Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Expansion of interferon inducible gene pool via USP18 inhibition promotes cancer cell pyroptosis

  • Kei-ichiro Arimoto,
  • Sayuri Miyauchi,
  • Ty D. Troutman,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Mengdan Liu,
  • Samuel A. Stoner,
  • Amanda G. Davis,
  • Jun-Bao Fan,
  • Yi-Jou Huang,
  • Ming Yan,
  • Christopher K. Glass,
  • Dong-Er Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35348-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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The induction of immunogenic cell death (ICD) can potentiate antitumour immunity. Here the authors show that USP18, a negative regulator of IFN signaling protects cancer cells from ICD by suppressing the expression of canonical and non-canonical IFN-stimulated genes.