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Induction and Analysis of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition
Published on: August 27, 2013
EED regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition of cancer cells induced by TGF-β
Dulamsuren Oktyabri1, Shoichiro Tange1, Minoru Terashima1
1Division of Functional Genomics, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Ishikawa, Japan.
Abstract:
Histone methylation is involved in various biological and pathological processes including cancer development. In this study, we found that EED, a component of Polycomb repressive complex-2 (PRC2) that catalyzes methylation of lysine 27 of histone H3 (H3K27), was involved in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of cancer cells induced by Transforming Growth Factor-beta (TGF-β). The expression of EED was increased during TGF-β-induced EMT and knockdown of EED inhibited TGF-β-induced morphological conversion of the cells associated with EMT. EED knockdown antagonized TGF-β-dependent expression changes of EMT-related genes such as CDH1, ZEB1, ZEB2 and microRNA-200 (miR-200) family. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assays showed that EED was implicated in TGF-β-induced transcriptional repression of CDH1 and miR-200 family genes through the regulation of histone H3 methylation and EZH2 occupancies on their regulatory regions. Our study demonstrated a novel role of EED, which regulates PRC2 activity and histone methylation during TGF-β-induced EMT of cancer cells.
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