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ArticleNeoplasia (New York, N.Y.)2017

Identifying Regulatory Posttranslational Modifications of PD-L1: A Focus on Monoubiquitinaton.

Henrick Horita, Andy Law, Soonjin Hong, Kim Middleton

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Article in Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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68citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Strategies to target PD-1/PD-L1 in the tumor microenvironment.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026
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  3. Do Metastatic Cells Arise from PD-L1International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  4. Progress in understanding the regulatory mechanisms of immune checkpoint proteins PD-1 and PD-L1 expression.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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  7. Claudin-9 (Cancer pathogenesis and therapy · 2025
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Henrick HoritaR&D Department, Cytoskeleton Inc., Denver, CO, 80223, USA. Electronic address: Henrickh@cytoskeleton.com.
Andy LawR&D Department, Cytoskeleton Inc., Denver, CO, 80223, USA.
Soonjin HongR&D Department, Cytoskeleton Inc., Denver, CO, 80223, USA.
Kim MiddletonR&D Department, Cytoskeleton Inc., Denver, CO, 80223, USA.
Cytoskeleton (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A set of high-affinity, high-specificity posttranslational modification (PTM) enrichment tools was developed to generate an unbiased snapshot of four key PTM profiles (tyrosine phosphorylation, acetylation, ubiquitination, and SUMOylation 2/3) for the clinically important protein programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1). The results showed that epidermal growth factor (EGF) treatment induced tyrosine phosphorylation, acetylation, and ubiquitination of PD-L1. Further characterization of EGF-induced PD-L1 ubiquitination revealed a significant increase in mono- and multiubiquitination of PD-L1 that occurred on glycosylated PD-L1. EGF induced mono- and multiubiquitination of PD-L1 preceded EGF-induced increases in PD-L1 protein levels. Chemical inhibitors of the EGFR pathway, gefitnib and SCH772984, suppressed PD-L1 mono- and multiubiquitination, and inhibition of the ubiquitin E1 activating enzyme, with the chemical inhibitor PYR41, was sufficient to block EGF-stimulated increases in PD-L1 protein levels. This study highlights the significance of identifying novel PTMs for PD-L1 and reveals potentially critical regulatory mechanisms that may be valuable therapeutic targets. In a broader context, this report validates an approach whereby one can gain insight into novel mechanisms of action by a simple and unbiased analysis of a PTM profile of potentially any endogenous protein of interest.

Indexed as

Protein Processing, Post-TranslationalB7-H1 AntigenCell Line, TumorEpidermal Growth FactorErbB ReceptorsGlycosylationHumansModels, MolecularProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorSignal TransductionUbiquitinationB7-H1 AntigenEpidermal Growth FactorErbB ReceptorsProgrammed Cell Death 1 Receptor

Identifiers

PMID28319808
PMCPMC5358937
OpenAlexW2595504958

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