Fig. 3

Abrogation of autophagy by siRNAs targeting autophagy-related genes in gastric cancer cells induced tumor-intrinsic PD-L1 expression. a Inhibition of autophagy by knockdown of ATG5 in AGS and NCI-n87 gastric cancer cells induced the expression of PD-L1 in the presence and absence of INF-γ (200 U/mL) as shown by flow cytometry analysis at 48 h post-transfection. b The induction of PD-L1 was confirmed by Western blots at 72 h post-transfection. The knockdown efficacies of ATG5 and ATG7 siRNA were verified. The conversion of LC3B-I to LC3B-II was reduced. Results were averaged and blots were representative of 4 independent experiments. The ratio of PD-L1 MFI minus isotype control was shown as mean ± S.D. relative to Ctrl from 4 independent experiments, *p < 0.05