PMID- 29930749 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20191120 IS - 1949-2553 (Electronic) IS - 1949-2553 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 43 DP - 2018 Jun 5 TI - Hypoxia leads to decreased autophosphorylation of the MET receptor but promotes its resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. PG - 27039-27058 LID - 10.18632/oncotarget.25472 [doi] AB - The receptor tyrosine kinase MET and its ligand, the Hepatocyte Growth Factor/Scattor Factor (HGF/SF), are essential to the migration, morphogenesis, and survival of epithelial cells. In addition, dysregulation of MET signaling has been shown to promote tumor progression and invasion in many cancers. Therefore, HGF/SF and MET are major targets for chemotherapies. Improvement of targeted therapies requires a perfect understanding of tumor microenvironment that strongly modifies half-life, bio-accessibility and thus, efficacy of treatments. In particular, hypoxia is a crucial microenvironmental phenomenon promoting invasion and resistance to treatments. Under hypoxia, MET auto-phosphorylation resulting from ligand stimulation or from receptor overexpression is drastically decreased within minutes of oxygen deprivation but is quickly reversible upon return to normoxia. Besides a decreased phosphorylation of its proximal adaptor GAB1 under hypoxia, activation of the downstream kinases Erk and Akt is maintained, while still being dependent on MET receptor. Consistently, several cellular responses induced by HGF/SF, including motility, morphogenesis, and survival are effectively induced under hypoxia. Interestingly, using a semi-synthetic ligand, we show that HGF/SF binding to MET is strongly impaired during hypoxia but can be quickly restored upon reoxygenation. Finally, we show that two MET-targeting tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are less efficient on MET signalling under hypoxia. Like MET loss of phosphorylation, this hypoxia-induced resistance to TKIs is reversible under normoxia. Thus, although hypoxia does not affect downstream signaling or cellular responses induced by MET, it causes immediate resistance to TKIs. These results may prove useful when designing and evaluation of MET-targeted therapies against cancer. FAU - Mekki, Meriem Sarah AU - Mekki MS AD - University Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8161 - M3T - Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis and Target Therapies, F-59000 Lille, France. FAU - Mougel, Alexandra AU - Mougel A AD - University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - CIIL -Centre d'Infection et d'Immunite de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France. FAU - Vinchent, Audrey AU - Vinchent A AD - University Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8161 - M3T - Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis and Target Therapies, F-59000 Lille, France. FAU - Paquet, Charlotte AU - Paquet C AD - University Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8161 - M3T - Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis and Target Therapies, F-59000 Lille, France. FAU - Copin, Marie-Christine AU - Copin MC AD - University Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8161 - M3T - Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis and Target Therapies, F-59000 Lille, France. AD - University Lille, Institut de Pathologie, CHU Lille, Avenue Oscar Lambret, F-59000 Lille, France. FAU - Leroy, Catherine AU - Leroy C AD - University Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8161 - M3T - Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis and Target Therapies, F-59000 Lille, France. FAU - Kherrouche, Zoulika AU - Kherrouche Z AD - University Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8161 - M3T - Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis and Target Therapies, F-59000 Lille, France. FAU - Bonte, Jean-Paul AU - Bonte JP AD - EA 4481 Faculte des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Universite de Lille, 59006 Lille, France. FAU - Melnyk, Oleg AU - Melnyk O AD - University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - CIIL -Centre d'Infection et d'Immunite de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France. FAU - Vicogne, Jerome AU - Vicogne J AD - University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 - UMR 8204 - CIIL -Centre d'Infection et d'Immunite de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France. FAU - Tulasne, David AU - Tulasne D AD - University Lille, CNRS, Institut Pasteur de Lille, UMR 8161 - M3T - Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis and Target Therapies, F-59000 Lille, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180605 PL - United States TA - Oncotarget JT - Oncotarget JID - 101532965 PMC - PMC6007473 OTO - NOTNLM OT - MET OT - hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor OT - hypoxia OT - receptor tyrosine kinase OT - tyrosine kinase inhibitor COIS- CONFLICTS OF INTEREST The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest. EDAT- 2018/06/23 06:00 MHDA- 2018/06/23 06:01 PMCR- 2018/06/05 CRDT- 2018/06/23 06:00 PHST- 2015/11/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/05/08 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/06/23 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/06/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/06/23 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/06/05 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 25472 [pii] AID - 10.18632/oncotarget.25472 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Oncotarget. 2018 Jun 5;9(43):27039-27058. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.25472. eCollection 2018 Jun 5.