Communications Biology (Feb 2021)

Plk1, upregulated by HIF-2, mediates metastasis and drug resistance of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

  • Maeva Dufies,
  • Annelies Verbiest,
  • Lindsay S. Cooley,
  • Papa Diogop Ndiaye,
  • Xingkang He,
  • Nicolas Nottet,
  • Wilfried Souleyreau,
  • Anais Hagege,
  • Stephanie Torrino,
  • Julien Parola,
  • Sandy Giuliano,
  • Delphine Borchiellini,
  • Renaud Schiappa,
  • Baharia Mograbi,
  • Jessica Zucman-Rossi,
  • Karim Bensalah,
  • Alain Ravaud,
  • Patrick Auberger,
  • Andréas Bikfalvi,
  • Emmanuel Chamorey,
  • Nathalie Rioux-Leclercq,
  • Nathalie M. Mazure,
  • Benoit Beuselinck,
  • Yihai Cao,
  • Jean Christophe Bernhard,
  • Damien Ambrosetti,
  • Gilles Pagès

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01653-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Dufies et al. find high Plk1 expression levels in aggressive clear cell renal cell carcinoma and discover that Plk1 is transcriptionally upregulated in a manner dependent on HIF-2. They also find that high Plk1 expression is correlated to a poor prognosis and resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitor against VEGF receptor, suggesting a critical role for hypoxia/HIF-2-induced Plk1 in disease progression.