Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Pivotal role for S-nitrosylation of DNA methyltransferase 3B in epigenetic regulation of tumorigenesis

  • Kosaku Okuda,
  • Kengo Nakahara,
  • Akihiro Ito,
  • Yuta Iijima,
  • Ryosuke Nomura,
  • Ashutosh Kumar,
  • Kana Fujikawa,
  • Kazuya Adachi,
  • Yuki Shimada,
  • Satoshi Fujio,
  • Reina Yamamoto,
  • Nobumasa Takasugi,
  • Kunishige Onuma,
  • Mitsuhiko Osaki,
  • Futoshi Okada,
  • Taichi Ukegawa,
  • Yasuo Takeuchi,
  • Norihisa Yasui,
  • Atsuko Yamashita,
  • Hiroyuki Marusawa,
  • Yosuke Matsushita,
  • Toyomasa Katagiri,
  • Takahiro Shibata,
  • Koji Uchida,
  • Sheng-Yong Niu,
  • Nhi B. Lang,
  • Tomohiro Nakamura,
  • Kam Y. J. Zhang,
  • Stuart A. Lipton,
  • Takashi Uehara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36232-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Here the authors demonstrate that de novo DNA methylation mediated by DNMT3B is regulated by nitric oxide (NO). They also isolate a unique modulator (DBIC) that inhibits S-nitrosylation of DNMT3B, which mitigates cell proliferation and tumorigenic conversion in vivo.