“…In hypoxia, decreased proline hydroxylation causes HIF-1␣ to accumulate and translocate to the nucleus, where it binds to HIF-1, forming the transcriptionally competent HIF-1 that binds hypoxia response elements in DNA. HIF-regulated genes include plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), tumor necrosis factor ␣ (TNF␣), interleukin-1 (IL-1), and cell death proteins such as BNIP3 and Nix (Murdoch et al, 2005;Lee et al, 2007). HIF-1␣ expression and activation are also regulated by oxidative stress (Klimova and Chandel, 2008), inflammatory cytokines (Walmsley et al, 2005a), and thrombin (Görlach et al, 2001).…”