articleCancer ResearchMar 17, 2011Closed access

Targeting Tumor Hypoxia: Suppression of Breast Tumor Growth and Metastasis by Novel Carbonic Anhydrase IX Inhibitors

École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier · BC Cancer Agency · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

Carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX) is a hypoxia and HIF-1-inducible protein that regulates intra- and extracellular pH under hypoxic conditions and promotes tumor cell survival and invasion in hypoxic microenvironments. Interrogation of 3,630 human breast cancers provided definitive evidence of CAIX as an independent poor prognostic biomarker for distant metastases and survival. shRNA-mediated depletion of CAIX expression in 4T1 mouse metastatic breast cancer cells capable of inducing CAIX in hypoxia resulted in regression of orthotopic mammary tumors and inhibition of spontaneous lung metastasis formation. Stable depletion of CAIX in MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer xenografts also resulted in attenuation of primary…

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Keywords
  • Metastasis
  • Cancer research
  • Breast cancer
  • Tumor hypoxia
  • Metastatic breast cancer
  • Mammary tumor
  • Primary tumor
  • Cancer
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Good health and well-being
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