Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

EZHIP constrains Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 activity in germ cells

  • Roberta Ragazzini,
  • Raquel Pérez-Palacios,
  • Irem H. Baymaz,
  • Seynabou Diop,
  • Katia Ancelin,
  • Dina Zielinski,
  • Audrey Michaud,
  • Maëlle Givelet,
  • Mate Borsos,
  • Setareh Aflaki,
  • Patricia Legoix,
  • Pascal W. T. C. Jansen,
  • Nicolas Servant,
  • Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla,
  • Deborah Bourc’his,
  • Pierre Fouchet,
  • Michiel Vermeulen,
  • Raphaël Margueron

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11800-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) plays critical roles in transcriptional silencing during development. Here the authors identify EZHIP as a cofactor of PRC2 expressed predominantly in the gonads, finding that EZHIP limits the enzymatic activity of PRC2 in germ cells in mice.