Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

YEATS2 links histone acetylation to tumorigenesis of non-small cell lung cancer

  • Wenyi Mi,
  • Haipeng Guan,
  • Jie Lyu,
  • Dan Zhao,
  • Yuanxin Xi,
  • Shiming Jiang,
  • Forest H. Andrews,
  • Xiaolu Wang,
  • Mihai Gagea,
  • Hong Wen,
  • Laszlo Tora,
  • Sharon Y. R. Dent,
  • Tatiana G. Kutateladze,
  • Wei Li,
  • Haitao Li,
  • Xiaobing Shi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01173-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Histone modification recognition is an important mechanism for gene expression regulation in cancer. Here, the authors identify YEATS2 as a histone H3K27ac reader, regulating a transcriptional program essential for tumorigenesis in human non-small cell lung cancer.