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LY6E: a conductor of malignant tumor growth through modulation of the PTEN/PI3K/Akt/HIF-1 axis

Chan Joo Yeom, Lihua Zeng, Yoko Goto, Akiyo Morinibu, Yuxi Zhu, Kazumi Shinomiya, Minoru Kobayashi, Satoshi Itasaka, Michio Yoshimura, Cheol-Goo Hur, Hideaki Kakeya, Ester M. Hammond, Masahiro Hiraoka and Hiroshi Harada _

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Oncotarget. 2016; 7:65837-65848. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.11670

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Abstract

Chan Joo Yeom1,2, Lihua Zeng1,2,3, Yoko Goto1,2, Akiyo Morinibu1,2, Yuxi Zhu1,2,4, Kazumi Shinomiya1,2, Minoru Kobayashi1,2, Satoshi Itasaka1, Michio Yoshimura1, Cheol-Goo Hur5, Hideaki Kakeya6, Ester M. Hammond7, Masahiro Hiraoka1, Hiroshi Harada1,2,8,9,10

1Department of Radiation Oncology and Image-Applied Therapy, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan

2Group of Radiation and Tumor Biology, Career-Path Promotion Unit for Young Life Scientists, Kyoto University, Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

3Department of Radiation Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, China

4Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Yuanjiagang, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400016, China

5Cancer Genomics Branch, Division of Convergence Technology, National Cancer Center, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 410-769, Korea

6Division of Bioinformatics and Chemical Genomics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

7CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom

8Hakubi Center, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

9Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan

10Laboratory of Cancer Cell Biology, Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

Correspondence to:

Hiroshi Harada, email: [email protected], [email protected]

Keywords: tumor hypoxia, hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1), lymphocyte antigen 6 complex, locus E (LY6E), PTEN/PI3K/Akt/HIF-1 axis

Received: August 31, 2015    Accepted: August 21, 2016    Published: August 29, 2016

ABSTRACT

Lymphocyte antigen 6 complex, locus E (LY6E) has been implicated in the malignant progression of various types of cancers; however, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we identified LY6E as an activator of HIF-1 and revealed their mechanistic and functional links in malignant tumor growth. The aberrant overexpression of LY6E increased HIF-1α gene expression principally at the transcription level. This, in turn, led to the expression of the pro-angiogenic factors, VEGFA and PDGFB, through decreases in the expression levels of PTEN mRNA and subsequent activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway. The LY6E-HIF-1 axis functioned to increase tumor blood vessel density and promoted tumor growth in immunodeficient mice. LY6E expression levels were significantly higher in human breast cancers than in normal breast tissues, and were strongly associated with the poor prognoses of various cancer patients. Our results characterized LY6E as a novel conductor of tumor growth through its modulation of the PTEN/PI3K/Akt/HIF-1 axis and demonstrated the validity of targeting this pathway for cancer therapy.


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