From: Regulation of PD-L1 expression in the tumor microenvironment
Regulatory stage | Regulator | The change of PD-L1 | Cancer type | References |
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Genomic alterations | Gene amplification or translocation | Up | Classical Hodgkin lymphoma; Small-cell lung cancer; Large B-cell lymphoma | |
Epigenetic regulation | H3K4me3 | Up | Pancreatic cancer | [27] |
 | H3K27me3 | Down | Hepatocellular carcinoma | [29] |
 | Methylation of some CpG loci in CD274 promoter | Down | Melanoma; Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas; Colorectal cancer | |
 | Histone acetylation | Up | Drug-resistant cancer cells; | [39] |
Transcriptional regulation | IFN-α, IFN-β, IFN-γ | Up | Melanoma; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Gastric carcinoma | |
 | IL-6 | Up | Prostate cancer; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Glioblastoma; Non-small cell lung cancer | |
 | TNF-α | Up | Prostate cancer; Colon cancer; Renal cell carcinoma | |
 | IL-10 | Up | Oral squamous cell carcinoma | [56] |
 | IL-27 | Up | Epithelial ovarian cancer; Prostate cancer; Non-small cell lung cancer | [57] |
 | TGF-β | Up | Lung cancer | |
 | EGFR | Up | Lung cancer | [62] |
 | MAPK | Up | Lung cancer; Melanoma; Pancreatic cancer; Triple-negative breast cancer | |
 | PTEN | Down | Triple-negative breast cancer | [74] |
 | PI3K | Up | Gastric cancer; Her2-overexpressing cell lines; Colorectal cancer; Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas; Non-small cell lung cancer | |
 | JAK-STAT | Up | Natural killer/T-cell lymphoma; Non-small cell lung cancer; Triple-negative breast cancer; | |
 | NF-κB | Up | Natural killer/T-cell lymphoma; Gastric carcinoma; Non-small cell lung cancer; Triple-negative breast cancer | |
 | HIF-1 | Up | Prostate cancer; Breast cancer; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma | |
 | Myc | Up | Leukemia and lymphomas; Melanoma; Non-small cell lung cancer; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Renal cell carcinoma; Colorectal carcinoma; Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; Pancreatic cancer | |
 | ALK | Up | Non-small cell lung cancer; Anaplastic large cell lymphoma | |
 | Met | Up | Non-small cell lung cancer | |
 | BRD4 | Up | Ovarian cancer | [112] |
 | DSB | Up | Osteosarcoma; Non-small cell lung cancer; Prostate cancer | [114] |
Post-transcriptional regulation | miR-148a-3p | Down | Colorectal cancer | [116] |
 | miR-873 | Down | Breast cancer | [117] |
 | miR-34a | Down | B-cell lymphoma; Acute myeloid leukemia | |
 | miR-200 family | Down | Non-small cell lung cancer; Hepatocellular carcinoma | |
 | miR-142-5p | Down | Pancreatic cancer | [121] |
 | miR-424 | Down | Ovarian cancer | [122] |
 | miR-214 | Down | Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma | [123] |
 | miR-497-5p | Down | Clear cell renal cell carcinoma | [124] |
 | miR-140 | Down | Non-small cell lung cancer | [125] |
 | miR-23a-3p/PTEN axis | Up | Liver Cancer | [127] |
 | miR-200a/PTEN axis | Up | Osteosarcoma | [128] |
 | miR-27a-3p/ MAGI2/PTEN axis | Up | Breast cancer | [129] |
 | miR-145/c-Myc axis | Down | Ovarian cancer | [130] |
 | miR-18a/ PTEN, WNK2, SOX6 axis | Up | Cervical cancer | [131] |
 | miR-BART5/PIAS3/pSTAT3 | Up | Gastric cancer | [133] |
 | RAS-tristetraprolin | Up | RAS mutant cancer | [135] |
 | Angiotensin II/human antigen R | Up | Non-small cell lung cancer | [136] |
Post-translational modification | Ubiquitination | Down | Multiple cancers | |
 | Y112 phosphorylation | Up | Hepatocellular carcinoma | [143] |
 | S195 phosphorylation | Down | Breast cancer | [144] |
 | T180 and S184 phosphorylation | Down | Breast cancer | [145] |
 | Glycosylation | Up | Breast cancer; Glioma | |
 | Palmitoylation | Up | Breast cancer; Colon cancer |