The Factor Inhibiting HIF Asparaginyl Hydroxylase Regulates Oxidative Metabolism and Accelerates Metabolic Adaptation to Hypoxia

Cell Metab. 2018 Apr 3;27(4):898-913.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2018.02.020.

Abstract

Animals require an immediate response to oxygen availability to allow rapid shifts between oxidative and glycolytic metabolism. These metabolic shifts are highly regulated by the HIF transcription factor. The factor inhibiting HIF (FIH) is an asparaginyl hydroxylase that controls HIF transcriptional activity in an oxygen-dependent manner. We show here that FIH loss increases oxidative metabolism, while also increasing glycolytic capacity, and that this gives rise to an increase in oxygen consumption. We further show that the loss of FIH acts to accelerate the cellular metabolic response to hypoxia. Skeletal muscle expresses 50-fold higher levels of FIH than other tissues: we analyzed skeletal muscle FIH mutants and found a decreased metabolic efficiency, correlated with an increased oxidative rate and an increased rate of hypoxic response. We find that FIH, through its regulation of oxidation, acts in concert with the PHD/vHL pathway to accelerate HIF-mediated metabolic responses to hypoxia.

Keywords: HIF; hypoxia; metabolism.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Physiological*
  • Animals
  • Cell Hypoxia
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Glycolysis / physiology
  • Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-Proline Dioxygenases / metabolism
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mixed Function Oxygenases / metabolism*
  • Oxygen / metabolism*
  • Oxygen Consumption
  • Procollagen-Proline Dioxygenase / metabolism
  • Signal Transduction
  • Transcription, Genetic
  • Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein / metabolism

Substances

  • Mixed Function Oxygenases
  • factor inhibiting hypoxia-inducible factor 1, mouse
  • PHD1 protein, mouse
  • PHD3 protein, mouse
  • Procollagen-Proline Dioxygenase
  • Egln1 protein, mouse
  • Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-Proline Dioxygenases
  • Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein
  • VHL protein, mouse
  • Oxygen