Abstract 4985: PD-L1 and diacylglycerol kinase alpha (DGKA) expression in melanoma, nsclc and bladder cancers

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Abstract Diacylglycerol kinase alpha (DGKA) functions as lipid kinase to phosphorylate the lipid diacylglycerol (DAG). DGKA has been characterized to negative regulate the Ras-MAPK pathway in T lymphocytes. A 2018 study using crispr knockouts of DGKA have shown the anti tumor activity of T-cells continue to increase in the presence of PD-L1 positive tumor cells. Little is known about the expression patterns of DGKA in human cancer. In our previous study, we explore the tumor micro environment with a number of immune cell markers such as CD3, CD8A, CD20, CD68, TIM3 and LAG3 with PD-L1 expression in melanoma, NSCLC, and bladder cancer and found a few unique signatures for these cancers. In this study, we evaluate expression pattern of DGKA in various cancers by immunohistochemistry to elucidate the signature profile of DGKA expression with PD-L1 and other markers in the PD-L1 tumor micro environment. Citation Format: Rachel M. Gonzalez, Tianli Qu, Xiaomin Hu, Qi Ren, Qiankun Zhang, Zhaoying Guo, Young-Hwan Kim, Yiran Wang, Xuan Liu, Wei Fu. PD-L1 and diacylglycerol kinase alpha (DGKA) expression in melanoma, nsclc and bladder cancers [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research 2020; 2020 Apr 27-28 and Jun 22-24. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2020;80(16 Suppl):Abstract nr 4985.