Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Ursodeoxycholic acid reduces antitumor immunosuppression by inducing CHIP-mediated TGF-β degradation

  • Yingying Shen,
  • Chaojie Lu,
  • Zhengbo Song,
  • Chenxiao Qiao,
  • Jiaoli Wang,
  • Jinbiao Chen,
  • Chengyan Zhang,
  • Xianchang Zeng,
  • Zeyu Ma,
  • Tao Chen,
  • Xu Li,
  • Aifu Lin,
  • Jufeng Guo,
  • Jianli Wang,
  • Zhijian Cai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31141-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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TGF-β can function to increase Treg cell function and reduce anti-tumour immunity. Here the authors show that UDCA is a potential mediator that can reduce TGF-β activity and promote anti-tumour immune responses in mice and can be additive to other checkpoint inhibitors.