PMID- 23225225 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130827 LR - 20211008 IS - 1097-4644 (Electronic) IS - 0730-2312 (Linking) VI - 114 IP - 5 DP - 2013 May TI - HIFs, angiogenesis, and cancer. PG - 967-74 LID - 10.1002/jcb.24438 [doi] AB - Tumor hypoxia was first described in the 1950s by radiation oncologists as a frequent cause of failure to radiotherapy in solid tumors. Today, it is evident that tumor hypoxia is a common feature of many cancers and the master regulator of hypoxia, hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), regulates multiple aspects of tumorigenesis, including angiogenesis, proliferation, metabolism, metastasis, differentiation, and response to radiation therapy. Although the tumor hypoxia response mechanism leads to a multitude of downstream effects, it is angiogenesis that is most crucial and also most susceptible to molecular manipulation. The delineation of molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis has revealed a critical role for HIF-1 in the regulation of angiogenic growth factors. In this article, we review what has been described about HIF-1: its structure, its regulation, and its implication for cancer therapy and we focus on its role in angiogenesis and cancer. CI - Copyright (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. FAU - Yang, Yongzhi AU - Yang Y AD - Student Teams Research Management Unit, Second Military Medical University, Xiangyin Road, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China. FAU - Sun, Mingjuan AU - Sun M FAU - Wang, Lianghua AU - Wang L FAU - Jiao, Binghua AU - Jiao B LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review PL - United States TA - J Cell Biochem JT - Journal of cellular biochemistry JID - 8205768 RN - 0 (Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Humans MH - Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - Models, Biological MH - Neoplasms/*blood supply/*metabolism/pathology MH - Neovascularization, Pathologic/*metabolism MH - Signal Transduction EDAT- 2012/12/12 06:00 MHDA- 2013/08/28 06:00 CRDT- 2012/12/11 06:00 PHST- 2012/09/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/10/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2012/12/11 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/12/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/08/28 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/jcb.24438 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Cell Biochem. 2013 May;114(5):967-74. doi: 10.1002/jcb.24438.