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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2016

The linker histone H1.0 generates epigenetic and functional intratumor heterogeneity.

Cristina Morales Torres, Alva Biran, Matthew J Burney, Harshil Patel, Tristan Henser-Brownhill, Ayelet-Hashahar Shapira Cohen, Yilong Li, Rotem Ben-Hamo, Emma Nye, Bradley Spencer-Dene and 6 more

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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16 authors.

Cristina Morales Torres *Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.
Alva Biran *Department of Genetics, The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
Matthew J BurneyCancer Epigenetics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.
Harshil PatelBioinformatics, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.
Tristan Henser-BrownhillCancer Epigenetics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.
Ayelet-Hashahar Shapira CohenDepartment of Genetics, The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
Yilong LiCancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB101SA, UK.
Rotem Ben-HamoThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.
Emma NyeExperimental Histopathology, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.
Bradley Spencer-DeneExperimental Histopathology, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.
Probir ChakravartyBioinformatics, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.
Sol EfroniThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.
Nik MatthewsAdvanced sequencing, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.
Tom MisteliNational Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Eran MeshorerDepartment of Genetics, The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
Paola ScaffidiCancer Epigenetics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.

Funding

Nuclear Architecture and DiseaseZIABC010309 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI MISTELI, THOMAS A · 2009 to 2025
$39.8M
Cancer Research UK 19256European Research Council 281781Medical Research Council FC001152Wellcome Trust FC001152
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumors comprise functionally diverse subpopulations of cells with distinct proliferative potential. Here, we show that dynamic epigenetic states defined by the linker histone H1.0 determine which cells within a tumor can sustain the long-term cancer growth. Numerous cancer types exhibit high inter- and intratumor heterogeneity of H1.0, with H1.0 levels correlating with tumor differentiation status, patient survival, and, at the single-cell level, cancer stem cell markers. Silencing of H1.0 promotes maintenance of self-renewing cells by inducing derepression of megabase-sized gene domains harboring downstream effectors of oncogenic pathways. Self-renewing epigenetic states are not stable, and reexpression of H1.0 in subsets of tumor cells establishes transcriptional programs that restrict cancer cells' long-term proliferative potential and drive their differentiation. Our results uncover epigenetic determinants of tumor-maintaining cells.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGenetic HeterogeneityAdenineCell Line, TumorDNADNA MethylationEnhancer Elements, GeneticGene Knockdown TechniquesHistonesHumansNeoplasmsNucleosomesRNA, Small InterferingThymineAdenineDNAHistonesNucleosomesRNA, Small InterferingThymine

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PMID27708074
PMCPMC5131846

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