The E3 ubiquitin ligase TRAF6 controls CTLA-4 turnover and promotes T-cell-mediated antitumor immunity

XL Jie, H Guo, GB Zhou - Cellular & Molecular Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Yu et al.[1] reported that the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor OX40 (CD134)-TNF
receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) axis mediates Lys63-linked ubiquitination and …

The OX40-TRAF6 axis promotes CTLA-4 degradation to augment antitumor CD8+ T-cell immunity

J Yu, J Cui, X Zhang, H Xu, Z Chen, Y Li… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), including anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein
4 (CTLA-4), benefits only a limited number of patients with cancer. Understanding the in …

TRAF6 enhances PD-L1 expression through YAP1-TFCP2 signaling in melanoma

L Wang, X Liu, Y Han, H Tsai, Z Dan, P Yang, Z Xu… - Cancer Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy represented by programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)/programmed death
ligand 1 (PD-L1) monoclonal antibodies has led tumor treatment into a new era. However …

TRAF6 modulates PD-L1 expression through YAP1-TFCP2 signaling in melanoma

X Liu, L Wang, Y Han, H Tsai, F Shu, Z Xu, C He, H Zhu… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Background Immunotherapy represented by the programmed death-1 (PD-1)/ligand 1 (PD-
L1) monoclonal antibodies has led tumor treatment into a new era. However, the low overall …

A reappraisal of CTLA-4 checkpoint blockade in cancer immunotherapy

X Du, F Tang, M Liu, J Su, Y Zhang, W Wu… - Cell research, 2018 - nature.com
It is assumed that anti-CTLA-4 antibodies cause tumor rejection by blocking negative
signaling from B7-CTLA-4 interactions. Surprisingly, at concentrations considerably higher …

TLR1/2 ligand enhances antitumor efficacy of CTLA-4 blockade by increasing intratumoral Treg depletion

N Sharma, J Vacher, JP Allison - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Immune checkpoint inhibitors such as anti–CTLA-4 antibody are widely accepted
therapeutic options for many cancers, but there is still a considerable gap in achieving their …

Preserving the CTLA-4 checkpoint for safer and more effective cancer immunotherapy

Y Liu, P Zheng - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2020 - cell.com
A major paradigm in cancer immunotherapy is the use of checkpoint inhibitors to break
regulatory mechanisms that usually guard the host against autoimmune diseases. CTLA-4 …

CTLA-4 in regulatory T cells for cancer immunotherapy

N Sobhani, DR Tardiel-Cyril, A Davtyan, D Generali… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In the fight against cancer, immunotherapies have given great hope after
encouraging results in clinical investigations showing complete remission in some patients …

Traf6 inhibitor boosts antitumor immunity by impeding regulatory T cell migration in Hepa1-6 tumor model

X Wu, R Xue, H Peng, X Gan, X Lu, W Yan… - International …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tumors escape immune attacks via various mechanisms, among which activation of
regulatory pathways in effector immune cells and recruitment of immunosuppressive cells …

Hijacking antibody-induced CTLA-4 lysosomal degradation for safer and more effective cancer immunotherapy

Y Zhang, X Du, M Liu, F Tang, P Zhang, C Ai, JK Fields… - Cell Research, 2019 - nature.com
It remains unclear why the clinically used anti-CTLA-4 antibodies, popularly called
checkpoint inhibitors, have severe immunotherapy-related adverse effects (irAEs) and yet …