Advances in hypoxia-inducible factor biology

H Choudhry, AL Harris - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), a central regulator for detecting and adapting to
cellular oxygen levels, transcriptionally activates genes modulating oxygen homeostasis …

Mechanisms of hypoxia signalling: new implications for nephrology

J Schödel, PJ Ratcliffe - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2019 - nature.com
Studies of the regulation of erythropoietin (EPO) production by the liver and kidneys, one of
the classical physiological responses to hypoxia, led to the discovery of human oxygen …

Inherent DNA‐binding specificities of the HIF‐1α and HIF‐2α transcription factors in chromatin

JA Smythies, M Sun, N Masson, R Salama… - EMBO …, 2019 - embopress.org
Hypoxia‐inducible factor (HIF) is the major transcriptional regulator of cellular responses to
hypoxia. The two principal HIF‐α isoforms, HIF‐1α and HIF‐2α, are progressively stabilized …

The role of hypoxia-inducible factors in cardiovascular diseases

B Yu, X Wang, Y Song, G **e, S Jiao, L Shi… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. During the development
of cardiovascular diseases, hypoxia plays a crucial role. Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are …

NF-κB and TET2 promote macrophage reprogramming in hypoxia that overrides the immunosuppressive effects of the tumor microenvironment

C de la Calle-Fabregat, J Calafell-Segura, M Gardet… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Macrophages orchestrate tissue homeostasis and immunity. In the tumor microenvironment
(TME), macrophage presence is largely associated with poor prognosis because of their …

The renal lineage factor PAX8 controls oncogenic signalling in kidney cancer

SA Patel, S Hirosue, P Rodrigues, E Vojtasova… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Large-scale human genetic data,–have shown that cancer mutations display strong tissue-
selectivity, but how this selectivity arises remains unclear. Here, using experimental models …

Allele-specific control of rodent and human lncRNA KMT2E-AS1 promotes hypoxic endothelial pathology in pulmonary hypertension

YY Tai, Q Yu, Y Tang, W Sun, NJ Kelly… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Hypoxic reprogramming of vasculature relies on genetic, epigenetic, and metabolic circuitry,
but the control points are unknown. In pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a disease …

Increased enhancer–promoter interactions during developmental enhancer activation in mammals

Z Chen, V Snetkova, G Bower, S Jacinto, B Clock… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Remote enhancers are thought to interact with their target promoters via physical proximity,
yet the importance of this proximity for enhancer function remains unclear. Here we …

VHL Deficiency Drives Enhancer Activation of Oncogenes in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

X Yao, J Tan, KJ Lim, J Koh, WF Ooi, Z Li, D Huang… - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
Protein-coding mutations in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) have been extensively
characterized, frequently involving inactivation of the von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) tumor …

Chromatin accessibility landscape and regulatory network of high-altitude hypoxia adaptation

J **n, H Zhang, Y He, Z Duren, C Bai, L Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
High-altitude adaptation of Tibetans represents a remarkable case of natural selection
during recent human evolution. Previous genome-wide scans found many non-coding …