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PI3K/Akt and HIF‑1 signaling pathway in hypoxia‑ischemia (Review)

  • Authors:
    • Zhen Zhang
    • Li Yao
    • Jinhua Yang
    • Zhenkang Wang
    • Gang Du
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  • Published online on: August 9, 2018     https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2018.9375
  • Pages: 3547-3554
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Abstract

Hypoxia‑ischemia (H‑I) is frequently observed in perinatal asphyxia and other diseases. It can lead to serious cardiac injury, cerebral damage, neurological disability and mortality. Previous studies have demonstrated that the phosphatidylinositol‑3 kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt) signaling pathway, which regulates a wide range of cellular functions, is involved in the resistance response to H‑I through the activation of proteins associated with survival and inactivation of apoptosis‑associated proteins. It can also regulate the expression of hypoxia‑induced factor‑1α (HIF‑1α). HIF‑1α can further regulate the expression of downstream proteins involved in glucose metabolism and angiogenesis, such as vascular endothelial growth factor and erythropoietin, to facilitate ischemic adaptation. Notably, HIF‑1α may also induce detrimental effects. The effects of HIF‑1 on ischemic outcomes may be dependent on the H‑I duration, animal age and species. Thus, further investigation of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway may provide further insights of the potential targets for treating diseases accompanied by H‑I.

Introduction

Hypoxia-ischemia (H-I) commonly occurs during myocardial infarction, stroke and perinatal asphyxia. It can lead to severe injuries such as cerebral palsy (1), H-I brain damage, chronic neurological and neurodevelopmental disability in children, and even death (2). In addition, H-I may trigger massive cellular malfunction and cell death. On the other hand, the decline of cellular oxygen level during H-I also induces many compensatory responses, such as neovascularization (3), metabolic regulation and production of various neurotrophic mediators, which protect neurons from ischemic death. These processes also form part of an endogenous adaptive response that aims to defend and help tissues recover from ischemic injury (4). The rapid restoration of blood flow in the occluded coronary arteries following H-I is the most important aspect of the protective mechanism. Nevertheless, the early opening of an occluded coronary artery may lead to ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury (5,6).

It has been reported that phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway is involved in H-I. In this review, we have discussed the potential mechanism of PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in cellular responses for resisting H-I.

PI3K/Akt signaling pathway

PI3K/Akt signaling pathway regulates a wide range of cellular activities including cell survival, proliferation, metabolism, neuroscience, motility and cancer progression (7). PI3K belongs to a lipid kinase family which is characterized by their ability to phosphorylate inositol ring 3′-OH group in inositol phospholipids in the plasma membrane (8). PI3Ks are divided into two classes: Class-I and II. The function of class-I PI3K is to phosphorylate PIP-2 to generate the second messenger PIP-3 within sec (9). PIP-3 can mediate different cellular functions of PI3K through specific interactions with pleckstrin homology (PH) domain containing proteins such as Akt (10). Akt is considered as the central mediator of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway, which ultimately leads to the phosphorylation of some vital downstream targets (11). Furthermore, some negative regulators, such as phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN) inhibit PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. PTEN is a lipid phosphatase that negatively regulates the PI3K/Akt pathway by hydrolyzing PIP-3 to PIP-2, resulting in a lack of downstream p-Akt (12) (Fig. 1). PI3K and the downstream effector Akt belong to a conserved family of signal transduction enzymes, which are involved in regulating cellular activation, inflammatory responses and apoptosis (13).

