Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Tet2 loss leads to hypermutagenicity in haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells

  • Feng Pan,
  • Thomas S. Wingo,
  • Zhigang Zhao,
  • Rui Gao,
  • Hideki Makishima,
  • Guangbo Qu,
  • Li Lin,
  • Miao Yu,
  • Janice R. Ortega,
  • Jiapeng Wang,
  • Aziz Nazha,
  • Li Chen,
  • Bing Yao,
  • Can Liu,
  • Shi Chen,
  • Ophelia Weeks,
  • Hongyu Ni,
  • Brittany Lynn Phillips,
  • Suming Huang,
  • Jianlong Wang,
  • Chuan He,
  • Guo-Min Li,
  • Tomas Radivoyevitch,
  • Iannis Aifantis,
  • Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski,
  • Feng-Chun Yang,
  • Peng Jin,
  • Mingjiang Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15102
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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TET2 catalyses DNA demethylation and is mutated in various blood cancers; in particularTet2null mice develop haematological neoplasms. Here the authors show that this effect could be due to the increased frequency of mutation associated with TET2 loss in haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells.