Nature Communications (Jun 2019)
H3.3K27M-induced chromatin changes drive ectopic replication through misregulation of the JNK pathway in C. elegans
Abstract
Substitution of lysine 27 with methionine in histone H3.3 (H3.3K27M) is a driver mutation of pediatric high-grade gliomas. Here the authors show that H3.3K27M-mediated alterations in H3K27me3 distribution result in ectopic DNA replication and cell cycle progression of germ cells in Caenorhabditis elegans, through JNK pathway misregulation.