PI3K/Akt signaling pathway is involved in H-I

It has been shown that H-I-induced injuries could be treated by certain agents that act on the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. In cerebral ischemia rats, p-Akt 473 and p-Akt 308 protein expression was significantly increased after treatment with silibinin, a compound of flavonolignan with anti-apoptotic, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative functions (14). Phosphorylated Akt promotes the phosphorylation of downstream molecules, including Bcl-2 apoptosis related family members, Forkhead box O3 (FoxO3a) transcription factor, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and glycogen synthase kinase-3, in order to protect cells from apoptosis. Bcl-2, an inhibitor of neuronal apoptosis, is significantly upregulated, while Bax, which can promote neuronal apoptosis, is significantly downregulated in cerebral ischemia rats treated with silibinin (15). Li et al (16) found that the PI3K/Akt/FoxO3a pathway is involved in neuronal apoptosis in the developing rat brain. Activated Akt phosphorylates FoxO3a, and leads to the cytoplasmic localization of FoxO3a and inhibition of apoptosis (17) (Fig. 1). In addition, sodium tanshinoneIIA sulfonate and bromelain protect the rat heart from I/R injury via the activation of PI3K/Akt/FoxO3a pathway (18). In the cytoplasm, mTOR, a phosphoinositide kinase-related kinase family member, serves as a Ser/Thr protein kinase (19). Previous study found that the regulatory mechanism of mTOR activity is related to the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway (14). Zhong et al (20) were among the first to show that activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)/PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway could positively regulate hypoxia-induced factor-1α (HIF-1α) at the protein level. Fibroblast growth factor-2 is a signaling molecular in the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. Activation of PI3K/Akt pathway by fibroblast growth factor-2 prevents reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced apoptosis and protects heart from I/R injury by decreasing infarct size and improving left ventricular function (21).

Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1)

A key regulator of the response to HI is HIF-1. HIF-1 is a heterodimeric transcription factor composed of an oxygen sensitive subunit HIF-1α and an aryl hydrocarbon nuclear translocator HIF-1β. Under normoxic condition, HIF-1α is hydroxylated at prolines 402 and 564 by HIF prolyl-4-hydroxylase, leading to its ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation through the ubiquitin-proteasome (26S) pathway, which can continuously provoke proteasomal degradation. Its destruction is caused by the ubiquitin E3 ligase complex, in which the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein (pVHL) is able to bind to the oxygen-dependent destruction domain on the subunit, resulting in a short half-life of the protein under normoxic conditions. In contrast, when HIF prolyl-4-hydroxylase is less active, HIF-1α is more stable. This stabilization allows HIF-1α to translocate to the nucleus and dimerize with its partner HIF-1β (Fig. 1). The HIF-1 dimer subsequently binds to the hypoxia response element site on DNA, initiating the expression of more than 100 genes that participate in hypoxic adaptation (22,23). HIF-1α is involved in pathologic conditions such as hypoxia or ischemia. HIF-1α has also been shown to regulate the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), erythropoietin (EPO) and glycolytic enzymes (24) (Fig. 2).

HIF-1α is regulated by PI3K/Akt signaling pathway

Previous studies have shown that HIF-1α is subjected to regulation by the PI3K/Akt/mTOR (20,25) and PI3K/Akt/FRAP (26) signaling pathways. The p-Akt and HIF-1α protein levels were shown to increase in response to hypoxia in human mesenchymal stem cells. Moreover, p-Akt expression peaked earlier than that of HIF-1α. Interestingly, the PI3K inhibitor LY294002 (27) and Dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitor NVP-BEZ235 (28) could suppress the activation of p-Akt and the expression of HIF-1α and VEGF resulted from H-I. The Akt inhibitor, wortmannin, could also inhibit the expression of HIF-1α at the protein, but not the mRNA level (7). mTOR is a hypoxia/nutrient sensor and a target of Akt during cell cycle regulation, glycogen metabolism and protein synthesis upon phosphorylation of its two main targets, eukaryotic initiation factor 4E-binding protein-1 and ribosomal protein S6 kinase (29). Moreover, mTOR is an upstream mediator of HIF-1α activation (30). Based on these previous findings, the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway could potentially regulates HIF-1α via mTOR, which could alter HIF-1α post-transcriptional protein level, but not at the transcriptional mRNA level.

It has been shown that the pVHL mutant fails to degrade HIF-1α, which implies that pVHL plays an important role in controlling the stability of HIF-1α (31). In another word, the stabilization of HIF-1α could be attributed to failure in pVHL-mediated ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. The proteasomal degradation process is often controlled by phosphorylation (32). Therefore, it is speculated that HIF-1α activity is under the control of protein kinase phosphorylation, potentially through the universal phosphorylation signal transduction pathway of the PI3K/Akt (33).

