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  • Title: Mutation analysis of the HIF-1alpha oxygen-dependent degradation domain in invasive breast cancer.
    Author: Vleugel MM, Greijer AE, van der Wall E, van Diest PJ.
    Journal: Cancer Genet Cytogenet; 2005 Dec; 163(2):168-72. PubMed ID: 16337862.
    Abstract:
    Hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is an important transcription factor that stimulates tumor growth and metastases via several pathways. Activation of HIF-1 depends on the presence of its alpha-subunit. Hypoxia increases HIF-1alpha levels by inhibiting prolyl-hydroxylase--mediated hydroxylation and thereby preventing proteosome degradation. Various other mechanisms might also contribute to HIF-1alpha expression, such as mutation of the oxygen dependent degradation domain (ODD), which prevents binding of prolyl-hydroxylases. Therefore, the presence of ODD mutations was evaluated as a possible explanation for diffuse HIF-1alpha protein expression often seen in invasive breast cancer. From a group of 200 primary breast cancers, 24 strong diffusely HIF-1alpha-positive tumor samples were identified with HIF-1alpha immunohistochemistry. DNA from these tumors was extracted from microdissected paraffin material and, after nested polymerase chain reaction, sequence analysis was performed to detect hif-1alpha ODD mutations. Additionally, five perinecrotically HIF-1alpha-positive breast cancers were analyzed as controls. All 24 diffuse and perinecrotic HIF-1alpha-positive breast cancers showed wild-type DNA sequences in the ODD domain. No mutations seem to occur in the ODD of hif-1alpha in HIF-1alpha overexpressing invasive breast cancer, which rules ODD mutations out as a possible explanation for the diffuse HIF-1alpha expression pattern often seen in this cancer.
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