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Hypoxia inducible factor-1 mediates the expression of the immune checkpoint HLA-G in glioma cells through hypoxia response element located in exon 2

2016; Impact Journals LLC; Volume: 7; Issue: 39 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18632/oncotarget.11628

ISSN

1949-2553

Autores

Layale Yaghi, Isabelle Poras, Renata Toscano Simões, Eduardo Antônio Donadi, Jörg Tost, Antoine Daunay, Bibiana Sgorla de Almeida, Edgardo D. Carosella, Philippe Moreau,

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Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments

Resumo

// Layale Yaghi 1, 2, 3 , Isabelle Poras 1, 2 , Renata T. Simoes 1, 2, 4 , Eduardo A. Donadi 5 , Jörg Tost 6, 7 , Antoine Daunay 6 , Bibiana Sgorla de Almeida 1, 2, 5 , Edgardo D. Carosella 1, 2 , Philippe Moreau 1, 2 1 Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut des Maladies Emergentes et des Thérapies Innovantes, Service de Recherches en Hémato-Immunologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France 2 Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, UMR E5, Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France 3 Lebanese University, School of Medicine, Hadath, Lebanon 4 Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa da Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte, IEP/SCBH, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil 5 Divisão de Imunologia Clínica, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil 6 Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain, Fondation Jean-Dausset, Laboratory for Functional Genomics, Paris, France 7 Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Centre National de Genotypage, Laboratory for Epigenetics and Environment, Evry, France Correspondence to: Philippe Moreau, email: philippe.moreau@cea.fr Keywords: HLA-G, HIF-1, exon 2 HRE, glioma Received: July 02, 2016 Accepted: August 20, 2016 Published: August 26, 2016 ABSTRACT HLA-G is an immune checkpoint molecule with specific relevance in cancer immunotherapy. It was first identified in cytotrophoblasts, protecting the fetus from maternal rejection. HLA-G tissue expression is very restricted but induced in numerous malignant tumors such as glioblastoma, contributing to their immune escape. Hypoxia occurs during placenta and tumor development and was shown to activate HLA-G . We aimed to elucidate the mechanisms of HLA-G activation under conditions combining hypoxia-mimicking treatment and 5-aza-2'deoxycytidine, a DNA demethylating agent used in anti-cancer therapy which also induces HLA-G . Both treatments enhanced the amount of HLA-G mRNA and protein in HLA-G negative U251MG glioma cells. Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assays and luciferase reporter gene assays revealed that HLA-G upregulation depends on Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 (HIF-1) and a hypoxia responsive element (HRE) located in exon 2. A polymorphic HRE at –966 bp in the 5'UT region may modulate the magnitude of the response mediated by the exon 2 HRE. We suggest that therapeutic strategies should take into account that HLA-G expression in response to hypoxic tumor environment is dependent on HLA-G gene polymorphism and DNA methylation state at the HLA-G locus.

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