Fig. 1.
Role of the gut barrier in CRC. The gut barrier disruption is caused by increasing colon tumor-associated bacteria, which is regulated by the loss of FFAR2 in the intestinal epithelial cells. The gut barrier increases the susceptibility to colon cancer in the FFAR2-related pathway. In gut barrier disruption, the loss of FFAR2 on DCs overacts the DCs to increase the expression of IL-27, which is related to CD8 + T cell exhaustion
