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SHMT2 Promotes Gastric Cancer Development through Regulation of HIF1α/VEGF/STAT3 Signaling
The metabolic enzymes involved in one-carbon metabolism are closely associated with tumor progression and could be potential targets for cancer therapy. Recent studies showed that serine hydroxymethyltransferase 2 (SHMT2), a crucial enzyme in the one-carbon metabolic pathway, plays a key role in tum...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138966/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37108312 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24087150 |
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author | Wang, Weida Wang, Mingjin Du, Tingting Hou, Zhenyan You, Shen Zhang, Sen Ji, Ming Xue, Nina Chen, Xiaoguang |
author_facet | Wang, Weida Wang, Mingjin Du, Tingting Hou, Zhenyan You, Shen Zhang, Sen Ji, Ming Xue, Nina Chen, Xiaoguang |
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description | The metabolic enzymes involved in one-carbon metabolism are closely associated with tumor progression and could be potential targets for cancer therapy. Recent studies showed that serine hydroxymethyltransferase 2 (SHMT2), a crucial enzyme in the one-carbon metabolic pathway, plays a key role in tumor proliferation and development. However, the precise role and function of SHMT2 in gastric cancer (GC) remain poorly understood. In this study, we presented evidence that SHMT2 was necessary for hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF1α) stability and contributed to GC cells’ hypoxic adaptation. The analysis of datasets retrieved from The Cancer Genome Atlas and the experimentation with human cell lines revealed a marked increase in SHMT2 expression in GC. The SHMT2 knockdown in MGC803, SGC7901, and HGC27 cell lines inhibited cell proliferation, colony formation, invasion, and migration. Notably, SHMT2 depletion disrupted redox homeostasis and caused glycolytic function loss in GC cells under hypoxic circumstances. Mechanistically, we discovered SHMT2 modulated HIF1α stability, which acted as a master regulator of hypoxia-inducible genes under hypoxic conditions. This, in turn, regulated the downstream VEGF and STAT3 pathways. The in vivo xenograft experiments showed that SHMT2 knockdown markedly reduced GC growth. Our results elucidate the novel function of SHMT2 in stabilizing HIF1α under hypoxic conditions, thus providing a potential therapeutic strategy for GC treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-101389662023-04-28 SHMT2 Promotes Gastric Cancer Development through Regulation of HIF1α/VEGF/STAT3 Signaling Wang, Weida Wang, Mingjin Du, Tingting Hou, Zhenyan You, Shen Zhang, Sen Ji, Ming Xue, Nina Chen, Xiaoguang Int J Mol Sci Article The metabolic enzymes involved in one-carbon metabolism are closely associated with tumor progression and could be potential targets for cancer therapy. Recent studies showed that serine hydroxymethyltransferase 2 (SHMT2), a crucial enzyme in the one-carbon metabolic pathway, plays a key role in tumor proliferation and development. However, the precise role and function of SHMT2 in gastric cancer (GC) remain poorly understood. In this study, we presented evidence that SHMT2 was necessary for hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF1α) stability and contributed to GC cells’ hypoxic adaptation. The analysis of datasets retrieved from The Cancer Genome Atlas and the experimentation with human cell lines revealed a marked increase in SHMT2 expression in GC. The SHMT2 knockdown in MGC803, SGC7901, and HGC27 cell lines inhibited cell proliferation, colony formation, invasion, and migration. Notably, SHMT2 depletion disrupted redox homeostasis and caused glycolytic function loss in GC cells under hypoxic circumstances. Mechanistically, we discovered SHMT2 modulated HIF1α stability, which acted as a master regulator of hypoxia-inducible genes under hypoxic conditions. This, in turn, regulated the downstream VEGF and STAT3 pathways. The in vivo xenograft experiments showed that SHMT2 knockdown markedly reduced GC growth. Our results elucidate the novel function of SHMT2 in stabilizing HIF1α under hypoxic conditions, thus providing a potential therapeutic strategy for GC treatment. MDPI 2023-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10138966/ /pubmed/37108312 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24087150 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Weida Wang, Mingjin Du, Tingting Hou, Zhenyan You, Shen Zhang, Sen Ji, Ming Xue, Nina Chen, Xiaoguang SHMT2 Promotes Gastric Cancer Development through Regulation of HIF1α/VEGF/STAT3 Signaling |
title | SHMT2 Promotes Gastric Cancer Development through Regulation of HIF1α/VEGF/STAT3 Signaling |
title_full | SHMT2 Promotes Gastric Cancer Development through Regulation of HIF1α/VEGF/STAT3 Signaling |
title_fullStr | SHMT2 Promotes Gastric Cancer Development through Regulation of HIF1α/VEGF/STAT3 Signaling |
title_full_unstemmed | SHMT2 Promotes Gastric Cancer Development through Regulation of HIF1α/VEGF/STAT3 Signaling |
title_short | SHMT2 Promotes Gastric Cancer Development through Regulation of HIF1α/VEGF/STAT3 Signaling |
title_sort | shmt2 promotes gastric cancer development through regulation of hif1α/vegf/stat3 signaling |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138966/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37108312 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24087150 |
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