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 …

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 …

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 …

Structural basis of paralog-specific KDM2A/B nucleosome recognition

CJ Spangler, A Skrajna, CA Foley, A Nguyen… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
The nucleosome acidic patch is a major interaction hub for chromatin, providing a platform
for enzymes to dock and orient for nucleosome-targeted activities. To define the molecular …

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 …

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 …

TGM2-mediated histone transglutamination is dictated by steric accessibility

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

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 …

Deciphering principles of nucleosome interactions and impact of cancer-associated mutations from comprehensive interaction network analysis

W Xu, H Zhang, W Guo, L Jiang, Y Zhao… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Nucleosomes represent hubs in chromatin organization and gene regulation and interact
with a plethora of chromatin factors through different modes. In addition, alterations in …