MHC-I downregulation is associated with immune-evasion in breast cancers with heterogeneous activation of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity
Cancer cell-intrinsic epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity (EMP) drives carcinoma progression through increased intratumoral heterogeneity and an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Specifically, EMP activation in murine mammary carcinomas results in exclusion of CD8+ T-cells and recruitment of immunosuppressi...