• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: A neurodevelopmental epigenetic programme mediated by SMARCD3–DAB1–Reelin signalling is hijacked to promote medulloblastoma metastasis
  • Beteiligte: Zou, Han; Poore, Bradley; Brown, Emily E.; Qian, Jieqi; Xie, Bin; Asimakidou, Evridiki; Razskazovskiy, Vladislav; Ayrapetian, Deanna; Sharma, Vaibhav; Xia, Shunjin; Liu, Fei; Chen, Apeng; Guan, Yongchang; Li, Zhengwei; Wanggou, Siyi; Saulnier, Olivier; Ly, Michelle; Fellows-Mayle, Wendy; Xi, Guifa; Tomita, Tadanori; Resnick, Adam C.; Mack, Stephen C.; Raabe, Eric H.; Eberhart, Charles G.; [...]
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023
  • Erschienen in: Nature Cell Biology
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41556-023-01093-0
  • ISSN: 1465-7392; 1476-4679
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>How abnormal neurodevelopment relates to the tumour aggressiveness of medulloblastoma (MB), the most common type of embryonal tumour, remains elusive. Here we uncover a neurodevelopmental epigenomic programme that is hijacked to induce MB metastatic dissemination. Unsupervised analyses of integrated publicly available datasets with our newly generated data reveal that SMARCD3 (also known as BAF60C) regulates Disabled 1 (DAB1)-mediated Reelin signalling in Purkinje cell migration and MB metastasis by orchestrating <jats:italic>cis</jats:italic>-regulatory elements at the <jats:italic>DAB1</jats:italic> locus. We further identify that a core set of transcription factors, enhancer of zeste homologue 2 (EZH2) and nuclear factor I X (NFIX), coordinates with the <jats:italic>cis</jats:italic>-regulatory elements at the <jats:italic>SMARCD3</jats:italic> locus to form a chromatin hub to control SMARCD3 expression in the developing cerebellum and in metastatic MB. Increased SMARCD3 expression activates Reelin–DAB1-mediated Src kinase signalling, which results in a MB response to Src inhibition. These data deepen our understanding of how neurodevelopmental programming influences disease progression and provide a potential therapeutic option for patients with MB.</jats:p>