Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Loss of Phd2 cooperates with BRAF V600E to drive melanomagenesis

  • Shujing Liu,
  • Gao Zhang,
  • Jianping Guo,
  • Xiang Chen,
  • Jingce Lei,
  • Kan Ze,
  • Liyun Dong,
  • Xiangpeng Dai,
  • Yang Gao,
  • Daisheng Song,
  • Brett L. Ecker,
  • Ruifeng Yang,
  • Caitlin Feltcher,
  • Kai Peng,
  • Cheng Feng,
  • Hui Chen,
  • Rebecca X. Lee,
  • Heddy Kerestes,
  • Jingwen Niu,
  • Suresh Kumar,
  • Weiting Xu,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Zhi Wei,
  • James S. Martin,
  • Xiaoming Liu,
  • Gordon Mills,
  • Yiling Lu,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Lunquan Sun,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Ashani Weeraratna,
  • Meenhard Herlyn,
  • Wenyi Wei,
  • Frank S. Lee,
  • Xiaowei Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07126-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Prolyl hydroxylase domain protein 2 (PHD2) regulates cellular response to hypoxia. Here the authors show that PHD2 is downregulated in melanoma and that PHD2 depletion, in a mouse model, promotes the progression of benign melanocytic lesions into melanoma, via activation of the Akt/mTOR signaling cascade.