Advances in Spatial Heterogeneity and Cellular Localization Specificity of Intratumoral Bacteria
Minlan Ren, Jing Jia, Tingting Li, Yiwei Li, Nanxiang Shen, Yun Shi, Zhe Wang, Hao Fan, Guangli Sun, Guanying Xiong, Gang Li, Rui Peng · 2026
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Minlan Ren and eleven co-authors review the bacteria that live inside tumors in a 2026 paper. Where a microbe sits in a tumor, and how many there are, shapes what it does. The authors compare detection methods and sort the evidence into three patterns: organized communities in tissue, bacteria inside cells, and bacteria free between cells.
Each pattern links differently to signaling, metabolism, spread, drug resistance, and immune response. The review is strict about method: tumor samples carry so few microbes that contamination, batch effects, and missing controls can fake findings. It separates patient observations from lab mechanisms and grades the clinical proof. The authors see spatial microbiology as promising but not yet clinic-ready.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Minlan Ren, Jing Jia, Tingting Li, Yiwei Li, Nanxiang Shen, Yun Shi, Zhe Wang, Hao Fan, Guangli Sun, Guanying Xiong, Gang Li, Rui Peng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |