Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

A local tumor microenvironment acquired super-enhancer induces an oncogenic driver in colorectal carcinoma

  • Royce W. Zhou,
  • Jia Xu,
  • Tiphaine C. Martin,
  • Alexis L. Zachem,
  • John He,
  • Sait Ozturk,
  • Deniz Demircioglu,
  • Ankita Bansal,
  • Andrew P. Trotta,
  • Bruno Giotti,
  • Berkley Gryder,
  • Yao Shen,
  • Xuewei Wu,
  • Saul Carcamo,
  • Kaitlyn Bosch,
  • Benjamin Hopkins,
  • Alexander Tsankov,
  • Randolph Steinhagen,
  • Drew R. Jones,
  • John Asara,
  • Jerry E. Chipuk,
  • Rachel Brody,
  • Steven Itzkowitz,
  • Iok In Christine Chio,
  • Dan Hasson,
  • Emily Bernstein,
  • Ramon E. Parsons

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33377-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The changes in super-enhancer (SE) landscape of cancers are mainly attributed to cell-intrinsic genomic alterations. Here, the authors perform epigenomic profiling on primary colorectal cancers (CRCs) and their matched normal tissues and show that local tumour microenvironment induces a SE activation and that its target, PDZK1IP1 promotes CRC growth.