EZH2 interacts with HP1BP3 to epigenetically activate WNT7B that promotes temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma

T Yu, F Zhou, W Tian, R Xu, B Wang, A Zeng, Z Zhou… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most lethal primary brain tumor in adults and harbors a
subpopulation of glioma stem cells (GSCs). Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (EZH2), a histone …

EZH2 has a non-catalytic and PRC2-independent role in stabilizing DDB2 to promote nucleotide excision repair

AE Koyen, MZ Madden, D Park, EV Minten… - Oncogene, 2020 - nature.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly aggressive malignancy with poor outcomes
associated with resistance to cisplatin-based chemotherapy. Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 …

Polycomb directed cell fate decisions in development and cancer

B German, L Ellis - Epigenomes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The polycomb group (PcG) proteins are a subset of transcription regulators highly conserved
throughout evolution. Their principal role is to epigenetically modify chromatin landscapes …

Noncanonical functions of the polycomb group protein EZH2 in breast cancer

T Anwar, ME Gonzalez, CG Kleer - The American Journal of Pathology, 2021 - Elsevier
Enhancer of Zeste Homologue 2 (EZH2) is the catalytic subunit of the polycomb repressive
complex 2 (PRC2) that is critical for determining cell identity. An epigenetic writer, EZH2 has …

Lysine methylation signaling of non-histone proteins in the nucleus

D Levy - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Lysine methylation, catalyzed by protein lysine methyltransferases (PKMTs), is a central post-
translational modification regulating many signaling pathways. It has direct and indirect …

The molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential of EZH2 in breast cancer

S Adibfar, M Elveny, HS Kashikova, MV Mikhailova… - Life sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to its high occurrence and mortality rate, breast cancer has been studied from various
aspects as one of the cancer field's hot topics in the last decade. Epigenetic alterations are …

Polycomb repressive complex 2 methylates elongin A to regulate transcription

MB Ardehali, A Anselmo, JC Cochrane, S Kundu… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2-EZH2) methylates histone H3 at lysine 27
(H3K27) and is required to maintain gene repression during development. Misregulation of …

EZH2 in bladder cancer, a promising therapeutic target

M Martínez-Fernández, C Rubio, C Segovia… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Bladder Cancer (BC) represents a current clinical and social challenge. The recent studies
aimed to describe the genomic landscape of BC have underscored the relevance of …

Prognostic value of polycomb proteins EZH2, BMI1 and SUZ12 and histone modification H3K27me3 in colorectal cancer

A Benard, IJ Goossens-Beumer, AQ van Hoesel… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Numerous changes in epigenetic mechanisms have been described in various types of
tumors. In search for new biomarkers, we investigated the expression of Polycomb-group …

Activation of AKT induces EZH2-mediated β-catenin trimethylation in colorectal cancer

AH Ghobashi, TT Vuong, JW Kimani, CA Ladaika… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) develops in part through the deregulation of different signaling
pathways, including activation of the WNT/β-catenin and PI3K/AKT pathways. Additionally …