Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

SETD1A protects from senescence through regulation of the mitotic gene expression program

  • Ken Tajima,
  • Satoru Matsuda,
  • Toshifumi Yae,
  • Benjamin J. Drapkin,
  • Robert Morris,
  • Myriam Boukhali,
  • Kira Niederhoffer,
  • Valentine Comaills,
  • Taronish Dubash,
  • Linda Nieman,
  • Hongshan Guo,
  • Neelima K. C. Magnus,
  • Nick Dyson,
  • Toshihiro Shioda,
  • Wilhelm Haas,
  • Daniel A. Haber,
  • Shyamala Maheswaran

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10786-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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SETD1A, a histone H3K4 methyltransferase that promotes gene expression, is required for embryonic development. Here, the authors show that SETD1A regulates the expression of mitotic genes and that SETD1A suppression induces senescence.