Several media, including Quo Magazine, have echoed the research headed by Ferran Azorín, CSIC research professor and group leader of the Chromatin Structure and Function laboratory at IRB Barcelona. The study reveals why histone 1 is a major protection factor against genomic instability and a vital protein for the organism.
Published in Nature Communications, this work explains for the first time that the suppression of histone 1 causes cell damage and genomic instability (DNA damage).
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This research will help to identify those genes that play a key role in the initiation of metastasis
Metastasis causes 90% of cancer related deaths
The web Hidden Nature has published an article about the 10 investigations that they considered to be the most important ones published in 2018. One of them refers to epigenetic therapies and mentions research research that supports and rejects them. In this regard, they mention the study led by Salvador Aznar Benitah at IRB Barcelona and published in Nature Cell Biology. The study in question concludes that care must be taken with drugs that inhibit epigenetic factors as they could cause the appearance of aggressive tumours.
The journal Biocentury Innovations has published an article on the study led by IRB Barcelona researchers Salvador Aznar Benitah and Fran Supek and first-authored by postdoctoral researcher Alexandra Avgustinova. The study has shown that increasing chromatin accessibility in cancer promotes tumour aggressiveness and does not reduce tumour mutation burden, as previously believed. The article refers to one of the main conclusions of the study, namely the need to evaluate the long-term effects of chromatin modifiers in tumour models before taking them into the clinic.
