Renal cancer cells acquire immune surface protein through trogocytosis and horizontal gene transfer

• Haley Q. Marcarian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Cancer Biology Graduate Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8273-1651

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• Anutr Sivakoses,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Biology Graduate Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Anika M. Arias,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Cancer Biology Graduate Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Olivia C. Ihedioha,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-0787

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• Benjamin R. Lee,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Maria C. Bishop,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Alfred L. M. Bothwell

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: albothwell@unmc.edu

  Affiliations Cancer Biology Graduate Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2477-2104

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