Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Tumor factors stimulate lysosomal degradation of tumor antigens and undermine their cross-presentation in lung cancer

  • Zhen Lu,
  • Jinyun Chen,
  • Pengfei Yu,
  • Matthew J. Atherton,
  • Jun Gui,
  • Vivek S. Tomar,
  • Justin D. Middleton,
  • Neil T. Sullivan,
  • Sunil Singhal,
  • Subin S. George,
  • Ashley G. Woolfork,
  • Aalim M. Weljie,
  • Tsonwin Hai,
  • Evgeniy B. Eruslanov,
  • Serge Y. Fuchs

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34428-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Dendritic cells (DC) present tumour antigens to T cells but this process is defective in the tumour microenvironment. Here the authors find that downregulation of cholesterol 25-hydroxylase underlies defective cross presentation of tumour antigens.