La histona vinculadora H1.0 genera heterogeneidad epigenética y funcional dentro del tumor

Cristina Morales Torres1, Alva Biran2, Matthew J Burney1

  • 1Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London WC2A 3LY, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 7, 2016
PubMed
Resumen

Los estados epigenéticos dinámicos, marcados por la histona de enlace H1.0, dictan el crecimiento del cáncer a largo plazo. Los niveles de H1.0 se correlacionan con las características del tumor y los marcadores de células madre del cáncer, revelando los reguladores epigenéticos clave de las células que mantienen el tumor.

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