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Vol 50(2016) N 6 p. 887-894; DOI 10.1134/S0026893316060248 S. Zeng1, H. Song1, Y. Chen1, W. Xie2, L. Zhang1* B7-H4-mediated immunoresistance is supressed by PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway inhibitors 1Department of Biology Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123 People's Republic of China2Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medicine and Life Sciences, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123 People's Republic of China *zliang@suda.edu.cn Received - 2015-11-13; Accepted - 2016-01-10 B7-H4 plays an important role in tumor immune evasion. In previous studies we have found that B7-H4 can translocate to the nucleus, and the exposure to PI3K inhibitor Ly294002 affects B7-H4 subcellular distribution. In this study we report the role of PI3K/Akt pathway in the B7-H4 subcellular distribution and the effect of PI3K/Akt inhibitors on B7-H4-mediated immunoresistance. The involvement of PI3K/Akt pathway in B7-H4 subcellular distribution was evident in experiments with wortmannin, while MDM2 inhibitor nutlin-3 and the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin were used to dissect the signaling downstream of Akt. Wortmannin and rapamycin demonstrated similar effects on B7-H4 subcellular distribution. Exposure to any of these inhibitors decreased levels of membrane B7-H4 while at the same time inducing its nuclear accumulation, while exposure to nutlin-3 had no effect on B7-H4 subcellular distribution. In the T cell proliferation assay, both wortmannin and rapamycin effectively inhibited B7-H4 WT/293 cells-mediated T cell proliferation while exerting no effect on Mock/293 cells. PI3K/Akt/mTOR plays a role in B7-H4 subcellular distribution, while MDM2 does not take part in it. Moreover, we show that wortmannin and rapamycin inhibit B7-H4-mediated tumor immunoresistance through regulating B7-H4 subcellular distribution. Taken together, these results suggest that PI3K/Akt/mTOR inhibitors might be used for adjuvant therapy aimed at inhibition of immune evasion. B7-H4, PI3K/Akt/mTOR, subcellular distribution, tumor, immunoresistance |