Eun Kyung Ko, Amy Anderson, Carina D'souza, Jonathan Zou, Sijia Huang, Sohyun Cho, Faizan Alawi, Stephen Prouty, Vivian Lee, Sora Yoon, Keegan Krick, Yoko Horiuchi, Kai Ge, John T Seykora, Brian C Capell
Chromatin organization is essential for maintaining cell-fate trajectories and developmental programs. Here, we find that disruption of H3K36 methylation dramatically impairs normal epithelial differentiation and development, which promotes increased cellular plasticity and enrichment of alternative cell fates. Specifically, we observe a striking increase in the aberrant generation of excessive epithelial glandular tissues, including hypertrophic salivary, sebaceous, and meibomian glands, as well as enhanced squamous tumorigenesis...
December 27, 2023: Developmental Cell