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Project description:Cancer Associated Histone Mutations
| PRJNA867413 | ENA
Project description:Cancer-associated Histone H3 N-terminal arginine mutations disrupt PRC2 activity and impair differentiation. Middle down analysis of histone H3 WT or mutant
2023-07-27 | MSV000092535 | MassIVE
Project description:Dysregulated epigenetic states are a hallmark of cancer and often arise from genetic alterations in epigenetic regulators. This includes missense mutations in histones, which, together with associated DNA, form nucleosome core particles. However, the oncogenic mechanisms of most histone mutations are unknown. Here, we demonstrate that cancer-associated histone mutations at arginines in the histone H3 N-terminal tail disrupt repressive chromatin domains, alter gene regulation, and dysregulate differentiation. We find that histone H3R2C and R26C mutants reduce transcriptionally repressive H3K27me3. While H3K27me3 depletion in cells expressing these mutants was exclusively observed on the minor fraction of histone tails harboring the mutations, the same mutants recurrently disrupted broad H3K27me3 domains in the chromatin context, including near developmentally regulated promoters. H3K27me3 loss led to de-repression of differentiation pathways, with concordant effects between H3R2 and H3R26 mutants despite different proximity to the PRC2 substrate, H3K27. Functionally, H3R26C-expressing mesenchymal progenitor cells and murine embryonic stem cell-derived teratomas demonstrated impaired differentiation. Collectively, these data show that cancer-associated H3 N-terminal arginine mutations reduce PRC2 activity and disrupt chromatin-dependent developmental functions, a cancer-relevant phenotype.
2024-04-29 | GSE239637 | GEO
Project description:Dysregulated epigenetic states are a hallmark of cancer and often arise from genetic alterations in epigenetic regulators. This includes missense mutations in histones, which, together with associated DNA, form nucleosome core particles. However, the oncogenic mechanisms of most histone mutations are unknown. Here, we demonstrate that cancer-associated histone mutations at arginines in the histone H3 N-terminal tail disrupt repressive chromatin domains, alter gene regulation, and dysregulate differentiation. We find that histone H3R2C and R26C mutants reduce transcriptionally repressive H3K27me3. While H3K27me3 depletion in cells expressing these mutants was exclusively observed on the minor fraction of histone tails harboring the mutations, the same mutants recurrently disrupted broad H3K27me3 domains in the chromatin context, including near developmentally regulated promoters. H3K27me3 loss led to de-repression of differentiation pathways, with concordant effects between H3R2 and H3R26 mutants despite different proximity to the PRC2 substrate, H3K27. Functionally, H3R26C-expressing mesenchymal progenitor cells and murine embryonic stem cell-derived teratomas demonstrated impaired differentiation. Collectively, these data show that cancer-associated H3 N-terminal arginine mutations reduce PRC2 activity and disrupt chromatin-dependent developmental functions, a cancer-relevant phenotype.
2024-04-29 | GSE239636 | GEO
Project description:Dysregulated epigenetic states are a hallmark of cancer and often arise from genetic alterations in epigenetic regulators. This includes missense mutations in histones, which, together with associated DNA, form nucleosome core particles. However, the oncogenic mechanisms of most histone mutations are unknown. Here, we demonstrate that cancer-associated histone mutations at arginines in the histone H3 N-terminal tail disrupt repressive chromatin domains, alter gene regulation, and dysregulate differentiation. We find that histone H3R2C and R26C mutants reduce transcriptionally repressive H3K27me3. While H3K27me3 depletion in cells expressing these mutants was exclusively observed on the minor fraction of histone tails harboring the mutations, the same mutants recurrently disrupted broad H3K27me3 domains in the chromatin context, including near developmentally regulated promoters. H3K27me3 loss led to de-repression of differentiation pathways, with concordant effects between H3R2 and H3R26 mutants despite different proximity to the PRC2 substrate, H3K27. Functionally, H3R26C-expressing mesenchymal progenitor cells and murine embryonic stem cell-derived teratomas demonstrated impaired differentiation. Collectively, these data show that cancer-associated H3 N-terminal arginine mutations reduce PRC2 activity and disrupt chromatin-dependent developmental functions, a cancer-relevant phenotype.
