Project description:Alternative RNA splicing analysis in Hep3B cell cultured under 21% (N1,3,5) or 1.2% (H2,4,6) oxygen Hypoxia is a common characteristic of many solid tumors. The hypoxic microenvironment stabilizes hypoxia-inducible transcription factor 1? (HIF1?) and 2? (HIF2?) to activate gene transcription, which promotes tumor cell survival. 95% of human genes are alternatively spliced, producing RNA isoforms that code functionally distinct proteins. Thus, effective hypoxia response requires increased HIF target gene transcription as well as proper RNA splicing of these HIF target genes. However, it is unclear if and how hypoxia regulates RNA splicing of HIF target genes. This study determined the effects of hypoxia on alternative splicing (AS) of HIF and non-HIF target genes in Hep3B cells and characterized the role of HIF in regulating AS of HIF induced genes. The results indicated that hypoxia generally promotes exon inclusion for hypoxia-induced, but reduces exon inclusion for hypoxia reduced genes. Mechanistically, HIF activity, but not hypoxia per se is found to be necessary and sufficient to increase exon inclusion of several HIF target genes including pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 (PDK1). PDK1 splicing reporters confirmed that transcriptional activation by HIF is sufficient to increase exon inclusion of PDK1 splicing reporter. In contrast, transcriptional activation of the PDK1 minigene by other transcription factor in the absence of endogenous HIF target gene activation fails to alter PDK1 RNA splicing, demonstrating a novel role of HIF target gene(s) in regulating RNA splicing of HIF target genes. Implications:This study demonstrates a novel function of HIF in regulating RNA splicing of HIF target genes. We analyzed total RNA from Hep3B cells cultured under 21% (N1,3,5) or 1.2% (H2,4,6) oxygen using the Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST platform. Array data was processed by Altanalyze software version 2.0.7. Techinical replicates were performed for Nx and Hx treated Hep3B cells

Project description:The metabolic adaptation of eukaryotic cells to hypoxia involves increasing dependence upon glycolytic ATP production, an event with consequences for both cell bioenergetics and cell fate. This response is regulated at the transcriptional level by HIF-1-dependent transcriptional upregulation of all ten glycolytic enzymes. However, this response alone does not account for the levels of ATP produced in hypoxia. Here, we investigated additional mechanisms of regulating glycolysis in hypoxia. We found that both intestinal epithelial cells treated with inhibitors of transcription and translation and human platelets (which lack nuclei) maintained the capacity for hypoxia-induced glycolysis, suggesting the involvement of a non-transcriptional component to the hypoxia-induced metabolic switch to a highly glycolytic phenotype. Mass spectrometric analysis of the interactome of immunoprecipitated rate-limiting glycolytic enzymes identified hypoxia-sensitive complexes comprising multiple glycolytic enzymes and glucose transporters in intestinal epithelial cells. Surprisingly, the formation of glycolytic complexes, though not dependent upon transcription, occurs via a HIF-1?-dependent mechanism, suggesting that HIF-1? may play a moonlighting role in the formation / maintenance of glycolytic complexes. Furthermore, we provide evidence for the presence of HIF-1? in cytosolic fractions of hypoxic cells which physically associated with the glucose transporter GLUT1 and the glycolytic enzyme PFKP in a hypoxia-sensitive manner. In conclusion, we hypothesize that HIF-1? plays a role in initiation and/or maintenance of glycolytic complexes in intestinal epithelial cells under hypoxic conditions in a manner which optimizes catalytic efficiency of the pathway by facilitating substrate channeling of glycolytic intermediates between sequential pathway enzymes. In hypoxia, cells undergo a metabolic switch to increased glycolysis. This has important implications for cell behavior, phenotype, and fate in both healthy and cancerous cells. Here we describe a mechanism by which HIF-1, in addition to increasing glycolytic enzyme expression, promotes glycolysis via the formation of a metabolic complex.

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HIF1/2-exerted control over glycolysis but not OxPHOS pathways in human normal and leukemic stem/progenitor cells

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