|  Tissue Specificity  |   Highly expressed in the heart, thymus, skeletal muscle, and lung. Weakly expressed in the kidney, spleen, thyroid, and liver. Expressed on activated dendritic cells, B-cells and macrophages. Expressed in numerous tumor cells lines of lymphoid origin.  |  
  |  Post Translational Modifications  |   Ubiquitinated.STUB1 likely mediates polyubiquitination of PD-L1/CD274 triggering its degradation. Ubiquitinated by MARCHF8.leading to degradation. Deubiquitinated by USP22.leading to stabilization.  |  
  |  Function  |   Plays a critical role in induction and maintenance of immune tolerance to self. As a ligand for the inhibitory receptor PDCD1/PD-1, modulates the activation threshold of T-cells and limits T-cell effector response. Through a yet unknown activating receptor, may costimulate T-cell subsets that predominantly produce interleukin-10 (IL10). The PDCD1-mediated inhibitory pathway is exploited by tumors to attenuate anti-tumor immunity and escape destruction by the immune system, thereby facilitating tumor survival. The interaction with PDCD1/PD-1 inhibits cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) effector function. The blockage of the PDCD1-mediated pathway results in the reversal of the exhausted T-cell phenotype and the normalization of the anti-tumor response, providing a rationale for cancer immunotherapy.  |  
  |  Protein Name  |   Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 1Pd-L1Pdcd1 Ligand 1Programmed Death Ligand 1B7 Homolog 1B7-H1Cd Antigen Cd274  |  
  |  Database Links  |   Reactome: R-MMU-389948  |  
  |  Cellular Localisation  |   Cell MembraneSingle-Pass Type I Membrane ProteinEarly Endosome MembraneRecycling Endosome Membrane  |  
  |  Alternative Antibody Names  |   Anti-Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 1 antibodyAnti-Pd-L1 antibodyAnti-Pdcd1 Ligand 1 antibodyAnti-Programmed Death Ligand 1 antibodyAnti-B7 Homolog 1 antibodyAnti-B7-H1 antibodyAnti-Cd Antigen Cd274 antibodyAnti-Cd274 antibodyAnti-B7h1 antibodyAnti-Pdcd1l1 antibodyAnti-Pdcd1lg1 antibodyAnti-Pdl1 antibody  |  
 
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