Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

NPM1 upregulates the transcription of PD-L1 and suppresses T cell activity in triple-negative breast cancer

  • Ge Qin,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Shubiao Ye,
  • Yizhuo Li,
  • Miao Chen,
  • Shusen Wang,
  • Tao Qin,
  • Changlin Zhang,
  • Yixin Li,
  • Qian Long,
  • Huabin Hu,
  • Dingbo Shi,
  • Jiaping Li,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Qinglian Zhai,
  • Yanlai Tang,
  • Tiebang Kang,
  • Ping Lan,
  • Fangyun Xie,
  • Jianjun Lu,
  • Wuguo Deng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15364-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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PD-L1 is highly expressed in triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC). Here, the authors show that nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1) transcriptionally activates PD-L1 expression and inhibits T cell activity in TNBC.