Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Mitochondrial fission induces immunoescape in solid tumors through decreasing MHC-I surface expression

  • Xinyuan Lei,
  • Hsinyu Lin,
  • Jieqi Wang,
  • Zhanpeng Ou,
  • Yi Ruan,
  • Ananthan Sadagopan,
  • Weixiong Chen,
  • Shule Xie,
  • Baisheng Chen,
  • Qunxing Li,
  • Jue Wang,
  • Huayue Lin,
  • Xiaofeng Zhu,
  • Xiaoqing Yuan,
  • Tian Tian,
  • Xiaobin Lv,
  • Sha Fu,
  • Xiaorui Zhu,
  • Jian Zhou,
  • Guokai Pan,
  • Xin Xia,
  • Bakhos A. Tannous,
  • Soldano Ferrone,
  • Song Fan,
  • Jinsong Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31417-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Cancer cells downregulate surface expression of major histocompatibility complex I (MHC-I) for immune evasion. Here, the authors show that rapid mitochondrial fission activates the ER-stress response leading to reduced MHC-I complex formation and cell surface expression in solid cancer cells; moreover inhibition of mitochondrial fission increases the immune-mediated anticancer response in murine models.