PI3K/HIF pathway and H-I

Protective effect

Under H-I condition, PI3K/HIF pathway plays important roles in cardio-protection and neuro-protection. The expression of HIF-1α has been shown to increase significantly in various ischemic organs and tissues, including myocardium, nervous system and retina (34). The protection of HIF-1 has also been widely reported in various H-I models. For example, HIF-1 has been demonstrated to participate in neuroprotection during permanent focal ischemia in vivo (22). Various iron chelators, such as deferoxamine mesylate and mimosine, protect neurons from apoptosis through activating HIF-1 in vitro or in vivo (35,36). These results reveal that induction of HIF-1 by ischemia itself or via pharmacological channels can protect against H-I. Furthermore, HIF-1 can regulate the expression of various genes, including EPO, VEGF, inducible nitric oxide synthase, hemeoxygenase, and cardiotropin as well as those involved in glucose metabolism, mitochondrial function, cell apoptosis, and resistance to oxidative stress that protect or restore cell functions and facilitate cellular adaptation to H-I (37,38).

A number of mechanisms have been proposed for the protective effect of HIF-1. HIF-1 has been found to protect cells from hypoxic injury by promoting nutrient and O2 transport via inducing the expression of downstream proteins such as VEGF and EPO, which promote angiogenesis and erythropoiesis. This induction is partly PI3K/Akt inhibition-dependent, suggesting a close relationship between PI3K/Akt, HIF-1α and the VEGF cascade in HI (7). EPO promotes the production and release of red blood cell into blood, thereby, enhancing the oxygen transport. Meanwhile, the increase in hemoglobin level also affects oxygen transport capacity, and ultimately reduces tissue damage. On the other hand, HIF-1 may prevent apoptotic cell death through inhibiting the release of cytochrome C, PARP cleavage and caspase activation. In addition, HIF-1 may maintain cell survival by suppressing p53 activation. Increased glucose transport and glycolytic flow consequential of HIF-1 activation by H-I has also been implicated in tissue viability and cell survival (39).

PI3K/HIF pathway regulates glucose metabolism

One important function of glucose metabolism is to sustain a reducing environment in cells by generating reducing equivalents through oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, and the pentose phosphate pathway (40). The switch from aerobic to anaerobic glucose metabolism by upregulating glucose transporters (GLUTs) and glycolysis-related enzymes, such as phosphofructokinase 1, fructose-bisphosphate aldolase, phosphoglycerate kinase 1, pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1, and lactate dehydrogenase, is one of the key mechanisms to maintain cellular energy production and cell survival during ischemia (39). The expression of these proteins is mainly controlled by HIFs. HIF-1 activation leads to increased oxygen and nutrient delivery via enhancing angiogenesis and erythropoiesis (41,42) and improving oxygen utilization in metabolism (43). Activated HIF-1 is either directly or indirectly associated with the upregulation of GLUTs (44) and glycolytic enzymes in glycolysis and lactate production (45,46) (Fig. 2). This effect ultimately leads to the upregulation of aerobic glycolysis in tumor cells, while dampening the oxidative phosphorylation pathway (47). GLUT1 is upregulated by H-RAS, at least in part, via PI3K/HIF (48). Some stimuli, such as insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1, epidermal growth factor and angiotensin II, are able to increase HIF-1α level in cells (49). Other key enzymes involved in metabolism are also upregulated to further ensure cellular survival (50). Other studies have further demonstrated that HIF-1 activation could be attributed to cellular mutations under non-hypoxic conditions. This phenomenon is resulted from inactivation of various tumor suppression genes, along with activation of numerous oncogenes, which then lead to mutations in several growth factor pathways, such as the loss of pVHL. HIF-1α inactivation is caused by a physical interaction with pVHL, which elicits the 26S proteasome response. Studies have also reported that the β domain of pVHL interacts directly with the HIF-1α subunits. Therefore, any mutation that affects the β domain of pVHL may prevent its interaction between HIF-1α and thereby lead to the constitutive activation of HIF-1 (51).

