Epigenetic Regulation During Hypoxia and Its Implications in Cancer
- 28 October 2022
- book chapter
- other
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Vol. 100, 361-390
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07634-3_11
Abstract
Hypoxia is defined as a cellular stress condition caused by a decrease in oxygen below physiologically normal levels. Cells in the core of a rapidly growing solid tumor are faced with the challenge of inadequate supply of oxygen through the blood, owing to improper vasculature inside the tumor. This hypoxic microenvironment inside the tumor initiates a gene expression program that alters numerous signaling pathways, allowing the cancer cell to eventually evade adverse conditions and attain a more aggressive phenotype. A multitude of studies covering diverse aspects of gene regulation has tried to uncover the mechanisms involved in hypoxia-induced tumorigenesis. The role of epigenetics in executing widespread and dynamic changes in gene expression under hypoxia has been gaining an increasing amount of support in recent years. This chapter discusses, in detail, various epigenetic mechanisms driving the cellular response to hypoxia in cancer. Keywords Hypoxia Epigenetics Cancer DNA methylation Histone modifications Chromatin modifications Noncoding RNA RNA methylationKeywords
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