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Formica V, Riondino S, Morelli C, Guerriero S, D'Amore F, Di Grazia A, Del Vecchio Blanco G, Sica G, Arkenau HT, Monteleone G, Roselli M. HIF2α, Hepcidin and their crosstalk as tumour-promoting signalling. Br J Cancer 2023; 129:222-236. [PMID: 37081189 PMCID: PMC10338631 DOI: 10.1038/s41416-023-02266-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Revised: 03/25/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Not all aspects of the disruption of iron homeostasis in cancer have been fully elucidated. Iron accumulation in cancer cells is frequent for many solid tumours, and this is often accompanied by the contemporary rise of two key iron regulators, HIF2α and Hepcidin. This scenario is different from what happens under physiological conditions, where Hepcidin parallels systemic iron concentrations while HIF2α levels are inversely associated to Hepcidin. The present review highlights the increasing body of evidence for the pro-tumoral effect of HIF2α and Hepcidin, discusses the possible imbalance in HIF2α, Hepcidin and iron homeostasis during cancer, and explores therapeutic options relying on these pathways as anticancer strategies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vincenzo Formica
- Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford, 81, 00133, Rome, Italy.
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- Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford, 81, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford, 81, 00133, Rome, Italy
- PhD Program in Systems and Experimental Medicine (XXXV cycle), University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford, 81, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford, 81, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford, 81, 00133, Rome, Italy
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Li G, Yang J, Zhao G, Shen Z, Yang K, Tian L, Zhou Q, Chen Y, Huang Y. Dysregulation of ferroptosis may involve in the development of non-small-cell lung cancer in Xuanwei area. J Cell Mol Med 2021; 25:2872-2884. [PMID: 33528895 PMCID: PMC7957160 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.16318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The Xuanwei area of Yunnan Province, China, is one of the regions suffering from the highest occurrence and mortality rate of lung cancer in the world. Local residents tend to use bituminous coal as domestic fuel, which causes serious indoor air pollution and is established as the main carcinogen. After the local government carried out furnace and stove reform work, lung cancer rate including incidence and mortality among residents remains high. We herein wonder if there are specific mechanisms at protein level for the development of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in this area. We investigated the changes of protein profiling in tumour of the patients from Xuanwei area. Tandem mass tag (TMT) was employed to screen the differential proteins between carcinoma and para-carcinoma tissues. We identified a total of 422 differentially expressed proteins, among which 162 proteins were significantly up-regulated and 260 were downregulated compared to para-carcinoma tissues. Many of the differentially expressed proteins were related to extracellular matrix (ECM)-receptor interaction, focal adhesion, PI3K/AKT pathway and ferroptosis. Further experiments on the two differential proteins, thioredoxin 2 (TXN2) and haptoglobin (HP), showed that the change of their expressions could make the lung cancer cell lines more resistant to erastin or RSL-induced ferroptosis in vitro, and promote the growth of tumour in nude mice. In conclusion, this study revealed that aberrant regulation of ferroptosis may involve in the development of lung cancer in Xuanwei area.
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- Guangjian Li
- Department of Thoracic Surgery I, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University & Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Kunming, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery I, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University & Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Kunming, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery I, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University & Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Kunming, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery I, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University & Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Kunming, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery I, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University & Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Kunming, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Hong Kong University, Shenzhen, China
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- Lung Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery I, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University & Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Kunming, China
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery I, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University & Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Kunming, China
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Wei J, Gao X, Qin Y, Liu T, Kang Y. An Iron Metabolism-Related SLC22A17 for the Prognostic Value of Gastric Cancer. Onco Targets Ther 2020; 13:12763-12775. [PMID: 33363382 PMCID: PMC7751842 DOI: 10.2147/ott.s287811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Purpose Gastric cancer (GC) is a type of malignant cancer with a poor prognosis. The iron’s metabolism plays an important role in the process of GC. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of SLC22A17, associated with iron metabolism, in predicting the prognosis of GC patients. Materials and Methods We analyzed genes related to iron metabolism of gastric cancer mRNA-seq data from TCGA database. We identified an iron metabolism-related SLC22A17 as an independent prognostic factor using univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis. Results Further research showed that SLC22A17 was related with many pathways involved in the process of gastric cancer, and the expression was associated with diverse cancer-infiltrating immune cells. The expression of SLC22A17 was associated with T (Topography). Conclusion We validated that SLC22A17 associated with iron metabolism could serve as a prognostic biomarker for GC patients.
