Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Autophagy deficiency promotes triple-negative breast cancer resistance to T cell-mediated cytotoxicity by blocking tenascin-C degradation

  • Zhi-Ling Li,
  • Hai-Liang Zhang,
  • Yun Huang,
  • Jun-Hao Huang,
  • Peng Sun,
  • Ning-Ning Zhou,
  • Yu-Hong Chen,
  • Jia Mai,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Yan Yu,
  • Li-Huan Zhou,
  • Xuan Li,
  • Dong Yang,
  • Xiao-Dan Peng,
  • Gong-Kan Feng,
  • Jun Tang,
  • Xiao-Feng Zhu,
  • Rong Deng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17395-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

Read online

T cell mediated therapies have proven largely unsuccessful in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Here, the authors show that autophagy is reduced in TNBC, which results in an increase in Tenascin C and reduced activation of tumour infiltrating lymphocytes.