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Potential Diagnostic Value of the Differential Expression of Histone H3 Variants between Low- and High-Grade Gliomas.

Cancers (2021-11-14)
Irati Hervás-Corpión, Andrea Gallardo-Orihuela, Inmaculada Catalina-Fernández, Irene Iglesias-Lozano, Olga Soto-Torres, Noelia Geribaldi-Doldán, Samuel Domínguez-García, Nuria Luna-García, Raquel Romero-García, Francisco Mora-López, Marianela Iriarte-Gahete, Jorge C Morales, Antonio Campos-Caro, Carmen Castro, José L Gil-Salú, Luis M Valor
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Glioblastoma (GB) is the most aggressive form of glioma and is characterized by poor prognosis and high recurrence despite intensive clinical interventions. To retrieve the key factors underlying the high malignancy of GB with potential diagnosis utility, we combined the analysis of The Cancer Gene Atlas and the REMBRANDT datasets plus a molecular examination of our own collection of surgical tumor resections. We determined a net reduction in the levels of the non-canonical histone H3 variant H3.3 in GB compared to lower-grade astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas with a concomitant increase in the levels of the canonical histone H3 variants H3.1/H3.2. This increase can be potentially useful in the clinical diagnosis of high-grade gliomas, as evidenced by an immunohistochemistry screening of our cohort and can be at least partially explained by the induction of multiple histone genes encoding these canonical forms. Moreover, GBs showing low bulk levels of the H3.1/H3.2 proteins were more transcriptionally similar to low-grade gliomas than GBs showing high levels of H3.1/H3.2. In conclusion, this study identifies an imbalanced ratio between the H3 variants associated with glioma malignancy and molecular patterns relevant to the biology of gliomas, and proposes the examination of the H3.3 and H3.1/H3.2 levels to further refine diagnosis of low- and high-grade gliomas in future studies.

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