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Oncohistone Mutations in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.
Trends in cancer - 1 Dec 2019
Zhang Xu, Zhang Zhiguo
Abstract excerpt
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a lethal pediatric tumor with no currently available treatment options. More than 60-70% DIPG tumors harbor heterozygous mutations at genes encoding histone H3 proteins that replace lysine 27 with methionine (K27M). In this review, we discuss how K27M mutation reprograms the cancer epigenome to lead to tumorigenesis, and highlight potential drug targets and therapeutic...
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