Journal
ONCOTARGET
Volume 8, Issue 15, Pages 24840-24852Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.15266
Keywords
HIF-1; HIF-2; hypoxia; LDHA; pancreatic cancer
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81201556, 81572746, 811330059, 81372874]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [43302]
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Glycolysis is a typical conduit for energy metabolism in pancreatic cancer (PC) due to the hypoxic microenviroment. Lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) catalyzes the conversion of pyruvate to lactate and is considered to be a key checkpoint of anaerobic glycolysis. The aim of the present study was to explore the mechanism of interactions between hypoxia, HIF-1/2 alpha and LDHA, and the function of LDHA on PC cells by analyzing 244 PC and paratumor specimens. It was found that LDHA was over-expressed and related to tumor stages. The result of in vitro study demonstrated that hypoxia induced LDHA expression. To explore the relationship between HIF and LDHA, chromatin immunoprecipitation assay and luciferase assay were performed. The result showed that HIF-1/2 alpha bound to LDHA at 89bp under the hypoxic condition. Furthermore, knockdown of endogenous HIF-1 alpha and HIF-2 alpha decreased the LDHA expression even in the hypoxic condition, which was accompanied with a significant decrease in lactate production and glucose utilization (p < 0.01). Immunofluorescence in the 244 specimens showed that HIF-1/2 alpha was over-expressed and associated with LDHA over-expression (p < 0.0001). Forced expression of LDHA promoted the growth and migration of PC cells, while knocking down the expression of LDHA inhibited the cell growth and migration markedly. In summary, the present study proved that HIF1/2 alpha could activate LDHA expression in human PC cells, and high expression of LDHA promoted the growth and migration of PC cells.
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