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Cells were stained with specific antibodies or control isotypes using conventional protocols. The following anti-mouse antibodies were used for FACS analysis of MDSCs: CD11b/PECy5, Gr1/PE, Gr1/APC, CD62L/FITC, F4/80/FITC, CD11c/PE, and MHC CI OVA peptide/Biotin from eBiosciences (San Diego, CA); as well as CD124/PE, CD40/FITC, CD86/FITC, I^A-I^E/FITC, Ly6C/FITC and Ly6G/PE that were purchased from BD Biosciences (San Jose, CA). Lymphocytes characterization was performed with the next specific antibodies: CD8/PE and CD8/Biotin, CD69/PECy5, CD62L/FITC, CD247/PE, CD4/PE, CD4/PECy5, CD25/PECy5, Foxp3/Biotin, IFN-γ/FITC, IL-4/PE and IL-17/PE, all from eBiosciences. FITC-conjugated Streptavidin was purchased also from eBiosciences. In all cases, cells were previously incubated with anti-mouse FcγR 2.4G2 ascites (HB-197; ATCC) to reduce the non-specific binding. For intracellular staining, cells were fixed and permeabilized, according to the manufacturer’s protocol, with either Foxp3 Staining Buffer Set or IC Fixation and 10X Permeabilization Buffers from eBiosciences. Cells were acquired using both FACScan (BD Biosciences) and Gallios (Beckman Coulter, Miami, FL) flow cytometers and analyzed with Kaluza 1.2 (Beckman Coulter) and FlowJo 5.7.2 (Tree Star Inc., USA) softwares.

ELISA kits for murine IL-6 was from R&D Systems (Minneapolis, MN). Fluorescein-conjugated mAbs including anti-CD3-PE-Cy7, CD4-PE-Cy5, CD8-PE, CD8-FITC, CD11b-APC, Ly6G-PE, Ly6C-FITC, CXCR2-Percp-Cy5.5, CD45-BV510, PD1-PE, PDL1-PE, LAG3-PE, CTLA4-PE, IFNγ-PE and isotype antibodies were purchased from BD biosciences. TIM3-PE was from Miltenyi Biotec (Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany). Antibody against STAT3 (79D7, 4904S), p-STAT3 (Tyr705, 9131S), ZEB1 (3396P), ZO-1(5406P), Snail(3879P), N-Cadherin(4061P) were obtained from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA, USA) and antibody against Actin was from Santa Cruz. IL6 inhibitor (501109) and IFN-γ inhibitor (505827) was from Biolegend. Luciferin substrate (K9909PE) for in vivo image was purchased from PerkinElmer Inc (Hopkinton, MA, USA). HE staining kit was from Beyotime Biotechnology. ShRNA for ZEB1 (TG513177) was purchased from OriGene.

To measure phagocytosis of neutrophils by flow cytometry, wound cells were stained with Ly6C-FITC and F4/80-APC to identify macrophages and with Ly6G-V450 (clone 1A8; BD Bioscience) to exclude neutrophils. Cells were fixed and permeabilized as described above, then intracellularly stained with Ly6G-PE (clone 1A8; BD Biosciences). Doublets were excluded from analysis and isotype controls for surface and intracellular Ly6G antibodies were used to ensure specificity of intracellular Ly6G staining.

The heparinized blood from each animal was divided into two parts. A volume of 150 µl was designated for blood count and measured using an ABX Pentra 60 C+ hemoanalyzer (Horiba, Kyoto, Japan). The rest of the blood (200–300 µl) was lysed using EasyLyse™ (Dako, Glostrup, Denmark). The amount of cells in suspension was as determined by Turk’s solution (2% acetic acid; Sigma-Aldrich) using a hemocytometer chamber. Cells (5 × 10⁵/100 µl) were marked with two panels of monoclonal antibodies. The first panel was delineated to detect T, B, and NK lymphocytes (CD3ϵ, CD4, CD8, CD19, and NK1.1). The second panel was designed for determination of monocytes and neutrophils (CD11b, F4/80, Ly6C, and Ly6G). The following monoclonal antibodies with fluorochromes for flow cytometry analysis were purchased from BioLegend (San Diego, CA, United States): anti-mouse CD3ϵ–FITC, CD4–BV421, CD19–PE, CD11c–BV421, CD45–APC/Fire™750, F4/80–PE, and from BD Bioscience: CD8–PECy7, CD11b–BV510, Ly6C–FITC, Ly6G–PECy7, and NK1.1–APC.

Whole blood was obtained (n = 6/group) and cell suspensions were prepared as previously described^{25 (link)} and were incubated with the following antibodies: CD11b-APC, Ly6G-PE, Ly6C-FITC (all BD Pharmingen, Oxford, UK), and CD115-PerCP (eBioscience, San Diego, USA).