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ArticleNature communications2025

H3K36 Methylation as a Guardian of Epigenome Integrity.

Reinnier Padilla, Gerry A Shipman, Cynthia Horth, Michel Gravel, Eric Bareke, Jacek Majewski

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Reinnier Padilla *Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-5646-5450
Gerry A Shipman *Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0385-6061
Cynthia HorthDepartment of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2441-6783
Michel GravelDepartment of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Eric BarekeDepartment of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3928-7160
Jacek MajewskiDepartment of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. jacek.majewski@mcgill.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3572-9558

Funding

Shared Resources Core 2: Quantitative Proteomics CoreP01CA196539 · NCI · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI YOUNG, MICHAEL WARREN · 2015 to 2024
$17.6M
Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada) PJT-183939NCI NIH HHS P01 CA196539U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | NCI | Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute (National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics) P01-CA196539
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

H3K36 methylation is a key epigenetic mark with critical roles in development and disease. Here, we systematically dissect its functions using CRISPR-engineered mouse mesenchymal stem cells lacking combinations of the five H3K36 methyltransferases, culminating in quintuple knockout cells devoid of H3K36me2/3. We show that H3K36me2 influences enhancer activity, supports the expression of their target genes, and safeguards active genes from encroachment of the repressive marks, H3K27me2/3. In addition, we find that the loss of H3K36me triggers redistribution of large heterochromatic H3K9me3 domains into euchromatin, in part mediated by SUV39H1, leading to global epigenomic remodelling, constitutive heterochromatin erosion, and a collapse of 3D genome organization. Parallel analyses in human HNSCC cells overexpressing the H3K36M oncohistone reveal conserved disruptions to the epigenome and chromatin architecture. Together, these results establish H3K36 methylation as a pivotal regulator of chromatin state and genomic structure.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticEpigenomeHistonesAnimalsCell Line, TumorChromatinCRISPR-Cas SystemsEuchromatinHeterochromatinHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseHumansMesenchymal Stem CellsMethylationMethyltransferasesMiceMice, KnockoutChromatinEuchromatinHeterochromatinHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseHistonesMethyltransferasesRepressor ProteinsSUV39H1 protein, humanSuv39h1 protein, mouse

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PMID41381501
PMCPMC12727757

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