Multiple tumor suppressors regulate a HIF-dependent negative feedback loop via ISGF3 in human clear cell renal cancer
- Thomas Jefferson University, United States
- Yale University, United States
- Mayo Clinic, United States
- The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, United States
- Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, United States
- Vanderbilt University, United States
Abstract
Whereas VHL inactivation is a primary event in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the precise mechanism(s) of how this interacts with the secondary mutations in tumor suppressor genes, including PBRM1, KDM5C/JARID1C, SETD2, and/orBAP1, remains unclear. Gene expression analyses reveal that VHL, PBRM1, or KDM5C share a common regulation of interferon response expression signature. Loss of HIF2a, PBRM1, or KDM5C in VHL-/-cells reduces the expression of interferon stimulated gene factor 3 (ISGF3), a transcription factor that regulates the interferon signature. Moreover, loss of SETD2 or BAP1 also reduces the ISGF3 level. Finally, ISGF3 is strongly tumor-suppressive in a xenograft model as its loss significantly enhances tumor growth. Conversely, reactivation of ISGF3 retards tumor growth by PBRM1-deficient ccRCC cells. Thus after VHL inactivation, HIF induces ISGF3, which is reversed by the loss of secondary tumor suppressors, suggesting that this is a key negative feedback loop in ccRCC.
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Microarray data have been deposited inn GEO under the accession code GSE108229.
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Microarray analysis of gene expression after suppression of PBRM1 or KDM5C in 786-O VHL+/+ or VHL-/- cellsPublicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE108229).
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Funding
National Cancer Institute (R01 CA155015)
- Haifeng Yang
National Cancer Institute (P30CA056036)
- Haifeng Yang
Department of Defence (W81XWH-16-1-0326)
- Qin Yan
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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- Irwin Davidson, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All animal experiments were conducted in accordance with protocol 01462-935A approved by the IACUC of Thomas Jefferson University and protocol 2015-11286 approved by the IACUC of Yale University.
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- Received: April 27, 2018
- Accepted: October 22, 2018
- Accepted Manuscript published: October 25, 2018 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: November 13, 2018 (version 2)
- Version of Record updated: April 21, 2021 (version 3)
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© 2018, Liao et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Multiple tumor suppressors regulate a HIF-dependent negative feedback loop via ISGF3 in human clear cell renal cancer
eLife 7:e37925.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37925
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