Journal: Cell Death & Disease
Article Title: HNF4α-HKDC1 axis orchestrates a metabolic rewiring to promote migration and metastasis in advanced gastric cancer
doi: 10.1038/s41419-026-08627-y
Figure Lengend Snippet: A Overexpression of HNF4α7, but not HNF4α7(ΔDBD), resulted in an elevation of HKDC1 mRNA expression in HGC-27 and OCUM-1 cells. B Integration of HNF4α ChIP-seq data in seven HNF4α-positive GC cell lines (IM95, Ist1, KATO-III, NUGC4, OCUM-1, SNU16, and YCC3) and histone ChIP-seq data (H3K27ac, H3K4me3, and H3K4me1) in IM95 cell line from the GEO database ( GSE114018 and GSE75898 ) was performed at human HKDC1 gene locus ( NR_120648.1 ). The arrow indicated the direction of transcription. The blue frames denoted potential HNF4α binding regions, namely E1, E2, E3, E4 and E5. C HNF4α promoted the transcription of the potential HNF4α binding region E4. HEK293T cells transiently expressing or HGC-27 cells stably expressing pLV vector or pLV-HNF4α7 were cotransfected with pRL-TK and pGL6-TA constructs containing E1, E2, E3, E4, or E5, as indicated. Twenty-four hours later, cells were harvested, and a dual-luciferase reporter assay was conducted. D Two potential HNF4α response elements (HREs), namely S1 ( + 4323 ~ +4334 bp) and S2 ( + 4365 ~ +4376 bp), were predicted in the potential HNF4α binding region E4 within the human HKDC1 gene locus. The sequence (+4323 ~ +4381 bp, named S3), containing S1 and S2, was employed in subsequent experiments. E Overexpression of HNF4α7 promoted the transcription of S3, but not its mutant with mutations in both S1 and S2 mentioned in ( D ). HEK293T cells transiently expressing or HGC-27 cells stably expressing pLV vector or pLV-HNF4α7 were cotransfected with pRL-TK and pGL6-TA constructs containing S3 or its mutant, as indicated. F – H The binding of HNF4α to S3 within the human HKDC1 gene locus was detected by EMSA ( F ) and ChIP ( H ) assay. For EMSA, recombinant GST-HNF4α7 or its mutant GST-HNF4α7(ΔDBD) protein was incubated with biotin-labeled oligonucleotides of S3. Coomassie blue staining of the purified recombinant GST-HNF4α7 and GST-HNF4α7(ΔDBD) proteins is indicated in ( G ). For ChIP, HGC-27 cells (with HNF4α7 overexpressed beforehand) or AGS cells were harvested, and the ChIP assay was carried out. All data were shown as the mean ± SEM. The difference significance was analyzed by one-way ANOVA ( A ) or unpaired two-tailed Student’s t -test ( C , E ).
Article Snippet: Rabbit anti-HKDC1 antibody (Cat. #25874-1-AP, 1:1000 for WB) was obtained from Proteintech, Wuhan, China.
Techniques: Over Expression, Expressing, ChIP-sequencing, Binding Assay, Stable Transfection, Plasmid Preparation, Construct, Luciferase, Reporter Assay, Sequencing, Mutagenesis, Recombinant, Incubation, Labeling, Staining, Purification, Two Tailed Test