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Hypoxia-Inducible Factors: Master Regulators of Cancer Progression

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Schito, Luana, Semenza, Gregg L.·2016·Trends in Cancer

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Intratumoral hypoxia (reduced O 2 availability) is a common finding in human cancer and leads to increased activity of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs), which regulate the expression of genes that contribute to angiogenesis, metabolic reprogramming, extracellular matrix remodeling, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, motility, invasion, metastasis, cancer stem cell maintenance, immune evasion, and resistance to chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Conventional anticancer therapies target well-oxygenated and proliferating cancer cells, whereas there are no approved therapies that target hypoxic cancer cells, despite growing clinical and experimental evidence indicating that intratumoral hypoxia is a critical microenvironmental factor driving cancer progression. In this review, our current understanding of the consequences of HIF activity and the translational potential of targeting HIFs for cancer therapy are discussed.

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  • Intratumoral hypoxia is a major driving force for cancer progression.

    “Intratumoral hypoxia is a major driving force for cancer progression (15–19).”
  • HIFs play critical roles in cancer progression by activating transcription of genes encoding proteins involved in angiogenesis, glucose metabolism, invasion/metastasis, stem cell specification, protumoral inflammatory responses, and tumor immune evasion.

    “Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) play critical roles in cancer progression by activating the transcription of a large battery of genes encoding proteins that play key roles in angiogenesis, glucose metabolism, invasion/metastasis, stem cell specification, protumoral inflammatory responses, and tumor immune evasion (18, 23–27).”

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Authors
Schito, L., & Semenza, G. L.
Affiliations
  • University Health Network (CA)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
Corresponding author
Semenza, Gregg L.
Venue
Trends in Cancer
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-12
Volume
2
Issue
12
Pages
758-770
ISSN
  • 2405-8025 (ISSN-L)
  • 2405-8033
OpenAlex
W2552872119
Cited by
962
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 49 · 2025: 79 · 2024: 99 · 2023: 94 · 2022: 160 · 2021: 172 · 2020: 146 · 2019: 82 · 2018: 68 · 2017: 12
FWCI
4.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Trends in cancer (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • American Cancer Society
  • Cindy Rosencrans Fund for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
  • Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Erythropoietin and Anemia Treatment
Keywords
hypoxia-inducible factor, intratumoral hypoxia, tumor microenvironment, tumor progression, angiogenesis, metabolic reprogramming, extracellular matrix remodeling, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, metastasis, cancer stem cells, immune evasion, chemoresistance, radiotherapy resistance
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Neoplasms, Neovascularization, Pathologic, Neoplastic Stem Cells, Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

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