Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

ARIH1 signaling promotes anti-tumor immunity by targeting PD-L1 for proteasomal degradation

  • Youqian Wu,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Xiaolan Liu,
  • Zhengfu He,
  • Bing Shan,
  • Qingxin Zeng,
  • Qingwei Zhao,
  • Huaying Zhu,
  • Hongwei Liao,
  • Xufeng Cen,
  • Xiaoyan Xu,
  • Mengmeng Zhang,
  • Tingjun Hou,
  • Zhe Wang,
  • Huanhuan Yan,
  • Shuying Yang,
  • Yaqin Sun,
  • Yanying Chen,
  • Ronghai Wu,
  • Tingxue Xie,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Ayaz Najafov,
  • Songmin Ying,
  • Hongguang Xia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22467-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The regulation of PD-L1 via proteasomal degradation is unclear. Here, the authors show that EGFR inhibition activates GSK3 α to promote PD-L1 phosphorylation, which leads to PD-L1 ubiquitination and proteasome mediated degradation by ARIH1 E3 ligase.