PFA ependymoma-associated protein EZHIP inhibits PRC2 activity through a H3 K27M-like mechanism

oleh: Siddhant U. Jain, Truman J. Do, Peder J. Lund, Andrew Q. Rashoff, Katharine L. Diehl, Marcin Cieslik, Andrea Bajic, Nikoleta Juretic, Shriya Deshmukh, Sriram Venneti, Tom W. Muir, Benjamin A. Garcia, Nada Jabado, Peter W. Lewis

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-05-01

Deskripsi

PFA tumours express high levels of EZHIP (also known as CXORF67). Here the authors find that EZHIP directly interacts with the active site of EZH2 and is a competitive inhibitor of PRC2 and that EZHIP gives rise to H3K27me3 genomic profile similar to the K27M oncohistone.