Chronic hypoxia stabilizes 3βHSD1 via autophagy suppression

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Progression of prostate cancer depends on androgen receptor, which is usually activated by androgens. Therefore, a mainstay treatment is androgen deprivation therapy. Unfortunately, despite initial treatment response, resistance nearly always develops, and disease progresses to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), which remains driven by non-gonadal androgens synthesized in prostate cancer tissues. 3β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/Δ5-->4 isomerase 1 (3βHSD1) catalyzes the rate-limiting step in androgen synthesis. However, how 3βHSD1, especially the "adrenal-permissive" 3βHSD1(367T) that permits tumor synthesis of androgen from dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), is regulated at the protein level is not well understood. Here, we investigate how hypoxia regulates 3βHSD1(367T) protein levels. Our results show that, in vitro, hypoxia stabilizes 3βHSD1 protein by suppressing autophagy. Autophagy inhibition promotes 3βHSD1-dependent tumor progression. Hypoxia represses transcription of autophagy-related (ATG) genes by decreasing histone acetylation. Inhibiting deacetylase (HDAC) restores ATG gene transcription under hypoxia. Therefore, HDAC inhibition may be a therapeutic target for hypoxic tumor cells.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

Cell reports - 43(2024), 1 vom: 23. Jan., Seite 113575

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Qin, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Berk, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Chung, Yoon-Mi [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Di [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Ziqi [VerfasserIn]
Chakraborty, Abhishek A [VerfasserIn]
Sharifi, Nima [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3βHSD1
Androgen Antagonists
Androgen synthesis
Androgens
Autophagy
CP: Cancer
CP: Molecular biology
Enzyme
Germline
Hypoxia
Journal Article
Metabolism
Prostate cancer
Protein
Receptors, Androgen
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Steroid

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Date Completed 26.01.2024

Date Revised 12.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113575

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366724002