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A Role for Histone H2B Variants in Endocrine-Resistant Breast Cancer.
Hormones & cancer - 1 Dec 2015
Nayak Shweta R, Harrington Emily, Boone David, Hartmaier Ryan, Chen Jian, Pathiraja Thushangi N, Cooper Kristine L, Fine Jeffrey L, Sanfilippo Joseph, Davidson Nancy E, Lee Adrian V, Dabbs David, Oesterreich Steffi
Abstract excerpt
Acquired resistance to aromatase inhibitors (AIs) remains a major clinical problem in the treatment of estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer. We and others have previously reported widespread changes in DNA methylation using breast cancer cell line models of endocrine resistance. Here, we show that the histone variant HIST1H2BE is hypomethylated in estrogen deprivation-resistant C4-12 and long-term...
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