The central role of EED in the orchestration of polycomb group complexes

Qi Cao; Xiaoju Wang; Meng Zhao; Rendong Yang; Rohit Malik; Yuanyuan Qiao; Anton Poliakov; Anastasia K. Yocum; Yong Li; Wei Chen; Xuhong Cao; Xia Jiang; Arun Dahiya; Clair Harris; Felix Y. Feng; Sundeep Kalantry; Zhaohui S. Qin; Saravana M. Dhanasekaran; Arul M. Chinnaiyan

doi:10.1038/ncomms4127

The central role of EED in the orchestration of polycomb group complexes

Qi Cao, Xiaoju Wang, Meng Zhao, Rendong Yang, Rohit Malik, Yuanyuan Qiao, Anton Poliakov, Anastasia K. Yocum, Yong Li, Wei Chen, Xuhong Cao, Xia Jiang, Arun Dahiya, Clair Harris, Felix Y. Feng, Sundeep Kalantry, Zhaohui S. Qin, Saravana M. Dhanasekaran, Arul M. Chinnaiyan

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Abstract

Polycomb repressive complexes 1 and 2 (PRC1 and 2) play a critical role in the epigenetic regulation of transcription during cellular differentiation, stem cell pluripotency and neoplastic progression. Here we show that the polycomb group protein EED, a core component of PRC2, physically interacts with and functions as part of PRC1. Components of PRC1 and PRC2 compete for EED binding. EED functions to recruit PRC1 to H3K27me3 loci and enhances PRC1-mediated H2A ubiquitin E3 ligase activity. Taken together, we suggest an integral role for EED as an epigenetic exchange factor coordinating the activities of PRC1 and 2.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	3127
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4127
State	Published - Jan 24 2014

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Cao, Q., Wang, X., Zhao, M., Yang, R., Malik, R., Qiao, Y., Poliakov, A., Yocum, A. K., Li, Y., Chen, W., Cao, X., Jiang, X., Dahiya, A., Harris, C., Feng, F. Y., Kalantry, S., Qin, Z. S., Dhanasekaran, S. M., & Chinnaiyan, A. M. (2014). The central role of EED in the orchestration of polycomb group complexes. Nature Communications, 5, [3127]. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4127

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