Cathepsin L expression is up-regulated by hypoxia in human melanoma cells: role of its 5′-untranslated region

Author:

Jean Didier1,Rousselet Nathalie1,Frade Raymond1

Affiliation:

1. INSERM U.672 (former U.354), Immunochemistry of Cell Regulations and Virus Interactions, Bâtiment G8, Campus 1, 5, rue Henri Desbruères, 91030 – EVRY Cedex, FRANCE

Abstract

Overexpression of cathepsin L, a cysteine protease, and consequently procathepsin L secretion switch the phenotype of human melanoma cells to highly tumorigenic and strongly metastatic. This led us to identify the DNA regulatory sequences involved in the regulation of cathepsin L expression in highly metastatic human melanoma cells. The results of the present study demonstrated the presence of regulatory sequences in the 3′ region downstream of the cathepsin L gene and in the 3′- and 5′-flanking regions of GC/CCAAT sites of its promoter. In addition, we established that the 5′-UTR (untranslated region) was the most important region for cathepsin L expression. This 5′-UTR integrated an alternative promoter and sequences involved in post-transcriptional regulation. Transfection experiments of bicistronic reporter vectors and RNAs demonstrated that the cathepsin L 5′-UTR contained a functional IRES (internal ribosome entry site). This complete IRES was present only in one of the three splice variants, which differed in their 5′-UTR. Then, we analysed cathepsin L expression in this human melanoma cell line grown under hypoxia. We demonstrated that under moderate hypoxic conditions (1% O2) intracellular expression of cathepsin L was up-regulated. Hypoxia significantly increased only the expression of the transcript which contains the complete IRES, but inhibited promoter activity. These results suggest that the presence of an IRES allowed cathepsin L mRNA translation to be efficient under hypoxic conditions. Altogether, our results indicated that in vivo a tumour hypoxic environment up-regulates cathepsin L expression which promotes tumour progression.

Publisher

Portland Press Ltd.

Subject

Cell Biology,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry

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