CD274 and gastric cancer: To investigate the potential effect of autophagy on PD-L1 expression, pharmacological inhibitors, including 3-MA at 10 mM, chloroquine at 32 μM and bafilomycin A1 at 10 nM, that blocks an early stage of autophagy or interferes with lysosomal function, were used to inhibit autophagy in two gastric cancer cell lines AGS and NCI-n87.