The glycolysis process is an important metabolic pathway in mammals. Similar to GLUT, Hexokinase (HK) acts as a rate-limiting enzyme and is the first glycolytic enzyme which facilitates the irreversible phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate in cells, thereby committing the glucose molecule to the glycolytic cycle. HIF-1 activation can upregulate the expression level of HK1 and HK2 (52). In addition, HIF-1 has been shown to effectively upregulate the expression of many other glycolytic enzymes, leading to enhanced glycolysis. The glycolytic flux triggered by HIF-1α is also related to the kinetic patterns of the expressed isoforms of the key glycolytic enzymes, which can further promote glycolytic energetic capability. Moreover, HIF-1 induces the transcription of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1, which effectively inhibits pyruvate dehydrogenase activity, thereby downregulating acetyl-CoA production and suppressing the TCA cycle (53). The level of Akt directly correlates with the rate of glucose uptake into the cell through the GLUT1 transporter (54). In addition, Akt can further influence glycolysis via HK2. Akt also activates FOXO3a to inhibit apoptosis and increases mitochondrial biogenesis to support a cellular survival (55). PKM2, an isoform of pyruvate kinase, harbors a hormone response element within its first intron, indicating that its transcriptional activity is regulated by HIF-1. PKM2 is also found to interact with HIF-1α in the nucleus and is believed to act as a transcriptional co-activator. It has been shown that activated tyrosine kinase inhibits pyruvate kinase, which further prevents pyruvate from entering into mitochondria and participating in the TCA cycle (56). Other studies on the glycolytic cycle have shown that increased pyruvate and lactate result in an increased expression of the monocarboxylate transporter (MCT) and lactate dehydrogenase (57). Although the mechanism is still unknown, reducing the expression of lactate dehydrogenase may lead to a decrease in production of lactate. On the other hand, MCT provides rapid transportation of monocarboxylate compounds, such as pyruvate and lactate, across plasma membrane, providing essential support for energy metabolism. Furthermore, activation of these transporters is closely related to HIF-1α. Previous studies have revealed that the inhibition of MCT1 can suppress lactate-induced HIF-1 activation. Whereas, the expression of MCT4 is mainly regulated by HIF-1α. Taken together, metabolism via the aerobic glycolytic pathway appears to be favored over the oxidative phosphorylation pathway in the presence of activated HIF. TCA cycle intermediates oxygen molecules and α-ketoglutarate is responsible for facilitating the degradation of HIF-1α (58).

PI3K/HIF pathway regulates angiogenesis

Angiogenesis is a key step in oxygen and nutrient transport. Therapeutic angiogenesis is an attractive approach for curing or alleviating ischemic cardiovascular disease (59). Angiogenesis plays an important role in the repair of tissues subjected to ischemic insult. Neovascularization is expected to reduce ventricular dysfunction and remodeling after myocardial infarction (MI) (60). The PI3K/Akt signaling pathway is crucial to inducing vascularization of heart and inhibiting cardiomyocyte apoptosis after MI (61,62). PI3K has several different isoforms (p110α, p110β, and p110δ), but only p110α is selectively required for angiogenesis (63). Interestingly, the protein kinase, Akt, has also been implicated as a mediator of cardio-protection (64). The activation of Ras and EGFR, a transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) that belongs to the HER family of receptors, upregulates HIF-1α via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway (65). EGFR/PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway increases VEGF and endothelial cell NO synthase (eNOS) expression by upregulating HIF-1α. VEGF, an endothelial-specific mitogen and survival factor, is one of the most potent angiogenic factors, and plays key roles in both angiogenesis and vasculogenesis. Hypoxia can increase eNOS phosphorylation by activating the PI3K/AKT pathway (66). HIF-1α can also directly influence the expression of eNOS, which can be activated by phosphorylation of the serine 1177 residue, thereby, triggering migration and angiogenesis (67) (Fig. 2). Accumulating evidence has shown that HIF-1α acts as a potential therapeutic proangiogenic molecule in experimental models (68,69). Furthermore, EGFR amplification and PTEN mutation exert an additive effect on increasing VEGF promoter activity in human glioblastoma cells. A recent study that explored the role of PTEN in hepatocellular carcinoma also found similar inhibition of angiogenesis (70). Elevated levels of VEGF can increase vascular permeability, leading to vessel leakage, sluggish blood flow, and elevated interstitial pressure. One of the potent stimuli for increased VEGF production is hypoxia (71). Binding of both STAT3 and HIF-1α to the VEGF promoter has been demonstrated to be essential for maximum transcription of VEGF mRNA under hypoxia (72). Therefore, therapies that affect HIF-1α expression could potentially induce neoangiogenesis in ischemic heart.

