Nature Communications (May 2018)

Tumour-associated missense mutations in the dMi-2 ATPase alters nucleosome remodelling properties in a mutation-specific manner

  • Kristina Kovač,
  • Anja Sauer,
  • Igor Mačinković,
  • Stephan Awe,
  • Florian Finkernagel,
  • Helen Hoffmeister,
  • Andreas Fuchs,
  • Rolf Müller,
  • Christina Rathke,
  • Gernot Längst,
  • Alexander Brehm

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04503-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers are often found mutated in human cancers. Here, the authors characterize the nucleosome remodelling properties of cancer-associated mutants of the Drosophila Chd4 homolog dMi-2.