Hypoxia-inducible transcription factor 1 (HIF-1) has been shown to enhance microbial killing and ameliorate the course of bacterial infections. While the impact of HIF-1 on inflammatory diseases of the gut has been studied intensively, its function in bacterial infections of the gastrointestinal tract remains largely elusive. With the help of a publicly available gene expression data set, we inferred significant activation of HIF-1 after oral infection of mice with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Immunohistochemistry and Western blot analyses confirmed marked HIF-1α protein stabilization, especially in the intestinal epithelium. This prompted us to analyze conditional -deficient mice to examine cell type-specific functions of HIF-1 in this model. Our results demonstrate enhanced noncanonical induction of HIF-1 activity upon Salmonella infection in the intestinal epithelium as well as in macrophages. Surprisingly, deletion in intestinal epithelial cells did not impact inflammatory gene expression, bacterial spread, or disease outcomes. In contrast, deletion in myeloid cells enhanced intestinal expression and reduced the cecal Salmonella load. , HIF-1α-deficient macrophages showed overall impaired transcription of mRNA encoding proinflammatory factors; however, the intracellular survival of Salmonella was not impacted by HIF-1α deficiency.

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