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JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 146, Issue 6, Pages 757-765Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvp167
Keywords
HIF; PHD; prolyl-hydroxylation; Siah2; ubiquitination
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- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Takeda Science Foundation
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Cells induce the hypoxia responses to adapt to the environment when organisms are exposed to a low oxygen environment. The hypoxia response leads to the activation of multiple cellular signalling pathways involved in regulation of respiration, metabolism, cell survival and so forth. Hypoxia-Inducible-Factor (HIF) pathway plays a central role during the hypoxia response as its expression and activity are regulated in an oxygen-dependent manner and it also regulates the expression of multiple hypoxia responsive genes. The expression of HIF is regulated by proline hydroxylation, which is mediated by HIF prolyl-hydroxylase named PHD. The hydroxylated HIF-alpha subunit is degraded via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. The PHD activity needs to be strictly regulated to ensure the stabilization of HIF under hypoxic conditions, because PHD leads to HIF degradation. This review describes the regulatory mechanism of HIF stability and activity under normoxia and hypoxic conditions. Furthermore, the role of the HIF-independent pathways during the hypoxia response, which is as important as the HIF pathway, will also be described.
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