Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Inhibition of UBA6 by inosine augments tumour immunogenicity and responses

  • Lei Zhang,
  • Li Jiang,
  • Liang Yu,
  • Qin Li,
  • Xiangjun Tian,
  • Jingquan He,
  • Ling Zeng,
  • Yuqin Yang,
  • Chaoran Wang,
  • Yuhan Wei,
  • Xiaoyue Jiang,
  • Jing Li,
  • Xiaolu Ge,
  • Qisheng Gu,
  • Jikun Li,
  • Di Wu,
  • Anthony J. Sadler,
  • Di Yu,
  • Dakang Xu,
  • Yue Gao,
  • Xiangliang Yuan,
  • Baokun He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33116-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The metabolic environment of tumours has wide-ranging effects on the anti-tumour immune response and the outcome of immune therapy. Authors show here that the purine metabolite inosine enhances tumour immunogenicity and thus immune checkpoint blockade therapy response by inhibiting the ubiquitin-activating enzyme UBA6 in tumour cells.