5-HT orchestrates histone serotonylation and citrullination to drive neutrophil extracellular traps and liver metastasis.

ABSTRACT: Serotonin (5-HT) is a neurotransmitter that has been linked to tumorigenesis. Whether and how 5-HT modulates cells in the microenvironment to regulate tumor metastasis is largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that 5-HT was secreted by neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) cells to communicate with neutrophils and to induce the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in the liver, which in turn facilitated the recruitment of disseminated cancer cells and promoted liver metastasis. 5-HT induced histone serotonylation (H3Q5ser) and orchestrated histone citrullination (H3cit) in neutrophils to trigger chromatin decondensation and facilitate the formation of NETs. Interestingly, we uncovered in this process a reciprocally reinforcing effect between H3Q5ser and H3cit and a crosstalk b

SUBMITTER: Liu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11996869 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature