HIF1A

HIF1A
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesHIF1A, HIF-1-alpha, HIF-1A, HIF-1alpha, HIF1, HIF1-ALPHA, MOP1, PASD8, bHLHe78, hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha subunit, hypoxia inducible factor 1 subunit alpha, HIF-1α
External IDsOMIM: 603348; MGI: 106918; HomoloGene: 1171; GeneCards: HIF1A; OMA:HIF1A - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_181054
NM_001243084
NM_001530

NM_010431
NM_001313919
NM_001313920

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001230013
NP_001521
NP_851397
NP_001521.1

NP_001300848
NP_001300849
NP_034561

Location (UCSC)Chr 14: 61.7 – 61.75 MbChr 12: 73.95 – 73.99 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha, also known as HIF-1-alpha, is a subunit of a heterodimeric transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) that is encoded by the HIF1A gene.[5][6][7] The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 was awarded for the discovery of HIF.

HIF1A is a basic helix-loop-helix PAS domain containing protein, and is considered as the master transcriptional regulator of cellular and developmental response to hypoxia.[8][9] The dysregulation and overexpression of HIF1A by either hypoxia or genetic alternations have been heavily implicated in cancer biology, as well as a number of other pathophysiologies, specifically in areas of vascularization and angiogenesis, energy metabolism, cell survival, and tumor invasion.[7][10] The presence of HIF1A in a hypoxic environment is required to push forward normal placental development in early gestation.[11] Two other alternative transcripts encoding different isoforms have been identified.[7]

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000100644Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000021109Ensembl, May 2017
  3. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ^ Semenza GL, Rue EA, Iyer NV, Pang MG, Kearns WG (June 1996). "Assignment of the hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha gene to a region of conserved synteny on mouse chromosome 12 and human chromosome 14q". Genomics. 34 (3): 437–9. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0311. PMID 8786149.
  6. ^ Hogenesch JB, Chan WK, Jackiw VH, Brown RC, Gu YZ, Pray-Grant M, et al. (March 1997). "Characterization of a subset of the basic-helix-loop-helix-PAS superfamily that interacts with components of the dioxin signaling pathway". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272 (13): 8581–93. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.13.8581. PMID 9079689. S2CID 14908247.
  7. ^ a b c "Entrez Gene: HIF1A hypoxia-inducible factor 1, alpha subunit (basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor)".
  8. ^ Wang GL, Jiang BH, Rue EA, Semenza GL (June 1995). "Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 is a basic-helix-loop-helix-PAS heterodimer regulated by cellular O2 tension". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 92 (12): 5510–4. Bibcode:1995PNAS...92.5510W. doi:10.1073/pnas.92.12.5510. PMC 41725. PMID 7539918.
  9. ^ Iyer NV, Kotch LE, Agani F, Leung SW, Laughner E, Wenger RH, et al. (January 1998). "Cellular and developmental control of O2 homeostasis by hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha". Genes & Development. 12 (2): 149–62. doi:10.1101/gad.12.2.149. PMC 316445. PMID 9436976.
  10. ^ Semenza GL (October 2003). "Targeting HIF-1 for cancer therapy". Nature Reviews. Cancer. 3 (10): 721–32. doi:10.1038/nrc1187. PMID 13130303. S2CID 2448376.
  11. ^ Soares MJ, Iqbal K, Kozai K (October 2017). "Hypoxia and Placental Development". Birth Defects Research. 109 (17): 1309–1329. doi:10.1002/bdr2.1135. PMC 5743230. PMID 29105383.