Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Histone variant H3F3A promotes lung cancer cell migration through intronic regulation

  • Seong-Min Park,
  • Eun-Young Choi,
  • Mingyun Bae,
  • Sunshin Kim,
  • Jong Bae Park,
  • Heon Yoo,
  • Jung Kyoon Choi,
  • Youn-Jae Kim,
  • Seung-Hoon Lee,
  • In-Hoo Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12914
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Histone variants act as transcriptional activators and repressors and have been linked to cancer progression. Park and Choi et al. show that the histone H3.3 overexpression is associated with early-stage lung cancer, and promotes cancer cell migration by upregulating a G-protein-coupled receptor.