PMID- 19123465 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090303 LR - 20160303 IS - 1097-0215 (Electronic) IS - 0020-7136 (Linking) VI - 124 IP - 7 DP - 2009 Apr 1 TI - Hypoxia-mediated up-regulation of MGr1-Ag/37LRP in gastric cancers occurs via hypoxia-inducible-factor 1-dependent mechanism and contributes to drug resistance. PG - 1707-15 LID - 10.1002/ijc.24135 [doi] AB - Our previous study demonstrated hypoxia-inducible factor-1(HIF-1) could prompt multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype and MGr1-Ag/37LRP, a novel drug-resistance protein was reported by our labortary, associated with multidrug resistance in gastric cancer. Given this association, we hypothesized that MGr1-Ag/37LRP contributed to HIF-1-dependent hypoxia-induced MDR phenotype. Initial experiments revealed that blocking MGr1-Ag/37LRP expression by siRNA in gastric cancer cells effectively reversed multidrug resistance phenotype induced by hypoxia. Subsequent analysis of MGr1-Ag/37LRP mRNA and protein in gastric cancer cells revealed a time-dependent manner increase with hypoxia. While the up-regulation of MGr1-Ag/37LRP was abolished by HIF-1 inhibition with siRNA. Studies using luciferase promoter constructs revealed a significant increase in activity in cells subject to hypoxia and such hypoxia inducibility was lost in cells co-transfected siRNA targeting HIF-1. Analysis of the MGr1-Ag/37LRP promoter revealed several potential binding sites for HIF-1. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay and chromatin immunoprecipitation demonstrated a functional HIF-1 binding site within MGr1-Ag/37LRP gene regulatory sequence located at -16 to -11 relative to the transcriptional initiation point. These observations demonstrate that MGr1-Ag/37LRP is actively engaged by hypoxia and represent a novel HIF-1 target. Such results suggest hypoxia-elicited MGr1-Ag/37LRP expression as a pathway for resistance of gastric cancer to chemotherapeutics. FAU - Liu, Lili AU - Liu L AD - State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China. FAU - Sun, Li AU - Sun L FAU - Zhang, Hongbo AU - Zhang H FAU - Li, Zhichao AU - Li Z FAU - Ning, Xiaoxuan AU - Ning X FAU - Shi, Yongquan AU - Shi Y FAU - Guo, Changcun AU - Guo C FAU - Han, Shuang AU - Han S FAU - Wu, Kaichun AU - Wu K FAU - Fan, Daiming AU - Fan D LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Int J Cancer JT - International journal of cancer JID - 0042124 RN - 0 (Antigens, Neoplasm) RN - 0 (HIF1A protein, human) RN - 0 (Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit) RN - 0 (MGr1-antigen, human) RN - 0 (RNA, Small Interfering) SB - IM MH - Adenocarcinoma/genetics/*metabolism MH - Animals MH - Antigens, Neoplasm/genetics/*metabolism MH - Blotting, Western MH - Cell Hypoxia/*physiology MH - Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/*physiology MH - Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay MH - Gene Expression Regulation/physiology MH - Humans MH - Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit/*metabolism MH - Immunoprecipitation MH - Mice MH - RNA, Small Interfering MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Stomach Neoplasms/genetics/*metabolism MH - Up-Regulation EDAT- 2009/01/07 09:00 MHDA- 2009/03/04 09:00 CRDT- 2009/01/07 09:00 PHST- 2009/01/07 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/01/07 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/03/04 09:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/ijc.24135 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Cancer. 2009 Apr 1;124(7):1707-15. doi: 10.1002/ijc.24135.