CMTM6, the newly identified PD-L1 regulator, correlates with PD-L1 expression in lung cancers

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Modulation of Immune check point regulators, especially the PD-1/PD-L1 axis, plays a critical role in successful management of a small proportion of lung cancer patients, but not so effective in the rest of lung cancer patients. A better understanding of immunotherapy non-responsive or resistant patients therefore warranted for future development of novel therapeutics. The newly identified regulator CMTM6 (CKLF-like MARVEL transmembrane domain containing 6) has been reported to serves as the stabilizer of PD-L1 and enhances the inhibitory effect of PD-L1 on immune system in both cell line and animal models, but its clinical relevance associated with PD-L1 is unknown and the current study is designed to address this question. The study using immunohistochemistry demonstrated that CMTM6 positivity from 15 out of 19 types of cancers with our in-house tissue microarray, and PD-L1 expression is always found only in CMTM6 positive cancers. CMTM6 and PD-L1 expression were analyzed in 81 lung cancer patient sample, and we observed that CMTM6 expression correlated with cancer histotypes and inversely correlated with cancer metastases, but not with patients' age and gender. No PD-L1 expression was observed in negative CMTM6 samples. Higher expression PD-L1 is also associated with higher CMTM6 expression. In summary, CMTM6 expression is associated with PD-L1 expression, as well as lung cancer histotypes and metastasis. The results thus for the first time confirmed earlier reports on CMTM6/PD-L1 connection, from a clinical aspect of analysis.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

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Biochemistry and biophysics reports - 20(2019) vom: 30. Dez., Seite 100690

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gao, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Li, Peixiang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jue [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Yong [VerfasserIn]

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CMTM6
Immunohistochemistry
Journal Article
Lung carcinomas
PD-L1
Therapy

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Date Revised 30.09.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1016/j.bbrep.2019.100690

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NLM302511342