PI3K/HIF and I/R injury

The reintroduction of oxygen after H-I is inevitable, nevertheless, reperfusion is associated with exacerbation of I/R tissue injury caused by inflammatory responses and ROS production. Therefore, the alleviation of I/R injury is a popular strategy for treating diseases associated with H-I. Factors such as high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) may exert its protective effect by upregulating the protein expression of HIF-1α in the ischemic myocardium via enhancing Akt phosphorylation through the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. Treatment with LY294002 inhibits HMGB1-induced expression of HIF-1α and eliminates the cardioprotective effects exerted by intravenous HMGB1 in an I/R rat model. ROS can directly damage the cell membrane and cause cell death during I/R. Furthermore, ROS-mediated apoptosis and necrosis can be a determinant of infarct size. HMGB1 reduces the myocardial content of MDA and increases the activity of SOD induced by I/R, whereas LY294002 eliminates these effects (34). Guo et al (73) demonstrated that inhibiting HIF-1α expression by HIF-1α-specific small interfering RNA transfection increases ROS generation and promotes cell death. Cardiomyocyte-specific HIF-1α gene deletion leads to reduced contractility and vascularization, along with altering the expression of multiple genes in normoxic heart. I/R significantly increases the myocardial expression of HIF-1α, while HMGB1 also markedly upregulates the expression of HIF-1α. Furthermore, consistent with the increased expression of HIF-1α, the myocardial injury induced by I/R was inhibited by HMGB1. It was also found that intravenous HMGB1 increases SOD activity in the I/R myocardium, which suggests that these changes may be occurring downstream of its effects on HIF-1α overexpression. Thus, intravenous HMGB1 may exert its cardioprotective effects through increasing the expression of HIF-1α (34). In addition, increasing HIF-1α expression by drugs such as desferrioxamine, can induce a more reducing environment and decrease cell death. These results suggest that maintenance of cellular redox status via HIF-1 can protect cells from H-I mediated injuries (74).

Detrimental effects

Although HIF-1 exerts protective effects, it may also contribute to cellular and tissue damage. It has been reported that HIF-1 may mediate apoptosis in embryonic stem cells under hypoxic conditions (75). Similarly, it has been observed that HIF-1 signaling elicits delayed death via p53 in ischemic primary cortical neurons in vivo (76) and in vitro (77). Chen et al (78) has shown that inhibition of HIF-1 decreases the expression of VEGF and BCL2 interacting protein 3 (BNIP3) and thereby offering protection against delayed cell death. BNIP3 reduces increased levels of ROS via HIF-1-inducible mitochondrial autophagy (79), meanwhile causing mitochondrial dysfunction, opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pores, membrane depolarization and cell death. Two h of ischemia has been shown to result in damage of brain cortex and blood-brain barrier in the non-infarcted ventromedial striatum and preoptic area. BNIP3 is induced in the brain under H-I condition as a master regulator in hypoxia. Suppression of HIF-1α and VEGF has been shown to reduce acute hyperglycemia-induced HT in the ischemic brain (80). Moreover, the various protective effects through PI3K/AKT and HIF-1 pathways may become reverse in cancer hypoxic microenvironment. Multiple members of the lysyl oxidase family induced in an HIF-1-dependent manner are involved in Metastatic niche formation (81,82). It was shown that HIF-1 is involved in almost every key step of the breast cancer metastatic process including epithelial-mesenchymal transition, invasion, intravasation, extravasation, and metastatic niche formation (83).

