[HTML][HTML] Histone mutations in cancer

KN Espinoza Pereira, J Shan, JD Licht… - Biochemical Society …, 2023‏ - portlandpress.com
Genes encoding histone proteins are recurrently mutated in tumor samples, and these
mutations may impact nucleosome stability, histone post-translational modification, or …

Oncohistones: Exposing the nuances and vulnerabilities of epigenetic regulation

MM Mitchener, TW Muir - Molecular cell, 2022‏ - cell.com
Work over the last decade has uncovered a new layer of epigenetic dysregulation. It is now
appreciated that somatic missense mutations in histones, the packaging agents of genomic …

cBAF complex components and MYC cooperate early in CD8+ T cell fate

A Guo, H Huang, Z Zhu, MJ Chen, H Shi, S Yuan… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The identification of mechanisms to promote memory T (Tmem) cells has important
implications for vaccination and anti-cancer immunotherapy,,–. Using a CRISPR-based …

Tracking chromatin state changes using nanoscale photo-proximity labelling

CP Seath, AJ Burton, X Sun, G Lee, RE Kleiner… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Interactions between biomolecules underlie all cellular processes and ultimately control cell
fate. Perturbation of native interactions through mutation, changes in expression levels or …

Cancer-associated Histone H3 N-terminal arginine mutations disrupt PRC2 activity and impair differentiation

BA Nacev, Y Dabas, MR Paul, C Pacheco… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Dysregulated epigenetic states are a hallmark of cancer and often arise from genetic
alterations in epigenetic regulators. This includes missense mutations in histones, which …

Interrogating epigenetic mechanisms with chemically customized chromatin

N Hananya, S Koren, TW Muir - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024‏ - nature.com
Genetic and genomic techniques have proven incredibly powerful for identifying and
studying molecular players implicated in the epigenetic regulation of DNA-templated …

TGM2-mediated histone transglutamination is dictated by steric accessibility

BJ Lukasak, MM Mitchener, L Kong, BE Dul… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Recent studies have identified serotonylation of glutamine-5 on histone H3 (H3Q5ser) as a
novel posttranslational modification (PTM) associated with active transcription. While …

Epigenetic modification regulates tumor progression and metastasis through EMT

T Tan, P Shi, MN Abbas, Y Wang… - International …, 2022‏ - spandidos-publications.com
Epigenetics is the study of heritable molecular determinants that are independent of
phenotypic features. The epigenetic features include DNA methylation, histone …

Pan-cancer atlas of somatic core and linker histone mutations

ER Bonner, A Dawood, H Gordish-Dressman… - npj Genomic …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Recent genomic data points to a growing role for somatic mutations altering core histone
and linker histone-encoding genes in cancer. However, the prevalence and the clinical and …

Oncohistones and disrupted development in pediatric-type diffuse high-grade glioma

JK Ocasio, KM Budd, JT Roach, JM Andrews… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2023‏ - Springer
Recurrent, clonal somatic mutations in histone H3 are molecular hallmarks that distinguish
the genetic mechanisms underlying pediatric and adult high-grade glioma (HGG), define …