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ArticleCancer research2016

Tumor-Intrinsic PD-L1 Signals Regulate Cell Growth, Pathogenesis, and Autophagy in Ovarian Cancer and Melanoma.

Curtis A Clark, Harshita B Gupta, Gangadhara Sareddy, Srilakshmi Pandeswara, Shunhua Lao, Bin Yuan, Justin M Drerup, Alvaro Padron, José Conejo-Garcia, Kruthi Murthy and 7 more

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Article in Cancer research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 253 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
253citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
23.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

253 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 395 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells modulation in the context of tumor microenvironment for gastric cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Curtis A ClarkThe Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Harshita B GuptaDepartment of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Gangadhara SareddyCancer Therapy & Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Srilakshmi PandeswaraDepartment of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Shunhua LaoDepartment of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Bin YuanDepartment of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Justin M DrerupThe Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Alvaro PadronDepartment of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
José Conejo-GarciaTumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kruthi MurthyThe Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Yang LiuDepartment of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Mary Jo TurkDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Kathrin ThedieckDepartment of Pediatrics, Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands and Department for Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
Vincent HurezDepartment of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Rong LiThe Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Ratna VadlamudiThe Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Tyler J CurielThe Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas. curielt@uthscsa.edu.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

Tumor Microenvironment and MetastasisP30CA010815 · NCI · WISTAR INSTITUTE · PI Aaron Robert Goldman · 1985 to 2026
$75.9M
TISSUE CULTURE---COREP30CA054174 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Lei Zheng · 1991 to 2026
$59.1M
Vascular Leukocytes Influence the Tumor MicroenvironmentR01CA124515 · NCI · WISTAR INSTITUTE · PI Jose R Conejo-Garcia · 2007 to 2026
$7.1M
Initiation and Evolution of the Ovarian Cancer MicroenvironmentR01CA157664 · NCI · WISTAR INSTITUTE · PI CONEJO-GARCIA, JOSE R · 2011 to 2020
$3.8M
Mechanisms of concomitant tumor immunity and autoimmunityR01CA120777 · NCI · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI TURK, MARY JO · 2006 to 2016
$2.5M
B7-H1 Signaling in Ovarian CancerR01CA164122 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI CURIEL, TYLER J. · 2012 to 2016
$1.5M
Immunological manipulation of resistance to molecularly targeted inhibitorsR21CA209375 · NCI · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI TURK, MARY JO · 2016 to 2017
$388k
Immune aspects of mTOR inhibition for cancer prevention (PQ5)R21CA170491 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI CURIEL, TYLER J. · 2012 to 2013
$348k
Novel PD-L1 signals regulating anti-tumor immunity and immunotherapy responsesF30CA206398 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI CLARK, CURTIS · 2016 to 2019
$118k
NCI NIH HHS F30 CA206398NCI NIH HHS P30 CA010815NCI NIH HHS P30 CA054174NCI NIH HHS R01 CA120777NCI NIH HHS R01 CA124515NCI NIH HHS R01 CA157664NCI NIH HHS R01 CA164122NCI NIH HHS R21 CA170491NCI NIH HHS R21 CA209375
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PD-L1 antibodies produce efficacious clinical responses in diverse human cancers, but the basis for their effects remains unclear, leaving a gap in the understanding of how to rationally leverage therapeutic activity. PD-L1 is widely expressed in tumor cells, but its contributions to tumor pathogenicity are incompletely understood. In this study, we evaluated the hypothesis that PD-L1 exerts tumor cell-intrinsic signals that are critical for pathogenesis. Using RNAi methodology, we attenuated PD-L1 in the murine ovarian cell line ID8agg and the melanoma cell line B16 (termed PD-L1

Indexed as

AnimalsAutophagyB7-H1 AntigenCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationFemaleHumansMelanomaMiceMice, KnockoutOvarian NeoplasmsSignal TransductionTransfectionB7-H1 AntigenCD274 protein, human

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PMID27671674
PMCPMC5228566
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