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A hypoxia-independent up-regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 by AKT contributes to angiogenesis in human gastric cancer

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Authors

Lee, Byung Lan; Kim, Woo Ho; Jung, Jieun; Cho, Sung Jin; Park, Jong-Wan; Kim, Jihyen; Chung, Hee-Yong; Chang, Mee Soo; Nam, Seon Young

Issue Date
2007-11-07
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Citation
Carcinogenesis. 2008 Jan;29(1):44-51. Epub 2007 Nov 4.
Keywords
AnimalsBase SequenceCell HypoxiaCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationDNA PrimersEnzyme ActivationFemaleHumansHypoxia-Inducible Factor 1/*metabolismImmunohistochemistryMiceMice, NudePhosphorylationProto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/*metabolismRNA, Messenger/geneticsStomach Neoplasms/*blood supply/enzymology/metabolismVascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/geneticsNeovascularization, PathologicUp-Regulation
Abstract
Underlying mechanisms involved in the activation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) in cancer cells are diverse and cell type specific. Although both HIF-1alpha and AKT (protein kinase B) have been implicated in gastric tumor promotion and angiogenesis, it remains unclear whether HIF-1 mediates the role of AKT in terms of promoting vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression. The present study was performed to investigate the correlation between HIF-1alpha activation and AKT activation in gastric cancer using human gastric cancer specimens, in vitro cell experiments and in vivo animal experiments. Immunohistochemistry performed on tissue array slides containing 268 surgical specimens of gastric carcinomas showed immunoreactivity for HIF-1alpha in 29% of samples. Moreover, HIF-1alpha was positively associated with phosphorylated AKT (pAKT) (P = 0.002) or VEGF (P = 0.002), and the immunoreactivities of pAKT and VEGF were positively correlated (P < 0.001). Western blot analysis and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in cell experiments revealed that the over-expression of constitutively active AKT (CA-AKT) promotes the expressions of HIF-1alpha protein and VEGF messenger ribonucleic acid in Seoul national university (SNU)-216 and SNU-668 gastric cancer cells under normoxic conditions, whereas kinase-dead mutant of AKT down-regulated these expressions under the same conditions. Xenografts in nude mice derived from stable gastric cancer cells over-expressing CA-AKT showed higher tumor incidence, larger tumor volumes, higher microvessel density and stronger HIF-1alpha immunoreactivity than those derived from vector control cells. Thus, we propose that the hypoxia-independent promotion of the AKT-HIF-1alpha-VEGF pathway contributes, at least in part, to gastric cancer tumorigenesis and angiogenesis.
ISSN
1460-2180 (Electronic)
Language
English
URI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17984117

https://hdl.handle.net/10371/29104
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/bgm232
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