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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 293, Issue 50, Pages 19303-19316Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.003376
Keywords
Heat shock factor protein 1 (HSF1); Nuclear factor 2 (erythroid-derived 2-like factor) (NFE2L2) (Nrf2); gene regulation; oxidative stress; breast cancer; antioxidant response element; transcription factor; transcriptional regulation; heat shock factor 1; NRF2; heat shock response; arsenic stress
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- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology
- Bose Institute plan program IV
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Functional up-regulation of heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) activity through different posttranslational modifications has been implicated in the survival and proliferation of various cancers. It is increasingly recognized that the HSF1 gene is also up-regulated at the transcriptional level, a phenomenon correlated with poor prognosis for patients with different cancers, including breast cancer. Here, we analyzed the transcriptional up-regulation of HSF1 in human cells upon arsenite- or peroxide-induced oxidative stress. Sequential promoter truncation coupled with bioinformatics analysis revealed that this activation is mediated by two antioxidant response elements (AREs) located between 1707 and 1530 bp upstream of the transcription start site of the HSF1 gene. Using shRNA-mediated down-regulation, ChIP of NRF2, site-directed mutagenesis of the AREs, and DNase I footprinting of the HSF1 promoter, we confirmed that nuclear factor erythroid-derived 2-like 2 (NRF2, also known as NFE2L2) interacts with these AREs and up-regulates HSF1 expression. We also found that BRM/SWI2-related gene 1 (BRG1), a catalytic subunit of SWI2/SNF2-like chromatin remodeler, is involved in this process. We further show that NRF2-dependent HSF1 gene regulation plays a crucial role in cancer cell biology, as interference with NRF2-mediated HSF1 activation compromised survival, migration potential, and the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and autophagy in MCF7 breast cancer cells exposed to oxidative stress. Taken together, our findings unravel the mechanistic basis of HSF1 gene regulation in cancer cells and provide molecular evidence supporting a direct interaction between HSF1 and NRF2, critical regulators of two cytoprotective mechanisms exploited by cancer cells.
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