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HIF2A and IGF2 Expression Correlates in Human Neuroblastoma Cells and Normal Immature Sympathetic Neuroblasts.

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Summary, in English

During normal sympathetic nervous system (SNS) development, cells of the ganglionic lineage can malignantly transform and develop into the childhood tumor neuroblastoma. Hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIFs) mediate cellular responses during normal development and are central in the adaptation to oxygen shortage. HIFs are also implicated in the progression of several cancer forms, and high HIF-2α expression correlates with disseminated disease and poor outcome in neuroblastoma. During normal SNS development, is transiently expressed in neuroblasts and chromaffin cells. SNS cells can, during development, be distinguished by distinct gene expression patterns, and () is a marker of sympathetic chromaffin cells, whereas sympathetic neuroblasts lack expression. Despite the neuronal derivation of neuroblastomas, we show that neuroblastoma cell lines and specimens express and that expression of and correlates, with the strongest correlation in high-stage tumors. In neuroblastoma, both and are hypoxia-driven and knocking down at hypoxia resulted in downregulated levels. HIF-2α and were strongly expressed in subsets of immature neuroblastoma cells, suggesting that these two genes could be co-expressed also at early stages of SNS development. We show that is indeed expressed in sympathetic chain ganglia at embryonic week 6.5, a developmental stage when HIF-2α is present. These findings provide a rationale for the unexpected expression in neuroblastomas and might suggest that and positive neuroblastoma cells are arrested at an embryonic differentiation stage corresponding to the stage when sympathetic chain ganglia begins to coalesce.

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Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

328-334

Publication/Series

Neoplasia

Volume

15

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Neoplasia Press

Topic

  • Cancer and Oncology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1522-8002