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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 433-444Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E07-02-0182
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- 21C Frontier Stem Cell Research Project [SC13040]
- Ministry of Science and Technology
- Korea Research Foundation, Republic of Korea [KRF-2002-015-CS0040]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2006-07596, 2002-015-CS0040, 2007-00077] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Interleukin-18 (IL-18) plays pivotal roles in linking inflammatory immune responses and tumor progression and metastasis, yet the manner in which this occurs remains to be sufficiently clarified. Here we report that hypoxia induces the transcription and secretion of IL-18, which subsequently induces the expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha(HIF-1 alpha). Mechanistically, IL-18 induces HIF-1 alpha through the activity of the GTPase Rac1, which inducibly associates with the IL-18 receptor beta (IL-18R beta) subunit, via a PI3K-AKT-NF-kappa B-dependent pathway. Importantly, the knockdown of the IL-18R beta subunit inhibited IL-18-driven tumor cell metastasis. Collectively, these findings demonstrate a feed-forward pathway in HIF-1 alpha-mediated tumor progression, in which the induction of IL-18 by hypoxia or inflammatory cells augments the expression of both HIF-1 alpha and tumor cell metastasis.
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