The role and mechanism of hypoxia in regulating parthanatos in hepatocellular carcinoma

Recently, a PARP1-dependent cell-death process termed "parthanatos", driven by DNA damage, has emerged as a crucial regulator of tissue homeostasis and tumorigenesis. Hypoxia is a hallmark of solid tumors and profoundly affects the malignant phenotypes of cancer cells. The crosstalk between parthanatos and hypoxia remains poorly understood. In our study, we find that despite causing DNA damage, hypoxia fails to induce parthanatos in HCC. Transcriptome sequencing upon MNNG stimulation indicated that the creatine transporter solute carrier family 6, member 8 (SLC6A8) was involved in parthanatos antagonism and malignant phenotypes in hypoxic HCC cells. RNA-seq profiling of MNNG (50μM) treated HCC cells under normoxia or hypoxia for 48 hours.