Hypoxia upregulates the gene expression of mitochondrial aconitase in prostate carcinoma cells

Ke Hung Tsui, Li Chuan Chung, Shyi Wu Wang, Tsui Hsia Feng, Phei Lang Chang, Horng Heng Juang*

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摘要

Hypoxia induces metabolic alteration in cancer cells by stabilizing hypoxia-inducible factor 1a (HIF-1a (HIF1A)), which regulates the bioenergetic genes of glycolysis and lipid metabolic pathways. However, the target genes of hypoxia-induced metabolic alterations in the prostate remain uncertain. Mitochondrial aconitase (mACON) (ACONM) is an enzyme that is central to carbohydrate and energy metabolism and is responsible for the interconversion of citrate to isocitrate as part of the citric acid cycle in the human prostate. We evaluated the effects of the molecular mechanisms of hypoxia on mACON gene expression in PC-3 and LNCaP human prostate carcinoma cells. Immunoblotting assays revealed that hypoxia modulated mACON and lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) protein expression, while these effects were attenuated when HIF-1a was knocked down. Hypoxia induced fatty acid synthase (FASN) in PC-3 cells while hypoxia blocked FASN gene expression in LNCaP cells after 24-h incubation. Results of real-time RT-qPCR, immunoblotting, and transient gene expression assays revealed that hypoxia treatment or co-transfection with HIF-1a expression vector enhanced gene expression of mACON, implying that hypoxia modulated mACON at the transcriptional level. Hypoxia-induced mACON promoter activity is dependent on the DNA fragment located at K1013 to K842 upstream of the translation initiation site. L-mimosine, an iron chelator, stabilized HIF-1a but downregulated mACON gene expression, suggesting that iron chelation blocked the hypoxia-induced mACON gene expression. These results suggest that hypoxia dysregulates the expressions of LDHA, FASN, and mACON genes, and the hypoxia-induced mACON gene expression is via the HIF-1a-dependent and iron-dependent pathways in prostate carcinoma cells.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)131-141
頁數11
期刊Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
51
發行號1
DOIs
出版狀態已出版 - 2013

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