Breast cancers contain regions of intratumoral hypoxia in which reduced O(2) availability activates the hypoxia-inducible factors HIF-1 and HIF-2, which increase the transcription of genes encoding proteins that are required for many important steps in cancer progression.
HIF-1alpha has emerged as an important transcription factor in breast cancer and prostate cancer biology, and is expressed in the early stages of mammary and prostate carcinogenesis.
HIF-1alpha overexpression was significantly more frequent in BRCA1 related breast cancers (27/30, 90%) than in sporadic controls (88/200, 44%) (P < 0.0001).
HIF-1α protein and hypoxia response element (HRE)-dependent reporter activity were strongly induced in RPMI 1640 but not in DMEM in several cultured cells including MCF-7, a human breast cancer cell line.
HIF-1-dependent ECM remodeling by hypoxic fibroblasts induces changes in breast cancer cell morphology, adhesion, and motility that promote invasion and metastasis.
HIF-1α and VEGFA are the target genes of miR20b and miR20b downregulation activated HIF-1α-mediated VEGFA transcription and ASC-induced BC migration and invasion.
HIF1α was silenced by siRNA in normoxic/hypoxic tumor cells, before RNA sequencing and bioinformatics analyses were performed while using the breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231 as a model.
Altogether, the results provide novel and compelling experimental evidence that (i) prolonged exposure to T2DM promotes BCa progression; (ii) the hyperinsulinemia/HIF-1α/oxidative stress cascade is the major mediator of this effect.
ANGPTL4 high serum levels and tissue expressions in advanced grade breast cancer, in addition to its positive correlation with tumor clinico-pathological features and HIF-1α could highlight its role as one of the signaling factors involved in breast cancer progression.
Carpesium abrotanoides (L.) Root as a Potential Source of Natural Anticancer Compounds: Targeting Glucose Metabolism and PKM2/HIF-1α Axis of Breast Cancer Cells.
Clinically, miR-373 is negatively associated with TXNIP and positively associated with HIF1α and TWIST, and activation of the miR-373-TXNIP-HIF1α-TWIST signaling axis is correlated with a worse outcome in patients with breast cancer.