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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 1699-1706Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2014.2336
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glucosamine-hydrochloride; hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha; 2-oxoglutarate; citrate; YD-8 cells
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Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is a tumor angiogenic transcription factor composed of an alpha and beta subunit. We investigated the effect of glucosamine hydrochloride (GS-HCl) on the expression of HIF-1 alpha and HIF-1 beta in serum-treated YD-8 human tongue cancer cells. While long-term (24 h) treatment with GS-HCl strongly repressed the expression of HIF-1 alpha and HIF-1 beta at both the protein and mRNA levels, short-term (4 h) GS-HCl treatment inhibited HIF-1 alpha at the protein level. Short-term GS-HCl treatment also decreased phosphorylation of p70S6K and S6, translation-related proteins. However, the results of subsequent pharmacological inhibition and protein stability analyses indicated that HIF-1 alpha protein downregulation induced by short-term GS-HCl treatment was not through modulation of the mTOR/p70S6K/S6 signaling pathways, the 26S proteasomal and lysosomal activities and HIF-1 alpha protein stability. Importantly, our further analyses identified that HIF-1 alpha protein downregulation induced by short-term GS-HCl treatment was blunted by exogenous administration of the citric acid cycle metabolites citrate and 2-oxoglutarate, but not the glycolytic end byproducts pyruvate and lactate. These findings demonstrate firstly that short-term GS treatment selectively downregulates HIF-1 alpha at the protein level in YD-8 cells via interference of production of the citric acid cycle metabolites. It is proposed that short-term GS-HCl exposure may be applied for the treatment of oral tumors with high expression of HIF-1 alpha.
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