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ArticleCancers2023

WDR82-Mediated H3K4me3 Is Associated with Tumor Proliferation and Therapeutic Efficacy in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas.

Nitin Wadhwani, Sonali Nayak, Yufen Wang, Rintaro Hashizume, Chunfa Jie, Barbara Mania-Farnell, Charles David James, Guifa Xi, Tadanori Tomita

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Article in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Nitin WadhwaniDepartment of Pathology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Sonali NayakDivision of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Yufen WangDepartment of Radio-oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Rintaro HashizumeDepartment of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Chunfa JieDepartment of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines, IA 50312, USA.
Barbara Mania-FarnellDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN 46323, USA.
Charles David JamesDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Guifa XiDivision of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Tadanori TomitaDivision of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Northwestern University · USNeurological Surgery · USDes Moines University · USLurie Children's Hospital · USPurdue University Northwest · US

Funding

STINGing GBM: A First-in- Man Clinical Trial in Surgical Resectable Recurrent GBMP50CA221747 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Hui Zhang · 2018 to 2026
$21.4M
Targeting Transcriptional Elongation in Pediatric GliomaR01NS126513 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Rintaro Hashizume · 2022 to 2026
$1.9M
Targeting histone demethylase activity for the treatment of pediatric brainstem gliomaR01NS093079 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HASHIZUME, RINTARO · 2015 to 2019
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA221747NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS093079NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS126513
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGGs) are common malignant brain tumors without effective treatment and poor patient survival. Abnormal posttranslational modification at the histone H3 tail plays critical roles in tumor cell malignancy. We have previously shown that the trimethylation of lysine 4 at histone H3 (H3K4me3) plays a significant role in pediatric ependymoma malignancy and is associated with tumor therapeutic sensitivity. Here, we show that H3K4me3 and its methyltransferase WDR82 are elevated in pHGGs. A reduction in H3K4me3 by downregulating WDR82 decreases H3K4me3 promoter occupancy and the expression of genes associated with stem cell features, cell proliferation, the cell cycle, and DNA damage repair. A reduction in WDR82-mediated H3K4me3 increases the response of pediatric glioma cells to chemotherapy. These findings suggest that WDR82-mediated H3K4me3 is an important determinant of pediatric glioma malignancy and therapeutic response. This highlights the need for a more thorough understanding of the potential of WDR82 as an epigenetic target to increase therapeutic efficacy and improve the prognosis for children with malignant gliomas.

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childrenDNA damage repairepigeneticshigh-grade gliomaproliferationWDR82

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PMID37444539
PMCPMC10340597
OpenAlexW4382941171

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