2024-04-29 | GSE239632 | GEO
Project description:Cancer-associated Histone H3 N-terminal arginine mutations disrupt PRC2 activity and impair differentiation
| PRJNA1000460 | ENA
Project description:Histone H3.3 G34 mutations alter histone H3K36 and H3K27 methylation in cis
| PRJNA433584 | ENA
Project description:High-throughput sequencing of numerous patient samples has identified a myriad of frequent mutations of epigenetic regulators in human cancers, including recently discovered mutations in histone-encoding genes. Lysine-to-methionine mutations such as H3K27M and H3K36M share a common mechanism of inhibiting methylation pathways at the genome-wide level to promote tumorigenesis. However, the mechanism underlying the molecular and cellular changes due to H3G34 alterations is yet to be determined. H3G34 itself is not post-translationally modified; however, G34 lies in close proximity to K36, which undergoes methylation during transcriptional elongation. In Hela cells, H3.3G34L/W mutations have no effect on global levels of methylation on H3K36, H3K27, or other major methylation sites on endogenous histone H3, which include both H3.3 and the canonical H3.1/H3.2 proteins. However, long exposures of the blots revealed that methylation on the ectopic Flag-H3.3 proteins are affected by G34 mutations: with di- and trimethylation on H3K36 and H3K27ac reduced whereas H3K27me3 increased in the G34L and G34W mutated H3.3 compared to the WT H3.3. ChIP-seq results showed that mutations of H3.3G34 affect methylation on H3K36 and H3K27 in cis. G34L/W mutants abolish SETD2 methylation of H3K36. In contrast, the enzymatic activities of both EZH2 and p300 on H3K27 are not affected by G34 mutations. Consistent with changes in H3K27me3 and H3K36m3 levels, we found increased binding of PRC2 (EZH2, SUZ12 and EED) and PRC1 complex components (CBX8 and RING2) and reduced binding of H3.3K36me3 reader such as ZMYND11 to the G34 mutants. In summary, our study revealed that histone H3.3 G34 mutations alter histone K36 and K27 methylation in cis, and affect the binding of readers specific to K36 or K27 methylation.
2018-04-26 | GSE110389 | GEO
Project description:Surprising Phenotypic Diversity of Cancer-associated mutations at Gly 34 in the Histone H3 tail
| PRJNA682226 | ENA
Project description:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a lethal brain tumour in adults and children. However, DNA copy number and gene expression signatures indicate differences between adult and paediatric cases. To explore the genetic events underlying this distinction, we sequenced the exomes of 48 paediatric GBM samples. Somatic mutations in the H3.3-ATRX-DAXX chromatin remodelling pathway were identified in 44% of tumours (21/48). Recurrent mutations in H3F3A, which encodes the replication-independent histone 3 variant H3.3, were observed in 31% of tumours, and led to amino acid substitutions at two critical positions within the histone tail (K27M, G34R/G34V) involved in key regulatory post-translational modifications. Mutations in ATRX (alpha-thalassaemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked) and DAXX (death-domain associated protein), encoding two subunits of a chromatin remodelling complex required for H3.3 incorporation at pericentric heterochromatin and telomeres, were identified in 31% of samples overall, and in 100% of tumours harbouring a G34R or G34V H3.3 mutation. Somatic TP53 mutations were identified in 54% of all cases, and in 86% of samples with H3F3A and/or ATRX mutations. Screening of a large cohort of gliomas of various grades and histologies (n=784) showed H3F3A mutations to be specific to GBM and highly prevalent in children and young adults. Furthermore, the presence of H3F3A/ATRX-DAXX/TP53 mutations was strongly associated with alternative lengthening of telomeres and specific gene expression profiles. This is, to our knowledge, the first report to highlight recurrent mutations in a regulatory histone in humans, and our data suggest that defects of the chromatin architecture underlie paediatric and young adult GBM pathogenesis.
| EGAS00001000226 | EGA