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HAEMATOLOGICA-THE HEMATOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 93, Issue 10, Pages 1480-1487Publisher
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DOI: 10.3324/haematol.13096
Keywords
hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha; all-trans retinoid acid; differentiation; leukemia
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- the Ministry of Science and Technology [N02002CB512806]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30630034]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KSCX2-YW-R-097]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai [06QA14030]
- Shanghai Ling-Jun Talent Program
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Background The clinical activities of all-trans retinoic acid in the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia, a unique subtype of acute myeloid leukemia, have triggered extensive studies aimed at defining the mechanisms by which this compound induces differentiation of leukemic cells. Recent studies show that hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha. (HIF-1 alpha) contributes to the differentiation of acute myeloid leukemia cells via transcriptional activity-independent mechanisms. We investigated whether all-trans retinoic acid affects HIF-1 alpha protein and whether this has a role in all-trans retinoic acid-induced differentiation. Design and Methods The acute myeloid leukemia cell lines NB4 and U937 were treated with all-trans retinoic acid, and HIF-1 alpha/HIF-1 beta mRNA and proteins were measured respectively by real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and western blotting. To investigate the role of HIF-1 alpha. in all-trans retinoic acid-induced differentiation, N134 cells, U937 cells, U937 cells in which HIF-1 alpha. was induced by the withdrawal of tetracycline and U937 cells with stable expression of specific short hairpin RNA against HIF-1 alpha, Runx1, C/EBP alpha and PU.1, were treated with all-trans retinoic acid and/or the hypoxia-mimetic agent cobalt chloride (COCl(2)). Cellular differentiation was evaluated by morphological criteria and myeloid differentiation antigens. Results All-trans retinoic acid rapidly increased endogenous and inducible expressed or CoCl(2)-stabilized HIF-1 alpha. protein in leukemic cells under normoxia. Importantly, suppression of HIF-1a expression by specific short hairpin RNA partially but significantly inhibited all-trans retinoic acid-induced differentiation of the U937 cell line. Reciprocally, the differentiation induced by all-trans retinoic acid was significantly enhanced by conditional HIF-1a induction and HIF-1 alpha-stabilizing CoCl(2) treatment. Furthermore, knock-down of PU.1, Runx1 and C/EBP alpha, three transcriptional factors crucial for normal hematopoiesis, greatly inhibited the differentiation cooperation of all-trans retinoic acid and HIF-1 alpha induction. Conclusions This work provides the first demonstration that HIF-1a, a protein rapidly responsive to all-trans retinoic acid, plays a role in all-trans retinoic acid-induced differentiation of leukemic cells. These observations shed new light on the molecular mechanisms underlying all-trans retinoic acid-induced differentiation of acute myeloid leukemia cells.
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