Search

Huiyu Wang,1,&ast; Dingyi Gu,1,&ast; Datian Chen,2,&ast; Jie Mei,1 Xuejing Yang,1 Junli Ding,1 Junying Xu,1 Meilin Wang,3 Chaoying Liu,1 Dong Hua1 1Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Affiliated Wuxi People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, 214023, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Oncology, Haimen People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nantong University, Haimen, 226100, People’s Republic of China; 3The School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210000, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Meilin Wang; Chaoying Liu, Email meilin_wang210@126.com; liuchaoying666@163.comPurpose: The aim of this study was to explore the clinical significance of deglycosylated PD-L1 level and its correlation with EGFR and ALK mutation in lung adenocarcinoma.Materials and Methods: We estimated the intensity of both native and deglycosylated PD-L1 signals using a 28– 8 antibody on lung adenocarcinoma tissue microarray sections. We analyzed the difference in the H-score between tumor and paratumor tissues, as well as that before and after deglycosylation. Correlations between EGFR or ALK status and PD-L1 expression were analyzed. We also evaluated the differences among survival curves.Results: The expression level of PD-L1 in lung adenocarcinoma tissues was significantly higher than that in paratumor tissues (P< 0.0001). Deglycosylation significantly enhanced the detection of PD-L1 in tumor tissues (P< 0.0001). There was no statistical significance between the signal intensity of deglycosylated PD-L1 and the survival of patients (P=0.9099). However, the response to deglycosylation of PD-L1 was significantly correlated with the survival of patients with stage N1-N3 (P=0.0435) and stage T3-T4 (P=0.0366) and male patients (P=0.0258). A statistical trend was found in the correlation between the response to deglycosylation of PD-L1 and the survival of patients with grade II–III plus grade III (P=0.0973). Correlation between EGFR or ALK status and the expression of PD-L1 was not found (P> 0.05).Conclusion: PD-L1 deglycosylation enhances the detection of PD-L1 when utilizing a 28– 8 antibody. Moreover, the response to deglycosylation of PD-L1 may predict the survival of certain patients with lung adenocarcinoma.Keywords: programmed death ligand 1, deglycosylation, lung adenocarcinoma, mutation, survival