Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Protein lysine 43 methylation by EZH1 promotes AML1-ETO transcriptional repression in leukemia

  • Liping Dou,
  • Fei Yan,
  • Jiuxia Pang,
  • Dehua Zheng,
  • Dandan Li,
  • Li Gao,
  • Lijun Wang,
  • Yihan Xu,
  • Jinlong Shi,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Lei Zhou,
  • Na Shen,
  • Puja Singh,
  • Lili Wang,
  • Yonghui Li,
  • Yvchi Gao,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Chongjian Chen,
  • Aref Al-Kali,
  • Mark R. Litzow,
  • Young-In Chi,
  • Ann M. Bode,
  • Chunhui Liu,
  • Haojie Huang,
  • Daihong Liu,
  • Guido Marcucci,
  • Shujun Liu,
  • Li Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12960-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The oncogenic fusion protein AML1-ETO has the ability of AML1 to interact with DNA but blocks AML1-dependent transcription. Here the authors report that histone lysine methyltransferase EZH1 interacts with AML1-ETO and methylates AML1-ETO at lysine 43, promoting AML1-ETO transcriptional repression in leukemia.