PMID- 18421307 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080903 LR - 20131121 IS - 1476-5500 (Electronic) IS - 0929-1903 (Linking) VI - 15 IP - 7 DP - 2008 Jul TI - Effects of lentivirus-mediated HIF-1alpha knockdown on hypoxia-related cisplatin resistance and their dependence on p53 status in fibrosarcoma cells. PG - 449-55 LID - 10.1038/cgt.2008.4 [doi] AB - Therapy targeting hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) to reverse the hypoxia-related drug resistance has received much interest. Despite a close interaction between HIF-1 and p53 and that p53 mutation is seen in >50% of tumors, whether HIF-1 silencing by targeted therapy depends on tumor p53 status remains unknown. Two isogenic fibrosarcoma cells HT1080 (wild-type p53) and HT1080-6TG (mutant p53) were transduced with HIF-1alpha-specific RNAi lentiviral vectors and selected with blasticidin. Real-time PCR and western blot analysis of HIF-1alpha mRNA and protein respectively validated the silencing effects. Cells were first preconditioned under hypoxia (0.5% O(2)) for 4 h and then co-treated with cisplatin for another 24 h. MTT was used for assessment of chemosensitivity to cisplatin. Moreover, annexin V and propidium iodide staining was detected on flow cytometry for analysis of cisplatin-induced apoptosis. Furthermore, changes of some Bcl-2 family members were detected on western blotting. Exposure to hypoxia significantly increased resistance to cisplatin than exposure to normoxia. HIF-1alpha knockdown could reverse hypoxia-related resistance to cisplatin and apoptotic resistance only in HT1080 cells, but had little effect on HT1080-6TG cells. With HIF-1alpha knockdown, Bid expression was higher in HT1080 than in HT1080-6TG under hypoxia. In summary, HIF-1 targeted therapy to reverse hypoxia-related cisplatin resistance depends on normal p53 status. Changes of Bid expression levels under hypoxia might contribute in part to the differential response to HIF-1alpha silencing in cells with different p53 status. FAU - Hao, J AU - Hao J AD - Department of Oncology, Cancer Center, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China. FAU - Song, X AU - Song X FAU - Song, B AU - Song B FAU - Liu, Y AU - Liu Y FAU - Wei, L AU - Wei L FAU - Wang, X AU - Wang X FAU - Yu, J AU - Yu J LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20080418 PL - England TA - Cancer Gene Ther JT - Cancer gene therapy JID - 9432230 RN - 0 (Annexin A5) RN - 0 (DNA Primers) RN - 0 (HIF1A protein, human) RN - 0 (Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) RN - Q20Q21Q62J (Cisplatin) SB - IM MH - Annexin A5/metabolism MH - Apoptosis/drug effects MH - Blotting, Western MH - Cell Hypoxia/*physiology MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Cisplatin/*pharmacology MH - DNA Primers/genetics MH - Dose-Response Relationship, Drug MH - Drug Resistance/*genetics MH - Flow Cytometry MH - Gene Silencing MH - Genetic Vectors/genetics MH - Humans MH - Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit/*genetics/metabolism MH - Inhibitory Concentration 50 MH - Lentivirus/*genetics MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*metabolism EDAT- 2008/04/19 09:00 MHDA- 2008/09/04 09:00 CRDT- 2008/04/19 09:00 PHST- 2008/04/19 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/09/04 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/04/19 09:00 [entrez] AID - cgt20084 [pii] AID - 10.1038/cgt.2008.4 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cancer Gene Ther. 2008 Jul;15(7):449-55. doi: 10.1038/cgt.2008.4. Epub 2008 Apr 18.