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Mechanistically, FAK-KO heat-treated conditioned media contained exosomes enriched with omega-3 fatty acids which stimulated macrophage CXCL13 production. Ifebemtinib-treated tumors, FAK-KO exosomes, and purified eicosapentaenoic acid enhanced murine and human HGSOC-associated tumor macrophage reprogramming and CXCL13 expression. Overall, our studies define a tumor to macrophage signaling linkage via omega-3 exosome lipids supporting B cell recruitment, survival, immunotherapy enhancement, and actionable via small molecule FAK inhibition. eTOC Blurb High-grade serous ovarian cancer remains difficult to treat due to therapy resistance. Chen et. al. reveal that tumor FAK inhibition educates macrophages to express CXCL13 associated with B cell infiltration - highlighting a new therapeutic pathway linking FAK inhibition, omega-3 fatty acid containing exosomes, and macrophage mediated anti-tumor activation. Bullet points Genetic or small molecule FAK inhibition enhances ovarian tumor B cell infiltration Tumor FAK inhibition stimulates GATA6+ macrophages to make CXCL13 FAKi, pegylated doxorubicin and anti-TIGIT promote tertiary lymphoid structures Omega-3 fatty acids stimulate human HGSOC ascites macrophages to make CXCL13","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2025,"id":575073,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9522,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":570038,"name":"Kevin M. 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