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The critical role of glucose deprivation in epithelial-mesenchymal transition in hepatocellular carcinoma under hypoxia.
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- Metabolic stress-induced reciprocal loop of long noncoding RNA ZFAS1 and ZEB1 promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition and metastasis of pancreatic cancer cells.Cancer science · 2023Article
- Novel Gene Signatures Promote Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) in Glucose Deprivation-Based Microenvironment to Predict Recurrence-Free Survival in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Journal of oncology · 2023Article
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- Identification of hub genes regulating the cell activity and function of adipose-derived stem cells under oxygen-glucose deprivation.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Article
- Long non-coding RNAs play an important regulatory role in tumorigenesis and tumor progression through aerobic glycolysis.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Review
- Risk characteristics with seven epithelial-mesenchymal transition-related genes are used to predict the prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2021Article
- Possibility for Transcriptional Targeting of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts-Limitations and Opportunities.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Imaging with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is used to determine sites of abnormal glucose metabolism to predict high tumor grade, metastasis, and poor patient survival. However, not all tumors with increased 18F-FDG uptake show aggressive tumor biology, as evident from the moderate correlation between metastasis and high FDG uptake. We hypothesized that metastasis is likely attributable to the complexity and heterogeneity of the cancer microenvironment. To identify the cancer microenvironment that induces the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process, tumor areas of patients with HCC were analyzed by immunostaining. Our data demonstrated the induction of EMT process in HCC cells with low proliferation under hypoxic conditions. To validate our finding, among HCC cell lines, HepG2 cells with highly increased expression of HIF1α under hypoxia were employed in vitro and in vivo. Major changes in EMT-associated protein expression, such as the up-regulation of N-cadherin and snail/slug are associated with decreased proliferation-related protein (PCNA) caused by glucose deprivation under hypoxia. Indeed, PCNA knockdown-HepG2 cells under hypoxia showed the induction of more EMT process compare to the control. Thus, HCC cells with low proliferative potential under glucose-deprived and hypoxic conditions show high probability for induced EMT process and promote cell invasion. This study investigates reasons as to why an EMT process cannot fully be predicted. Our observations indicate that rather than analyzing a single factor, an integrated analysis of hypoxia with low glucose metabolism and low cell proliferation might be helpful to predict the potential impact on induction of EMT process and promotion of cell invasion.
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