title: Oxygen-mediated endocytosis in cancer.
abstract: Solid tumours invariably exhibit regions of hypoxia and up-regulation of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) that trigger multiple signal pathways, including those that govern cell proliferation, survival and motility, ultimately contributing to oncogenesis. Although past studies have shown hypoxia-dependent transcriptional and translational induction of several RTK expression and their respective ligands, recent evidence suggests that hypoxia regulates RTK signalling through endocytosis, a major deactivation pathway of RTKs. Hypoxia-mediated endocytosis is also thought to modulate the activity of a growing list of other membrane-associated proteins such as integrins and Na,K-ATPase. These recent discoveries underscore the emergence of endocytosis as an important hypoxia-mediated regulatory process in cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohh
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004705:Endocytosis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism*; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction; D051794:Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D051794:Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D010100:Oxygen