HIF-2α protects human hematopoietic stem/progenitors and acute myeloid leukemic cells from apoptosis induced by endoplasmic reticulum stress
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Kevin Rouault-Pierre Lourdes Lopez-Onieva Katie Foster Fernando Anjos-Afonso Isabelle Lamrissi-Garcia Martin Serrano-Sanchez Richard Mitter Zoran Ivanovic Hubert de Verneuil John Gribben David Taussig Hamid Reza Rezvani Frédéric Mazurier Dominique BonnetAbstract
Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) are exposed to low levels of oxygen in the bone marrow niche, and hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are the main regulators of cellular responses to oxygen variation. Recent studies using conditional knockout mouse models have unveiled a major role for HIF-1α in the maintenance of murine HSCs; however, the role of HIF-2α is still unclear. Here, we show that knockdown of HIF-2α, and to a much lesser extent HIF-1α, impedes the long-term repopulating ability of human CD34(+) umbilical cord blood cells. HIF-2α-deficient HSPCs display increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which subsequently stimulates endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and triggers apoptosis by activation of the unfolded-protein-response (UPR) pathway. HIF-2α deregulation also significantly decreased engraftment ability of human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells. Overall, our data demonstrate a key role for HIF-2α in the maintenance of human HSPCs and in the survival of primary AML cells.
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Publisher website (DOI) 10.1016/j.stem.2013.08.011
Europe PubMed Central 24095676
Pubmed 24095676
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