Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

CK2-mediated phosphorylation of SUZ12 promotes PRC2 function by stabilizing enzyme active site

  • Lihu Gong,
  • Xiuli Liu,
  • Lianying Jiao,
  • Xin Yang,
  • Andrew Lemoff,
  • Xin Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34431-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Here the authors identify SUZ12 as a cellular substate of casein kinase 2 (CK2), and show this phosphorylation changes the active site structure of Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) and promotes PRC2 function in cell identity maintenance during stem cell differentiation.