Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

An ErbB2/c-Src axis links bioenergetics with PRC2 translation to drive epigenetic reprogramming and mammary tumorigenesis

  • Harvey W. Smith,
  • Alison Hirukawa,
  • Virginie Sanguin-Gendreau,
  • Ipshita Nandi,
  • Catherine R. Dufour,
  • Dongmei Zuo,
  • Kristofferson Tandoc,
  • Matthew Leibovitch,
  • Salendra Singh,
  • Jonathan P. Rennhack,
  • Matthew Swiatnicki,
  • Cynthia Lavoie,
  • Vasilios Papavasiliou,
  • Carolin Temps,
  • Neil O. Carragher,
  • Asier Unciti-Broceta,
  • Paul Savage,
  • Mark Basik,
  • Vincent van Hoef,
  • Ola Larsson,
  • Caroline L. Cooper,
  • Ana Cristina Vargas Calderon,
  • Jane Beith,
  • Ewan Millar,
  • Christina Selinger,
  • Vincent Giguère,
  • Morag Park,
  • Lyndsay N. Harris,
  • Vinay Varadan,
  • Eran R. Andrechek,
  • Sandra A. O’Toole,
  • Ivan Topisirovic,
  • William J. Muller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10681-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Polycomb Repressor Complex 2 (PRC2) is frequently up-regulated in cancers. Here, the authors show that the tyrosine kinase c-Src stimulates mitochondrial function to signal energy sufficiency to mTORC1, increasing translation of the PRC2 subunits EZH2 and SUZ12 to support ErbB2-dependent tumours.