CARM1-expressing ovarian cancer depends on the histone methyltransferase EZH2 activity

oleh: Sergey Karakashev, Hengrui Zhu, Shuai Wu, Yuhki Yokoyama, Benjamin G. Bitler, Pyoung-Hwa Park, Jeong-Heon Lee, Andrew V. Kossenkov, Krutika Satish Gaonkar, Huihuang Yan, Ronny Drapkin, Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, David W. Speicher, Tamas Ordog, Rugang Zhang

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-02-01

Deskripsi

CARM1 is an arginine methyltransferase often overexpressed in human cancer. Here, the authors show that EZH2 inhibition suppresses growth in CARM1-expressing epithelial ovarian cancer, and examine the mechanism of how CARM1 promotes EZH2-mediated tumor suppressor gene silencing.