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ArticleMolecular oncology2023

Hypoxia-mediated regulation of DDX5 through decreased chromatin accessibility and post-translational targeting restricts R-loop accumulation.

Katarzyna B Leszczynska, Monika Dzwigonska, Hala Estephan, Jutta Moehlenbrink, Elizabeth Bowler, Amato J Giaccia, Jakub Mieczkowski, Bozena Kaminska, Ester M Hammond

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Article in Molecular oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Katarzyna B LeszczynskaDepartment of Oncology, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, The University of Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3504-1553
Monika DzwigonskaLaboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Neurobiology Center, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1774-3671
Hala EstephanDepartment of Oncology, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, The University of Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7017-0038
Jutta MoehlenbrinkDepartment of Oncology, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, The University of Oxford, UK.
Elizabeth BowlerDepartment of Oncology, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, The University of Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0808-1653
Amato J GiacciaDepartment of Oncology, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, The University of Oxford, UK.
Jakub Mieczkowski3P-Medicine Laboratory, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-2091-012X
Bozena KaminskaLaboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Neurobiology Center, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-2642-4616
Ester M HammondDepartment of Oncology, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, The University of Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2335-3146
University of Oxford · GBInstytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. Marcelego Nenckiego · PLGdańsk Medical University · PL

Funding

Cancer Research UK C5255/A23755Medical Research Council MC_UU_00001/8
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Local hypoxia occurs in most solid tumors and is associated with aggressive disease and therapy resistance. Widespread changes in gene expression play a critical role in the biological response to hypoxia. However, most research has focused on hypoxia-inducible genes as opposed to those that are decreased in hypoxia. We demonstrate that chromatin accessibility is decreased in hypoxia, predominantly at gene promoters and specific pathways are impacted including DNA repair, splicing, and the R-loop interactome. One of the genes with decreased chromatin accessibility in hypoxia was DDX5, encoding the RNA helicase, DDX5, which showed reduced expression in various cancer cell lines in hypoxic conditions, tumor xenografts, and in patient samples with hypoxic tumors. Most interestingly, we found that when DDX5 is rescued in hypoxia, replication stress and R-loop levels accumulate further, demonstrating that hypoxia-mediated repression of DDX5 restricts R-loop accumulation. Together these data support the hypothesis that a critical part of the biological response to hypoxia is the repression of multiple R-loop processing factors; however, as shown for DDX5, their role is specific and distinct.

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ChromatinR-Loop StructuresCell LineHumansHypoxiaChromatinATACseqDDX5hypoxiaR-loops

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PMID37013907
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