Project description:Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), an αβ dimer, is the master regulator of oxygen homeostasis. HIF induces the expression of several hundred genes under hypoxic conditions. Three HIF isoforms differing in the oxygen-sensitive α subunit exist in vertebrates. While HIF-1 and HIF-2 are known transcription activators, HIF-3 has been considered as a negative regulator of the hypoxia response pathway by formation of inactive dimers between the HIF-3α and HIF-1α or HIF-2α subunit. However, the human HIF3A mRNA is subject to complex alternative splicing, which leads to production of both long and short HIF-3α variants. It has been shown recently that the long HIF-3α variants can form αβ dimers that possess transcriptional activation capacity, while the short splice variant inhibits hypoxia-inducible gene expression. Chromatin immunoprecipitation analyses of HIF-3α2 overexpression in Hep3B cells show that HIF-3α2 binding associates with canonical hypoxia response elements (5'-RCGTG-3') in the promoter regions of the erythropoietin (EPO) gene among others. Luciferase reporter assays show that the identified HIF-3α2 chromatin-binding regions are sufficient to promote transcription by HIF-3α2 and HIF-1. Furthermore, HIF-3α2 overexpression and knock-down studies by siRNA targeting the HIF3A gene show that EPO mRNA and protein levels are upregulated and downregulated, respectively. Taken together, the results show that HIF-3α2 is a transcription activator that is directly involved in erythropoietin signaling.
Project description:The human HIF3A gene undergoes extensive alternative splicing resulting in seven known isoforms. The short splice variant, HIF-3alpha4, is an inhibitor of the hypoxia response driven by HIF-1 and HIF-2. The role of the long isoforms remains unclear. We used cDNA microarray to study the overall impact of HIF-3a2 overexpression in Hep3B cells under 1 % hypoxia.
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: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 1α (HIF1α) and 2α (HIF2α) 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.
Project description:To study the gene expression profile in the mesendoderm differerntiation of control and Hif-1a overexpression, we performed RNA-seq on the total RNA samples collected from the differentiation of control and Hif-1a overexpression AB2.2 mESCs at differentiation day 4.In addition, to study the gene expression profile in the mesendoderm differerntiation of Hif-1a knockdown under normoxia and hypoxia, we performed RNA-seq on the total RNA samples collected from the differentiation of Hif-1a knockdown AB2.2 mESCs under normoxia or hypoxia at differentiation day 4. Cell lines were built by infecting AB2.2 cells with lentiviruses. Each group contained three biological replicates. The expression matrix was obtained by Hisat2 followed by Stringtie.
Project description:The human HIF3A gene undergoes extensive alternative splicing resulting in seven known isoforms. The short splice variant, HIF-3alpha4, is an inhibitor of the hypoxia response driven by HIF-1 and HIF-2. The role of the long isoforms remains unclear. We used cDNA microarray to study the overall impact of HIF3A knock-down by transfecting Hep3B cells with siRNA targeting a region shared by all splice variants under 1 % hypoxia.
Project description:Intestinal epithelia exist in a uniquely dynamic oxygen tension microenvironment. Adaptive responses to hypoxia in mammalian cells are regulated largely by hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) transcriptional complexes. Functional HIF exists as an obligate alpha/beta heterodimer, comprising both a constitutive subunit (HIF-1beta), and an oxygen-labile regulatory (alpha) component. To date, three regulatory subunits have been identified, namely HIF-1alpha, HIF-2alpha, and HIF-3alpha, with the highest level of sequence homology conserved between HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha. Despite their concurrent expression in intestinal epithelial cells, HIF-1 and HIF-2 play non-redundant roles in the regulation of an overlapping but distinct set of gene targets. In this study, we performed ChIP-on-chip analysis of chromatin isolated from hypoxic intestinal epithelia to delineate HIF-1 and HIF-2 specific loci. Comparison of HIF-1alpha ChIP-chip and HIF-2alpha ChIP-chip to map HIF-1- and HIF-2-specific gene targets across the genome.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of primary mouse articular chondrocyte infected with recombinant adenovirus expressing the hypoxia inducible factor-2 alpha (HIF-2α) protein. In this study, we have attempted to explore the effects of HIF-2α overexpression on mouse transcriptome and have identified numerous genes which are involved in osteoarthritis pathogenesis.
Project description:HIF-1A and HIF-2A regulate both overlapping and unique target genes in response to hypoxia. In this dataset, we identify specific HIF-1A and HIF-2A target genes in glioblastoma cells. 12 samples were analysed comprising 4 experimental conditions (normoxia scr, hypoxia scr, hypoxia siHIF1, hypoxia siHIF2) in triplicate. We made pairwise comparisons between the averages of each triplicate set to normoxia scr using the Partek suite.