Microenvironmental stress drives tumor cell maladaptation and malignancy through regulation of mitochondrial and nuclear cytochrome c oxidase subunits
After decades of focus on molecular genetics in cancer research, the role of metabolic and environmental factors is being reassessed. Here, we investigated the role of microenvironment in the promotion of malignant behavior in tumor cells with a different reliance on oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) versus lactic acid fermentation/Warburg effect. To this end, we evaluated the effects of microenvironmental challenges (hypoxia, acidity, and high glucose) on the expression of mitochondrial-encoded cytochrome c oxidase 1 (COX I) and two nuclear-encoded isoforms 4 (COX IV-1 and COX IV-2). We have shown that tumor cells with an "OXPHOS phenotype" respond to hypoxia by upregulating COX IV-1, whereas cells that rely on lactic acid fermentation maximized COX IV-2 expression. Acidity upregulates COX IV-2 regardless of the metabolic state of the cell, whereas high glucose stimulates the expression of COX I and COX IV-1, with a stronger effect in fermenting cells. Our results uncover that "energy phenotype" of tumor cells drives their adaptive response to microenvironment stress.NEW & NOTEWORTHY How microenvironmental stress (hypoxia, acidity, and high glucose) supports tumor growth has not yet been fully elucidated. Here, we demonstrated that these stressors promote malignancy by controlling the expression of cytochrome c oxidase I (COX I), and COX IV-1 and COX IV-2 based on the "energy phenotype" of cancer cells (OXPHOS vs. fermentation). Our results uncover a novel process by which the "energy phenotype" of cancer cells drives the adaptive response to microenvironment stress.
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2023 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:325 |
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American journal of physiology. Cell physiology - 325(2023), 6 vom: 01. Dez., Seite C1431-C1438 |
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Englisch |
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Gnocchi, Davide [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 28.11.2023 Date Revised 14.12.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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