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Functional Interaction of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 2-Alpha and Autophagy Mediates Drug Resistance in Colon Cancer Cells
Hypoxia and the accumulation of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) in tumors have been associated with therapeutic resistance and with autophagy establishment. We examined the effects of stable knockdown of HIF-1α or HIF-2α expression on autophagy and drug resistance in colon cancer cells. We found th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6627604/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31151160 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers11060755 |
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author | Saint-Martin, Abril Martínez-Ríos, Jacobo Castañeda-Patlán, M. Cristina Sarabia-Sánchez, Miguel Angel Tejeda-Muñoz, Nydia Chinney-Herrera, Alberto Soldevila, Gloria Benelli, Roberto Santoyo-Ramos, Paula Poggi, Alessandro Robles-Flores, Martha |
author_facet | Saint-Martin, Abril Martínez-Ríos, Jacobo Castañeda-Patlán, M. Cristina Sarabia-Sánchez, Miguel Angel Tejeda-Muñoz, Nydia Chinney-Herrera, Alberto Soldevila, Gloria Benelli, Roberto Santoyo-Ramos, Paula Poggi, Alessandro Robles-Flores, Martha |
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description | Hypoxia and the accumulation of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) in tumors have been associated with therapeutic resistance and with autophagy establishment. We examined the effects of stable knockdown of HIF-1α or HIF-2α expression on autophagy and drug resistance in colon cancer cells. We found that under normoxic conditions, malignant cells exhibit increased basal levels of autophagy, compared with non-malignant cells, in addition to the previously reported coexpression of HIF-1α and HIF-2α. Knockdown of HIF-1α or HIF-2α expression resulted in increased autophagic and apoptotic cell death, indicating that the survival of cells is HIF-dependent. Cytotoxic-induced cell death was significantly increased by knockdown of HIFs but not by autophagy inhibition. Strikingly, although malignancy-resistant cells were sensitized to death by nutrient stress, the combination with HIF-2α depletion, but not with HIF-1α depletion, induced severe cell death. Oxidative stress levels were significantly increased as a result of HIF-2α specific inhibition or silencing suggesting that this may contribute to sensitize cells to death. The in vitro results were confirmed in vivo using a xenograft mouse model. We found that coordinated autophagy and mTOR inhibition enhanced cell death and induced tumor remission only in HIF-2α-silenced cells. Finally, using a specific HIF-2α inhibitor alone or in combination with drugs in patient-derived primary colon cancer cells, overcame their resistance to 5-FU or CCI-779, thus emphasizing the crucial role played by HIF-2α in promoting resistance and cell survival. |
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spelling | pubmed-66276042019-07-23 Functional Interaction of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 2-Alpha and Autophagy Mediates Drug Resistance in Colon Cancer Cells Saint-Martin, Abril Martínez-Ríos, Jacobo Castañeda-Patlán, M. Cristina Sarabia-Sánchez, Miguel Angel Tejeda-Muñoz, Nydia Chinney-Herrera, Alberto Soldevila, Gloria Benelli, Roberto Santoyo-Ramos, Paula Poggi, Alessandro Robles-Flores, Martha Cancers (Basel) Article Hypoxia and the accumulation of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) in tumors have been associated with therapeutic resistance and with autophagy establishment. We examined the effects of stable knockdown of HIF-1α or HIF-2α expression on autophagy and drug resistance in colon cancer cells. We found that under normoxic conditions, malignant cells exhibit increased basal levels of autophagy, compared with non-malignant cells, in addition to the previously reported coexpression of HIF-1α and HIF-2α. Knockdown of HIF-1α or HIF-2α expression resulted in increased autophagic and apoptotic cell death, indicating that the survival of cells is HIF-dependent. Cytotoxic-induced cell death was significantly increased by knockdown of HIFs but not by autophagy inhibition. Strikingly, although malignancy-resistant cells were sensitized to death by nutrient stress, the combination with HIF-2α depletion, but not with HIF-1α depletion, induced severe cell death. Oxidative stress levels were significantly increased as a result of HIF-2α specific inhibition or silencing suggesting that this may contribute to sensitize cells to death. The in vitro results were confirmed in vivo using a xenograft mouse model. We found that coordinated autophagy and mTOR inhibition enhanced cell death and induced tumor remission only in HIF-2α-silenced cells. Finally, using a specific HIF-2α inhibitor alone or in combination with drugs in patient-derived primary colon cancer cells, overcame their resistance to 5-FU or CCI-779, thus emphasizing the crucial role played by HIF-2α in promoting resistance and cell survival. MDPI 2019-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6627604/ /pubmed/31151160 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers11060755 Text en © 2019 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Saint-Martin, Abril Martínez-Ríos, Jacobo Castañeda-Patlán, M. Cristina Sarabia-Sánchez, Miguel Angel Tejeda-Muñoz, Nydia Chinney-Herrera, Alberto Soldevila, Gloria Benelli, Roberto Santoyo-Ramos, Paula Poggi, Alessandro Robles-Flores, Martha Functional Interaction of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 2-Alpha and Autophagy Mediates Drug Resistance in Colon Cancer Cells |
title | Functional Interaction of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 2-Alpha and Autophagy Mediates Drug Resistance in Colon Cancer Cells |
title_full | Functional Interaction of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 2-Alpha and Autophagy Mediates Drug Resistance in Colon Cancer Cells |
title_fullStr | Functional Interaction of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 2-Alpha and Autophagy Mediates Drug Resistance in Colon Cancer Cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Functional Interaction of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 2-Alpha and Autophagy Mediates Drug Resistance in Colon Cancer Cells |
title_short | Functional Interaction of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 2-Alpha and Autophagy Mediates Drug Resistance in Colon Cancer Cells |
title_sort | functional interaction of hypoxia-inducible factor 2-alpha and autophagy mediates drug resistance in colon cancer cells |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6627604/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31151160 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers11060755 |
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