PMID- 33142239 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210816 LR - 20210816 IS - 1476-5586 (Electronic) IS - 1522-8002 (Print) IS - 1476-5586 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 12 DP - 2020 Dec TI - Tumor cell endogenous HIF-1alpha activity induces aberrant angiogenesis and interacts with TRAF6 pathway required for colorectal cancer development. PG - 745-758 LID - S1476-5586(20)30161-5 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.neo.2020.10.006 [doi] AB - Hypoxia and inflammation are key factors for colorectal cancer tumorigenesis. The colonic epithelium belongs to the tissues with the lowest partial pressure of oxygen in the body, and chronic inflammation is associated with an increased chance to develop colon cancer. How the colonic epithelium responds to hypoxia and inflammation during tumorigenesis remains to be elucidated. Here we show, that murine colon adenocarcinoma cells with attenuated response to hypoxia, due to a knock-down (KD) of HIF-1alpha, produce smaller and less hypoxic tumors in an orthotopic mouse model when compared to tumors induced with control cells. HIF-1alpha-KD tumors showed more functional perfused vasculature associated with increased levels of vessel-stabilizing factors and reduced levels of proangiogenic factors, including extracellular matrix protein Cyr61/CCN1. Intratumoral injection of Cyr61 in HIF-1alpha-KD tumors revealed an in increased vessel permeability and tumor hypoxia. Further bioinformatics analysis identified a possible interaction between HIF-1alpha and TRAF6, an upstream effector of the NF-kappaB pathway that was confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation in MC-38 and CT26 colon adenocarcinoma cells and in situ by proximity ligation assay. Down-regulation of TRAF6 resulted in virtual abrogation of orthotopic tumor growth. Subcutaneous TRAF6-KD tumors were smaller and contained reduced vessel size and differently polarized macrophages. These data demonstrate that the tumor cell response to increased hypoxia in the colon leads to promotion of nonfunctional angiogenesis, regulated by both hypoxia and TRAF6 pathways. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Glaus Garzon, Jesus F AU - Glaus Garzon JF AD - Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. FAU - Pastrello, Chiara AU - Pastrello C AD - Krembil Research Institute, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada. FAU - Jurisica, Igor AU - Jurisica I AD - Krembil Research Institute, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada; Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. FAU - Hottiger, Michael O AU - Hottiger MO AD - Department of Molecular Mechanism of Disease, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. FAU - Wenger, Roland H AU - Wenger RH AD - Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. FAU - Borsig, Lubor AU - Borsig L AD - Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: lborsig@access.uzh.ch. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20201024 PL - United States TA - Neoplasia JT - Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) JID - 100886622 RN - 0 (Hif1a protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit) RN - 0 (Inflammation Mediators) RN - 0 (NF-kappa B) RN - 0 (TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 6) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Capillary Permeability MH - Cell Hypoxia MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Colorectal Neoplasms/*etiology/*metabolism/pathology MH - *Disease Susceptibility MH - Gene Knockdown Techniques MH - Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit/*metabolism MH - Immunohistochemistry MH - Inflammation Mediators/metabolism MH - Mice MH - NF-kappa B/metabolism MH - Neovascularization, Pathologic/genetics/*metabolism MH - Protein Binding MH - TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 6/genetics/*metabolism MH - Tumor Microenvironment PMC - PMC7588814 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Colorectal cancer OT - HIF-1alpha OT - Inflammation OT - TRAF6 OT - Tumor hypoxia OT - Tumorigenesis EDAT- 2020/11/04 06:00 MHDA- 2021/08/17 06:00 PMCR- 2020/10/24 CRDT- 2020/11/03 20:14 PHST- 2020/07/20 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/10/04 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/10/04 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/11/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/08/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/11/03 20:14 [entrez] PHST- 2020/10/24 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S1476-5586(20)30161-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.neo.2020.10.006 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neoplasia. 2020 Dec;22(12):745-758. doi: 10.1016/j.neo.2020.10.006. Epub 2020 Oct 24.