2. Tumor-promoting phorbol esters such as TPA mimic the lipid second messenger diacylglycerol. The tumor promoting...

2. Tumor-promoting phorbol esters such as TPA mimic the lipid second messenger diacylglycerol. The tumor promoting effects are most likely due to the suppression of TGF beta signals.

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Ans: False. TGF beta signals induce the tumor promoting effect

soln: Phorbol esters are natural products derived from plants of the family Euphorbiaceae. it show similarities with a serine/threonine protein kinase activity referred to as protein kinase C (PKC). The tumor promoting phorbol esters function as structural mimetics of the second lipid messenger diacylglycerol (DAG) by binding to the C1 domain of DAG receptors.

The TGF-β could induce immune suppression by promoting the formation of T cell-exclusion phenotype tumors which were prone too resistant to ICI treatment. TGF-β pathway broadly inhibits multiple anti-cancer producers including T cell priming and activation, immunosuppressive lymphocyte differentiation, cytotoxic function of effectors and In advanced cancer, it induces tumor progression and metastasis, thus serving as an oncogenic factor.

TGF-β inhibits NK-cell effector functions and in this way contributes to a permissive microenvironment for tumor progression.

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