Schlagwort: HIV
Wie Retroviren ansteckend werden
Um Viren besser bekämpfen zu können, ist es wichtig, jeden Schritt in ihrem Lebenszyklus zu verstehen. Wissenschafter am Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria konnten nun zeigen, wie ein Virus aus der Familie der Retroviren, zu der auch das HI-Virus gehört, seine genetische Information schützt und infektiös wird. Außerdem zeigen sie, dass das Virus deutlich flexibler ist als gedacht. Ihre Studie ist soeben im Magazin Nature Communications erschienen.
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A global assessment of cancer genomic alterations in epigenetic mechanisms
Muhammad A Shah, Emily L Denton, Cheryl H Arrowsmith, Mathieu Lupien and Matthieu Schapira
Abstract
Background
The notion that epigenetic mechanisms may be central to cancer initiation and progression is supported by recent next-generation sequencing efforts revealing that genes involved in chromatin-mediated signaling are recurrently mutated in cancer patients.
Results
Here, we analyze mutational and transcriptional profiles from TCGA and the ICGC across a collection 441 chromatin factors and histones. Chromatin factors essential for rapid replication are frequently overexpressed, and those that maintain genome stability frequently mutated. We identify novel mutation hotspots such as K36M in histone H3.1, and uncover a general trend in which transcriptional profiles and somatic mutations in tumor samples favor increased transcriptionally repressive histone methylation, and defective chromatin remodeling.
Conclusions
This unbiased approach confirms previously published data, uncovers novel cancer-associated aberrations targeting epigenetic mechanisms, and justifies continued monitoring of chromatin-related alterations as a class, as more cancer types and distinct cancer stages are represented in cancer genomics data repositories.
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