Nature Communications (May 2017)

PTEN regulates glioblastoma oncogenesis through chromatin-associated complexes of DAXX and histone H3.3

  • Jorge A. Benitez,
  • Jianhui Ma,
  • Matteo D’Antonio,
  • Antonia Boyer,
  • Maria Fernanda Camargo,
  • Ciro Zanca,
  • Stephen Kelly,
  • Alireza Khodadadi-Jamayran,
  • Nathan M. Jameson,
  • Michael Andersen,
  • Hrvoje Miletic,
  • Shahram Saberi,
  • Kelly A. Frazer,
  • Webster K. Cavenee,
  • Frank B. Furnari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15223
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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PTEN mutations are frequent in glioblastoma and often are associated with therapeutic resistance. Here, the authors demonstrate that PTEN regulates gene expression at the chromatin level by interacting with the histone chaperone DAXX and H3.3, and that DAXX inhibition inhibits PTEN-deficient GBM growth in vivo.