Bivalent chromatin: a developmental balancing act tipped in cancer

E Glancy, N Choy… - Biochemical Society …, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Bivalent chromatin is defined by the co-occurrence of otherwise opposing H3K4me3 and
H3K27me3 modifications and is typically located at unmethylated promoters of lowly …

[HTML][HTML] Polycomb repressive complex 2 accessory factors: rheostats for cell fate decision?

H Bharti, S Han, HW Chang, D Reinberg - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Various partner proteins associate sub-stoichiometrically, impacting PRC2
activities.•Distinctive PRC2 subcomplexes form in tissue-specific and spatiotemporal …

[HTML][HTML] The apparent loss of PRC2 chromatin occupancy as an artifact of RNA depletion

E Healy, Q Zhang, EH Gail, SC Agius, G Sun, M Bullen… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
RNA has been implicated in the recruitment of chromatin modifiers, and previous studies
have provided evidence in favor and against this idea. RNase treatment of chromatin is …

H2AK119ub1 differentially fine-tunes gene expression by modulating canonical PRC1-and H1-dependent chromatin compaction

J Zhao, J Lan, M Wang, C Liu, Z Fang, A Song, T Zhang… - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) is a key transcriptional regulator in
development via modulating chromatin structure and catalyzing histone H2A ubiquitination …

Inseparable RNA binding and chromatin modification activities of a nucleosome-interacting surface in EZH2

EH Gail, E Healy, SF Flanigan, N Jones, XH Ng… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) interacts with RNA in cells, but there is no
consensus on how RNA regulates PRC2 canonical functions, including chromatin …

Polycomb-mediated histone modifications and gene regulation

S Ito, T Umehara, H Koseki - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Polycomb repressive complexes 1 and 2 (PRC1 and PRC2) are transcriptional repressor
complexes that play a fundamental role in epigenomic regulation and the cell-fate decision; …

Polycomb function in early mouse development

L Condemi, I Mocavini, S Aranda… - Cell Death & …, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenetic factors are crucial for ensuring proper chromatin dynamics during the initial
stages of embryo development. Among these factors, the Polycomb group (PcG) of proteins …

ANGPTL2‐mediated epigenetic repression of MHC‐I in tumor cells accelerates tumor immune evasion

T Kadomatsu, C Hara, R Kurahashi… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Loss or downregulation of major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC‐I) contributes to
tumor immune evasion. We previously demonstrated that angiopoietin‐like protein 2 …

A low-input high resolution sequential chromatin immunoprecipitation method captures genome-wide dynamics of bivalent chromatin

JA Seneviratne, WWH Ho, E Glancy… - Epigenetics & …, 2024 - Springer
Background Bivalent chromatin is an exemplar of epigenetic plasticity. This co-occurrence of
active-associated H3K4me3 and inactive-associated H3K27me3 histone modifications on …

Crosstalk within and beyond the Polycomb repressive system

TH Shi, H Sugishita, Y Gotoh - Journal of Cell Biology, 2024 - rupress.org
The development of multicellular organisms depends on spatiotemporally controlled
differentiation of numerous cell types and their maintenance. To generate such diversity …