Time pattern

Using the same neuron-specific HIF-1α knock-out mice, Baranova et al (84) and Helton et al (85) have reported distinct HIF-1 effects on neuronal injuries following ischemia. Baranova et al (84) found that the neuron-specific knockdown of HIF-1α increases tissue damage and reduces the survival rate of middle cerebral artery occlusion mice, suggesting that HIF-1 is neuroprotective in their ischemic model. On the other hand, Helton et al (85) observed that the knocking out of HIF-1α reduces ischemic injury, indicating that HIF-1 may lead to tissue damage in brain ischemia. Interestingly, the ischemic model that Baranova et al (84) used was subjected to 30 min ischemia with unilateral common carotid artery occlusion (mild ischemia), while Helton's model was exposed to 75 min ischemia with bilateral occlusion (severe ischemia). Studies have demonstrated an enhanced survival and migration capability of dendritic cells (86) and transplanted stem cells in the ischemic myocardium (87,88) via short-term hypoxic preconditioning. Similarly, Jian et al (89) observed that exposure of endothelial progenitor cells to hypoxia for 24 h showed an increase in tube formation and cell motility, while prolonged hypoxia of endothelial progenitor cells for 48 and 72 h were reversed in these effects. Meanwhile, mRNA expressions of Akt and PI3K demonstrated similarly tend in a time-dependent manner. Interestingly, hypoxic preconditioning at 1% O2 in various cell lines accumulated HIF1/2α protein after 4 h followed by a markedly reduce after 24 h to 7 days (90), and the significantly enhancement of HIF2α protein was contrasted by a dramatic reduce of HIF2α under hypoxia within 24 h (91). The varied observations support a notion that hypoxia may induce cell death in severe and prolonged ischemia, while promote cell survival following mild ischemic insults via HIF-1α and PI3K/Akt pathways. Therefore, effects of HIF-1 on ischemic outcomes may be dependent on the duration of H-I, animal age and species (7).

Future directions

Despite the relatively high incidence of ischemic cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease, limited therapies are currently available for its prevention and treatment (92,93). Although the survival rate for pre-term infants has been increased, neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy still occur in most survivors (94). PI3K/HIF pathway is important for both the mechanistic understanding and therapeutic intervention of diseases associate with H-I such as stroke, cardiovascular disease, cerebral ischemia and perinatal asphyxia. Interestingly, HIF-1 and PI3K/Akt appears to be involved in the cellular responses to H-I, but with a double-edged sword effect, which could possibly be dependent on the degree and duration of H-I. Therefore, therapies for hypoxic injury should be selected with this caveat in mind, and further study is necessary to find the optimal hypoxic pattern of different cell types. Understanding the mechanism of HIF-1 and PI3K/Akt accumulation would undoubtedly provide important insight into its role in H-I and provide potential approaches to regulate its expression.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr Qiang Lin (Department of Rehabilitation, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China) for his linguistic work on this manuscript.

Funding

The present study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (grant no. 2015A030313254) and the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (grant no. 2014A020212493).

Availability of data and materials

All data generated or analyzed during the present study are included in this published article.

Authors' contributions

ZZ, LY and JY designed the study and drafted the manuscript. ZZ and ZW performed the data collection and generated the figures. ZZ and GD conceived the research and were in charge of overall direction and planning. All authors approved the final manuscript.

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Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Glossary

Abbreviations

Abbreviations:

H-I

hypoxia-ischemia

HIF-1α

hypoxia-induced factor-1α

MI

myocardial infarction

I/R

ischemia/reperfusion

PI3K

phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase

RTK

receptor tyrosine kinase

PH

pleckstrin homology

PTEN

phosphatase and tensin homologue

FoxO3a

Forkhead box O3

mTOR

mammalian target of rapamycin

FRAP

FKBP-rapamycin associated protein

pVHL

von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein

P300/CBP

cyclic-adenosine monophosphate-response element-binding protein binding protein

VEGF

vascular endothelial growth factor

EPO

erythropoietin

GLUTs

glucose transporters

HK

hexokinase

MCT

monocarboxylate transporter

EGFR

epidermal growth factor receptor

eNOS

endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase

ROS

reactive oxygen species

HMGB1

high mobility group box 1

BNIP3

B-cell lymphoma-2 interacting protein 3

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