CD45+ CD11b+ F4/80+ TAMs were sorted using SH800S sorter (Sony). Cell lysates were prepared in 5 μL buffer TCL (catalog no. 1031576, Qiagen) + 1% β-mercaptoethanol (catalog no. 21985-023, Thermo Fisher Scientific). Samples were sent to Broad Genomic Service, and the SmartSeq2 platform was used to generate RNA-Seq data. Differentially expressed genes were determined using Limma package (51 (link)) in R. GSEA was performed using GSEA software and plotted by ClusterProfiler (52 (link)) and ggplot2 packages in R. RNA-Seq data were analyzed for gene set enrichment in DMBA3-4-TAMs compared with DMSO3-1-TAMs. Original data are available as the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus database (GSE237536).
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