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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 46, Issue 13, Pages 6576-6591Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky449
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- Welch Foundation [I-1903-20160319, I-1939-20170325, I-1805]
- National Institutes of Health [R00CA168746, R00NS078049, R35GM124693, CA103867]
- Susan G Komen [CCR16376227]
- CPRIT [RR140036, RP170671, RP140367, RP180349]
- Welch Foundation
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA103867, R00CA168746] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R35GM124693] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R00NS078049] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) is a master transcriptional regulator in response to hypoxia and its transcriptional activity is crucial for cancer cell mobility. Here we present evidence for a novel epigenetic mechanism that regulates HIF-1 transcriptional activity and HIF-1-dependent migration of glioblastoma cells. The lysine methyltransferases G9a and GLP directly bound to the alpha subunit of HIF-1 (HIF-1 alpha) and catalyzed mono- and di-methylation of HIF-1 alpha at lysine (K) 674 in vitro and in vivo. K674 methylation suppressed HIF-1 transcriptional activity and expression of its downstream target genes PTGS1, NDNF, SLC6A3, and Linc01132 in human glioblastoma U251MG cells. Inhibition of HIF-1 by K674 methylation is due to reduced HIF-1 alpha transactivation domain function but not increased HIF-1 alpha protein degradation or impaired binding of HIF-1 to hypoxia response elements. K674 methylation significantly decreased HIF-1-dependent migration of U251MG cells under hypoxia. Importantly, we found that G9a was downregulated by hypoxia in glioblastoma, which was inversely correlated with PTGS1 expression and survival of patients with glioblastoma. Therefore, our findings uncover a hypoxia-induced negative feedback mechanism that maintains high activity of HIF-1 and cell mobility in human glioblastoma.
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