Portions of some tumors were processed for flow cytometry as previously described [31 (link)]. Single cell suspensions were stained with surface antibodies (Additional file 1: Table S2) and then fixed using the eBioscience FOXP3 fixation/permeabilization kit. UltraComp Beads eBeads (Invitrogen) were used for compensation and fluorescence minus one (FMO) methodology to determine gating. Flow cytometry was performed on an Attune Nxt flow cytometer (ThermoFisher), and compensation matrix and data were analyzed using FlowJo software. Tumor infiltrating innate and adaptive immune cell subpopulations were quantitated using the gating strategy shown in Additional file 2: Fig. S2A and B, respectively.
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