The “Sharp” blade against HIF-mediated metastasis

I Amelio, G Melino - Cell Cycle, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) control cellular adaptation to oxygen deprivation. Cancer
cells engage HIFs to sustain their growth in adverse conditions, thus promoting a cellular …

Non-canonical mechanisms regulating hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha in cancer

L Iommarini, AM Porcelli, G Gasparre… - Frontiers in oncology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1α) orchestrates cellular adaptation to low oxygen and
nutrient-deprived environment and drives progression to malignancy in human solid …

The von Hippel–Lindau tumor suppressor, hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) degradation, and cancer pathogenesis

CW Pugh, PJ Ratcliffe - Seminars in cancer biology, 2003 - Elsevier
Recently, work on the mechanism of action of the von Hippel–Lindau tumour suppressor
protein (pVHL) and studies on hypoxic gene regulation have converged, providing insights …

Role of prolyl hydroxylation in oncogenically stabilized hypoxia-inducible factor-1α

DA Chan, PD Sutphin, NC Denko, AJ Giaccia - Journal of biological …, 2002 - ASBMB
Stabilization of the hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) protein is essential for its role as a
regulator of gene expression under low oxygen conditions. Here, employing a novel …

Oxygen‐independent degradation of HIF‐α via bioengineered VHL tumour suppressor complex

RI Sufan, EH Moriyama, A Mariampillai… - EMBO molecular …, 2009 - embopress.org
Tumour hypoxia promotes the accumulation of the otherwise oxygen‐labile hypoxia‐
inducible factor (HIF)‐α subunit whose expression is associated with cancer progression …

Alternative regulation of HIF-1α stability through Phosphorylation on Ser451

H Han, S Saeidi, SJ Kim, JY Piao, S Lim… - Biochemical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF-1α) functions as a master regulator of oxygen
homeostasis. Oxygen-dependent hydroxylation of HIF-1α is tightly regulated by prolyl …

HIF-1α hydroxyprolines modulate oxygen-dependent protein stability via single VHL interface with comparable effect on ubiquitination rate

W He, S Batty-Stuart, JE Lee, M Ohh - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The basic molecular mechanism underlying mammalian oxygen-dependent regulation of
hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) via the von Hippel-Lindau E3 ubiquitin ligase is well …

[HTML][HTML] Independent function of two destruction domains in hypoxia‐inducible factor‐α chains activated by prolyl hydroxylation

N Masson, C Willam, PH Maxwell, CW Pugh… - The EMBO …, 2001 - embopress.org
Oxygen‐dependent proteolytic destruction of hypoxia‐inducible factor‐α (HIF‐α) subunits
plays a central role in regulating transcriptional responses to hypoxia. Recent studies have …

OTUB1 augments hypoxia signaling via its non-canonical ubiquitination inhibition of HIF-1α during hypoxia adaptation

X Liu, H Deng, J Tang, Z Wang, C Zhu, X Cai… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
As a main regulator of cellular responses to hypoxia, the protein stability of hypoxia-
inducible factor (HIF)-1α is strictly controlled by oxygen tension dependent of PHDs …

[HTML][HTML] HIF prolyl‐hydroxylase 2 is the key oxygen sensor setting low steady‐state levels of HIF‐1α in normoxia

E Berra, E Benizri, A Ginouvès, V Volmat, D Roux… - The EMBO …, 2003 - embopress.org
Hypoxia‐inducible factor (HIF), a transcriptional complex conserved from Caenorhabditis
elegans to vertebrates, plays a pivotal role in cellular adaptation to low oxygen availability …