ArticlePloS one2014
MIF family members cooperatively inhibit p53 expression and activity.
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- Multi-omics integration reveals that pyrimidine metabolism in lung adenocarcinoma drives an immunosuppressive microenvironment.iScience · 2026Article
- Oxidized MIF is an Alzheimer's disease drug target relaying external risk factors to tau pathology.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Apoptosis-Resistant Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells During a Sterile Inflammatory Response.Biomolecules · 2025Article
- Targeting macrophage migration inhibitory factor as a potential therapeutic strategy in colorectal cancer.Oncogenesis · 2025Article
- Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) and the tumor ecosystem: a tale of inflammation, immune escape, and tumor growth.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) and D-Dopachrome Tautomerase (DDT): Pathways to Tumorigenesis and Therapeutic Opportunities.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- The roles of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in retinal diseases.Neural regeneration research · 2024Review
- MIF-like domain containing protein orchestrates cellular differentiation and virulence in the fungal pathogeniScience · 2023Article
- Long Non-coding RNA ZFPM2-AS1: A Novel Biomarker in the Pathogenesis of Human Cancers.Molecular biotechnology · 2022Review
- Macrophage migration inhibitory factor family proteins are multitasking cytokines in tissue injury.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022Review
- Chronic inflammation, cancer development and immunotherapy.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- Intratumor Heterogeneity of MIF Expression Correlates With Extramedullary Involvement of Multiple Myeloma.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Article
- A selective small-molecule inhibitor of macrophage migration inhibitory factor-2 (MIF-2), a MIF cytokine superfamily member, inhibits MIF-2 biological activity.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2019Article
- Overexpression of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor and Its Homologue D-Dopachrome Tautomerase as Negative Prognostic Factor in Neuroblastoma.Brain sciences · 2019Article
- MIF family proteins in genitourinary cancer: tumorigenic roles and therapeutic potential.Nature reviews. Urology · 2019Review
- Autophagic flux is essential for the downregulation of D-dopachrome tautomerase by atractylenolide I to ameliorate intestinal adenoma formation.Journal of cell communication and signaling · 2018Article
- ZFPM2-AS1, a novel lncRNA, attenuates the p53 pathway and promotes gastric carcinogenesis by stabilizing MIF.Oncogene · 2018Article
- Plasma Levels of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor and d-Dopachrome Tautomerase Show a Highly Specific Profile in Early Life.Frontiers in immunology · 2017Article
- Modeling of both shared and distinct interactions between MIF and its homologue D-DT with their common receptor CD74.Cytokine · 2016Article
- Deletion of macrophage migration inhibitory factor inhibits murine oral carcinogenesis: Potential role for chronic pro-inflammatory immune mediators.International journal of cancer · 2016Article
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Abstract
The tumor suppressor p53 is induced by genotoxic stress in both normal and transformed cells and serves to transcriptionally coordinate cell cycle checkpoint control and programmed cell death responses. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is an autocrine and paracrine acting cytokine/growth factor that promotes lung adenocarcinoma cell motility, anchorage-independence and neo-angiogenic potential. Several recent studies indicate that the only known homolog of MIF, D-dopachrome tautomerase (D-DT - also referred to as MIF-2), has functionally redundant activities with MIF and cooperatively promotes MIF-dependent pro-tumorigenic phenotypes. We now report that MIF and D-DT synergistically inhibit steady state p53 phosphorylation, stabilization and transcriptional activity in human lung adenocarcinoma cell lines. The combined loss of MIF and D-DT by siRNA leads to dramatically reduced cell cycle progression, anchorage independence, focus formation and increased programmed cell death when compared to individual loss of MIF or D-DT. Importantly, p53 mutant and p53 null lung adenocarcinoma cell lines were only nominally rescued from the cell growth effects of MIF/D-DT combined deficiency suggesting only a minor role for p53 in these transformed cell growth phenotypes. Finally, increased p53 activation was found to be independent of aberrantly activated AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) that occurs in response to MIF/D-DT-deficiency but is dependent on reactive oxygen species (ROS) that mediate aberrant AMPK activation in these cells. Combined, these findings suggest that both p53 wildtype and mutant human lung adenocarcinoma tumors rely on MIF family members for maximal cell growth and survival.
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