ZFHX4 interacts with the NuRD core member CHD4 and regulates the glioblastoma tumor-initiating cell state. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Glioblastoma (GBM) harbors subpopulations of therapy-resistant tumor-initiating cells (TICs) that are self-renewing and multipotent. To understand the regulation of the TIC state, we performed an image-based screen for genes regulating GBM TIC maintenance and identified ZFHX4, a 397 kDa transcription factor. ZFHX4 is required to maintain TIC-associated and normal human neural precursor cell phenotypes in vitro, suggesting that ZFHX4 regulates differentiation, and its suppression increases glioma-free survival in intracranial xenografts. ZFHX4 interacts with CHD4, a core member of the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex. ZFHX4 and CHD4 bind to overlapping sets of genomic loci and control similar gene expression programs. Using expression data derived from GBM patients, we found that ZFHX4 significantly affects CHD4-mediated gene expression perturbations, which defines ZFHX4 as a master regulator of CHD4. These observations define ZFHX4 as a regulatory factor that links the chromatin-remodeling NuRD complex and the GBM TIC state.

publication date

  • January 16, 2014

Research

keywords

  • Autoantigens
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • Glioblastoma
  • Homeodomain Proteins
  • Mi-2 Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase Complex
  • Transcription Factors

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4041390

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84895903445

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.12.032

PubMed ID

  • 24440720

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 6

issue

  • 2