich and 29 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

39 authors.

Meggy Suarez-CarmonaGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Meggy.SuarezCarmona@ulb.be.
Mareike HampelNational Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Xin-Wen ZhangGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Alexandra PöchmannGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Silke A Grauling-HalamaGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Nektarios A ValousApplied Tumor Immunity Clinical Cooperation Unit, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
Pornpimol CharoentongNational Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Dyke FerberNational Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Jannis WissfeldDepartment of Tumor Immunology and Tumor Immunotherapy, Helmholtz Center for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON), Mainz, Germany.
Alicia HöflichGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Stanislas GorielyInstitute of Medical Immunology (IMI) and Immunobiology Lab, ULB Center for Research in Immunology (U-CRI), Gosselies, Belgium.
Aurélie DetavernierInstitute of Medical Immunology (IMI) and Immunobiology Lab, ULB Center for Research in Immunology (U-CRI), Gosselies, Belgium.
Abdulkader AzouzInstitute of Medical Immunology (IMI) and Immunobiology Lab, ULB Center for Research in Immunology (U-CRI), Gosselies, Belgium.
Anthony RongvauxTranslational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
Sven ZukunftInstitute for Vascular Signaling, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1811-4562
Ingrid FlemingInstitute for Vascular Signaling, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1881-3635
Jürgen G OkunDietmar Hopp Metabolic Center, University Children's Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Vickie BaracosDivision of Palliative Care Medicine, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Mathias HeikenwalderGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Chronic inflammation and cancer, Heidelberg, Germany.
Laurence ZitvogelInstitut Gustave-Roussy, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1596-0998
Xinyi XuState Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Science Research Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Chenqi XuState Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Science Research Center, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4968-6782
Michael VolkmarT Cell Discovery Platform, Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON) Mainz - A Helmholtz Institute of the DKFZ, Mainz, Germany.
Daniel SchraivogelGenome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5734-6980
Lars SteinmetzGenome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
Junzo HamanishiDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Masaki MandaiDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Matthias GaidaInstitute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Theresa MokryDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Clinic of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Johanna NattenmüllerDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Clinic of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Oliver SedlaczekDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Clinic of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Nanna MonjeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Roxana SchwabDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Annette HasenburgDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Athanasios MavratzasFaculty of Medicine Mannheim, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.
Regina Johanna BogerFaculty of Medicine Mannheim, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.
Frederik MarméFaculty of Medicine Mannheim, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6591-3367
Sarah SchottDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Niels HalamaGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Niels.Halama@dkfz.de.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 318346496Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (French Community of Belgium) ERDF 2022-2027 WAL IMAGIN SYST-IMMHelmholtz Association Zukunftsthema
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) in epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) shows limited clinical benefit only for a small subset of patients. Overall response rates are low, so that overcoming immunotherapy resistance and improved stratification are key. In this study, we investigated the immunometabolic landscape of EOC with a focus on omental metastases, identifying lipid-laden macrophages as central elements for actionable therapeutic vulnerabilities and giving rise to biomarkers for improved patient stratification. Using patient-derived explants, we demonstrated a functional dichotomy inside the typically lipid-rich microenvironment of omental metastases: augmented maintenance of effector T cell function, while lipid uptake and processing by tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) induces oxidative stress-dependent signaling programs, which drive macrophage dysfunction and immune suppression. Pharmacological modulation of lipid-driven signaling pathways through CCR5 inhibition (inflammation modulation through maraviroc) or blockade of the lipid scavenger receptor CD36 reprograms TAMs, restores T cell activity, and enhances antitumor immune responses within lipid-rich tumor niches. Mechanistically, studies in humanized mouse models reveal that maraviroc-mediated CCR5 inhibition induces transcriptional programs associated with immune activation in stressed, lipid-laden human TAMs. Consistent with these mechanistic insights, we demonstrated that the specific immunometabolic niche in omental metastases is clinically associated with responsiveness to ICB. We propose a non-invasive radiomics and machine-learning-based analysis of imaging data to assess omental involvement for patient stratification.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Ovarian EpithelialImmunotherapyLipid MetabolismOmentumOvarian NeoplasmsAnimalsFemaleHumansMiceTumor-Associated MacrophagesTumor Microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID41775684
PMCPMC12957430

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.