ArticleJournal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR2020
Hypoxia induced ferritin light chain (FTL) promoted epithelia mesenchymal transition and chemoresistance of glioma.
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- Hypoxia-induced PRMT6 expression promotes temozolomide chemoresistance in glioblastoma via G3BP1.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
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- Von Hippel-Lindau/Hypoxia Inducible Factor Axis in Glioblastoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Hypoxia and Multilineage Communication in 3D Organoids for Human Disease Modeling.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- HIF-1α and HIF-2α: synergistic regulation of glioblastoma malignant progression during hypoxia and apparent chemosensitization in response to hyperbaric oxygen.Cancer cell international · 2025Article
- Inhibition of NFE2L1 Enables the Tumor-Associated Macrophage Polarization and Enhances Anti-PD1 Immunotherapy in Glioma.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Article
- Overcoming temozolomide resistance in glioma: recent advances and mechanistic insights.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2025Review
- Transcriptome Landscape of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in Human PDAC.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundHypoxia, a fundamental characteristic of glioma, is considered to promote tumor malignancy by inducing process of epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT). Ferritin Light Chain (FTL) is one of the iron metabolism regulators and is overexpressed in glioma. However, relationship between hypoxia and FTL expression and its role in regulating EMT remains unclear.
methodsImmunohistochemistry (IHC), western blot and public datasets were used to evaluate FTL level in glioma. Wound healing, transwell assays, CCK8, annexin V staining assay were used to measure migration, invasion, proliferation and apoptosis of glioma cells in vitro. Interaction between HIF1A and FTL was assessed by luciferase reporter and Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays. Subcutaneous xenograft model was established to investigate in vivo growth.
resultsFTL expression was enriched in high grade glioma (HGG) and its expression significantly associated with IDH1/2 wildtype and unfavorable prognosis of glioma patients. FTL expression positively correlated with HIF1A in glioma tissues and obviously increased in U87 and U251 cells under hypoxia in a time-dependent manner. Mechanistically, HIF-1α regulates FTL expression by directly binding to HRE-3 in FTL promoter region. Furthermore, we found that knockdown FTL dramatically repressed EMT and reduced migration and invasion of glioma by regulating AKT/GSK3β/ β-catenin signaling both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, our study found downregulation FTL decreased the survival rate and increased the apoptosis of glioma cells treated with temozolomide (TMZ). FTL expression segregated glioma patients who were treated with TMZ or with high MGMT promoter methylation into survival groups in TCGA dataset. Patients with methylated MGMT who had high FTL expression presented similar prognosis with patients with unmethylated MGMT.
conclusionOur study strongly suggested that hypoxia-inducible FTL was a regulator of EMT and acted not only as a prognostic marker but also a novel biomarker of response to TMZ in glioma.
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