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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Jiang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6605868 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Yongshuai Y Chen Ming M Nie Hong H Yuan Yuanyang Y
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics 20190319 5
Programmed death-1 (PD-1) is a cell surface receptor that functions as a T cell checkpoint and plays a central role in regulating T cell exhaustion. Binding of PD-1 to its ligand, programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), activates downstream signaling pathways and inhibits T cell activation. Moreover abnormally high PD-L1 expression on tumor cells and antigen-presenting cells in the tumor microenvironment mediates tumor immune escape, and the development of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies has recently beco ...[more]