Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

H3 ubiquitination by NEDD4 regulates H3 acetylation and tumorigenesis

  • Xian Zhang,
  • Binkui Li,
  • Abdol Hossein Rezaeian,
  • Xiaohong Xu,
  • Ping-Chieh Chou,
  • Guoxiang Jin,
  • Fei Han,
  • Bo-Syong Pan,
  • Chi-Yun Wang,
  • Jie Long,
  • Anmei Zhang,
  • Chih-Yang Huang,
  • Fuu-Jen Tsai,
  • Chang-Hai Tsai,
  • Christopher Logothetis,
  • Hui-Kuan Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14799
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Histone modifications play important roles in gene transcription and cancer. Here the authors establish a role for the E3 ubiquitin ligase NEDD4 in modifying in a glucose-dependent manner the histone H3, thus regulating the expression of genes involved in tumorigenesis.