Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Enhancer hijacking activates oncogenic transcription factor NR4A3 in acinic cell carcinomas of the salivary glands

  • Florian Haller,
  • Matthias Bieg,
  • Rainer Will,
  • Cindy Körner,
  • Dieter Weichenhan,
  • Alexander Bott,
  • Naveed Ishaque,
  • Pavlo Lutsik,
  • Evgeny A. Moskalev,
  • Sarina K. Mueller,
  • Marion Bähr,
  • Angelika Woerner,
  • Birgit Kaiser,
  • Claudia Scherl,
  • Marlen Haderlein,
  • Kortine Kleinheinz,
  • Rainer Fietkau,
  • Heinrich Iro,
  • Roland Eils,
  • Arndt Hartmann,
  • Christoph Plass,
  • Stefan Wiemann,
  • Abbas Agaimy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08069-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Acinic cell carcinoma (AciCC) is a rare salivary gland carcinoma that is poorly understood. Here the authors perform genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling of AciCC and find highly recurrent and specific rearrangements [t(4;9)(q13;q31)], which lead to enhancer hijacking that activates oncogenic transcription factor NR4A3.