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Title: Hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha up-regulates CD70 under hypoxia and enhances anchorage-independent growth and aggressiveness in cancer cells
Authors: Kitajima, Shojiro
Lee, Kian Leong
Fujioka, Masaki
Sun, Wendi
You, Jia
Chia, Grace Sushin
Wanibuchi, Hideki
Tomita, Shuhei
Araki, Marito
Kato, Hiroyuki
Poellinger, Lorenz
Keywords: HIF-2α
Hypoxia
Issue Date: 2018
Source: Kitajima, S., Lee, K. L., Fujioka, M., Sun, W., You, J., Chia, G. S., et al. (2018). Hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha up-regulates CD70 under hypoxia and enhances anchorage-independent growth and aggressiveness in cancer cells. Oncotarget, 9(27), 19123-19135.
Series/Report no.: Oncotarget
Abstract: Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) facilitate cellular adaptation to environmental stress such as low oxygen conditions (hypoxia) and consequently promote tumor growth. While HIF-1α functions in cancer progression have been increasingly recognized, the contribution of HIF-2α remains widely unclear despite accumulating reports showing its overexpression in cancer cells. Here, we report that HIF-2α up-regulates the expression of CD70, a cancer-related surface antigen that improves anchorage-independent growth in cancer cells and is associated with poor clinical prognosis, which can be induced via epigenetic modifications mediated by DNMT1. The ablation of CD70 by RNAi led to decreased colony forming efficiency in soft agar. Most strikingly, we identified the emergence of CD70-expressing cells derived from CD70-negative cell lines upon prolonged hypoxia exposure or DNMT1 inhibition, both of which significantly reduced CpG-nucleotide methylations within CD70 promoter region. Interestingly, DNMT1 expression was decreased under hypoxia, which was rescued by HIF-2α knockdown. In addition, the expression of CD70 and colony forming efficiency in soft agar were decreased by knockdown of HIF-2α. These findings indicate that CD70 expression and an aggressive phenotype of cancer cells is driven under hypoxic conditions and mediated by HIF-2α functions and epigenetic modifications. This provides additional insights into the role of HIF-2α in coordinated regulation of stem-like functions and epigenetics that are important for cancer progression and may present additional targets for the development of novel combinatorial therapeutics.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89031
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44766
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.24919
Schools: School of Biological Sciences 
Rights: © 2018 The Author(s) (published by Impact Journals). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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