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B via c-SRC– and Oxidant-Dependent Cell Death1 Liver Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas Esther Koplowitz, Instituto de Malalties Digestives, Hospital Clinic I Provincial and CIBEREHD, Instituto Salud Carlos III, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS and Department of Cell Death and Proliferation, Instituto Investigaciones Biomédicas, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain and 2 Department of Biochemical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Hypoxia is a prominent feature of solid tumor development and is known to stimulate mitochondrial ROS (mROS), which, in turn, can activate hypoxia-inducible transcription factor-1
and nuclear factor-
B (NF-
B). Because NF-
B plays a central role in carcinogenesis, we examined the mechanism of mROS-mediated NF-
B activation and the fate of cancer cells during hypoxia after mitochondrial reduced glutathione (mGSH) depletion. Hypoxia generated mROS in hepatoma (HepG2, H35), neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y), and colon carcinoma (DLD-1) cells, leading to hypoxia-inducible transcription factor-1
–dependent gene expression and c-Src activation that was prevented in cells expressing a redox-insensitive c-Src mutant (C487A). c-Src stimulation activated NF-
B without I
B-
degradation due to I
B-
tyrosine phosphorylation that was inhibited by rotenone/TTFA or c-Src antagonism. The c-Src–NF-
B signaling contributed to the survival of cells during hypoxia as c-Src inhibition or p65 down-regulation by small interfering RNA–sensitized HepG2 cells to hypoxia-induced cell death. Moreover, selective mGSH depletion resulted in an accelerated and enhanced mROS generation by hypoxia that killed SH-SY5Y and DLD-1 cells without disabling the c-Src–NF-
B pathway. Thus, although mROS promote cell survival by NF-
B activation via c-Src, mROS overgeneration may be exploited to sensitize cancer cells to hypoxia. [Cancer Res 2007;67(15):7368–77]
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