Article
Targeting SWI/SNF ATPases in H3.3K27M diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 May 2023
Mota Mateus, Sweha Stefan R, Pun Matt, Natarajan Siva Kumar, Ding Yujie, Chung Chan, Hawes Debra, Yang Fusheng, Judkins Alexander R, Samajdar Susanta, Cao Xuhong, Xiao Lanbo, Parolia Abhijit, Chinnaiyan Arul M, Venneti Sriram
Abstract excerpt
Diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) including diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs) bearing lysine-to-methionine mutations in histone H3 at lysine 27 (H3K27M) are lethal childhood brain cancers. These tumors harbor a global reduction in the transcriptional repressive mark H3K27me3 accompanied by an increase in the transcriptional activation mark H3K27ac. We postulated that H3K27M mutations, in addition to altering...
Topics
- Humans
- Child
- Histones
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
- Lysine
- Chromatin
- Glioma
- Brain Neoplasms
- Mutation