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- Jianming Wei
- Department of General Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Dermatology, Tianjin Children's Hospital, Tianjin 300074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Bio-ID Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China
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- Department of General Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, People's Republic of China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Bio-ID Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China
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Cai Y, Liu R, Lu X, Zhang Q, Wang X, Lian H, Wang H. Correlation in gene expression between the aggravation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the occurrence of complications. Bioengineered 2020; 11:1245-1257. [PMID: 33108241 PMCID: PMC8291885 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2020.1839216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Aggravation of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often leads to a slew of complications, but the correlation between COPD aggravation and the complications on the basis of molecular level remains unclear. In this study, gene expression profiles of COPD in patients at early and aggravation stages were collected and differentially-expressed genes were selected. Meanwhile, gene expression data implicated in COPD complications were analyzed to establish a regulatory network of COPD aggravation and COPD related complications. In addition, the gene enrichment function of DAVID6.7 was utilized to evaluate the similarities between COPD aggravation and COPD complications in term of biological process. By analyzing the genes of COPD aggravation and the COPD complications, we found 18 genes highly related to COPD aggravation, among which haptoglobin (HP) was correlated with 14 complications, followed by ADRB2, LCK and CA1, which were related to 13, 11 and 11 complications, respectively. As far as the complications concerned, obesity was regulated by 17 of the 18 genes, which indicated that there was a close correlation between COPD aggravation and obesity. Meanwhile, lung cancer, diabetes and heart failure were regulated by 15, 15 and 14 genes, respectively, among the 18 selected genes. This study suggested the driver genes of COPD aggravation were capable of extensively regulating COPD complications, which would provide a theoretical basis for development of cures for COPD and its complications.
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- Yuchen Cai
- Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Hainan University , Haikou, Hainan Province, China
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- Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Hainan University , Haikou, Hainan Province, China
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- School of Life and Pharmaceutical Science , Haikou, Hainan Province, China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Anhui University of Science and Technology , Huainan, Anhui Province, China
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China , Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
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- School of Economics, Hainan University , Haikou, Hainan Province, China
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- Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Hainan University , Haikou, Hainan Province, China
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Hernik A, Szczepanek-Parulska E, Filipowicz D, Abdolall A, Borowczyk M, Wrotkowska E, Czarnywojtek A, Krasiński Z, Ruchała M. The hepcidin concentration decreases in hypothyroid patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis following restoration of euthyroidism. Sci Rep 2019; 9:16222. [PMID: 31700042 PMCID: PMC6838327 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52715-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to measure the hepcidin concentration and evaluate Fe homeostasis indices in a prospective study on patients with newly diagnosed hypothyroidism in the course of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) and following successful therapy. The prospective observational study consisted of 34 patients. The clinical evaluation and laboratory tests were performed at diagnosis (T0) and after restoration of euthyreosis 12 weeks later (T1). The median level of hepcidin was significantly lower (p = 0.002) after recovery (7.7 [6.2–13.0] ng/mL) than that before treatment (17.4 [7.6–20.4] ng/mL), while creatinine (p = 0.011) and GFR (p < 0.001) significantly improved after euthyroidism was achieved. A positive correlation was observed between hepcidin and fT3 (p = 0.033, r = 0.465) at T0. In the females, the level of hepcidin positively correlated with ferritin concentration before (p < 0.001, r = 0.928) and after treatment (p < 0.001, r = 0.835). A statistically significant difference was observed in RDW-CV (red blood cell distribution width - coefficient of variation) between the hypothyroid and euthyroid states. In conclusion, a decrease in hepcidin concentration during the transition from the hypothyroid state to euthyroidism in patients with HT is associated with the observed dynamics in iron homeostasis, mainly reflected by improvement in RDW-CV and significant correlations between ferritin and hepcidin as well as between hepcidin and fT3.
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- Aleksandra Hernik
- Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
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- Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Angiology and Phlebology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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