Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Structural basis for oxygen degradation domain selectivity of the HIF prolyl hydroxylases

  • Rasheduzzaman Chowdhury,
  • Ivanhoe K. H. Leung,
  • Ya-Min Tian,
  • Martine I. Abboud,
  • Wei Ge,
  • Carmen Domene,
  • François-Xavier Cantrelle,
  • Isabelle Landrieu,
  • Adam P. Hardy,
  • Christopher W. Pugh,
  • Peter J. Ratcliffe,
  • Timothy D. W. Claridge,
  • Christopher J. Schofield

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12673
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The response to hypoxia involves multiple genes regulated by the hypoxia inducible transcription factors (HIFs), whose stability is regulated by prolyl hydroxylation. Here the authors provide a molecular basis for the substrate selectivity of the HIF prolyl hydroxylases that can be altered in erythrocytosis and cancer.