Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

USP12 downregulation orchestrates a protumourigenic microenvironment and enhances lung tumour resistance to PD-1 blockade

  • Zhaojuan Yang,
  • Guiqin Xu,
  • Boshi Wang,
  • Yun Liu,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Tiantian Jing,
  • Ming Tang,
  • Xiaoli Xu,
  • Kun Jiao,
  • Lvzhu Xiang,
  • Yujie Fu,
  • Daoqiang Tang,
  • Xiaoren Zhang,
  • Weilin Jin,
  • Guanglei Zhuang,
  • Xiaojing Zhao,
  • Yongzhong Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25032-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The cancer cell-extrinsic roles of deubiquitinases are unclear. Here the authors show that deubiquitinase USP12 downregulation contributes to development of an immune-suppressive tumour microenvironment in KRAS-driven lung cancers and mechanistically this is through the insufficient deubiquitination of the NF-κB inhibitor, PPM1B.