EZH2 supports nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell aggressiveness by forming a co-repressor complex with HDAC1/HDAC2 and Snail to inhibit E-cadherin.

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8711562 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1476-5594 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09509232 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Oncogene Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: <2002->: Basingstoke : Nature Publishing Group
Original Publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK : Scientific & Medical Division, MacMillan Press, c1987-

Cadherins/*genetics ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Histone Deacetylase 1/*metabolism ; Histone Deacetylase 2/*metabolism ; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms/*metabolism ; Transcription Factors/*metabolism; Adult ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line, Tumor ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics ; Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 Protein ; Female ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Histone Deacetylase 1/genetics ; Histone Deacetylase 2/genetics ; Humans ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Mice, Nude ; Middle Aged ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Multiprotein Complexes/metabolism ; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms/genetics ; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms/pathology ; Neoplasm Invasiveness ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 ; Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics ; Protein Binding ; RNA Interference ; Repressor Proteins/metabolism ; Snail Family Transcription Factors ; Transcription Factors/genetics

The enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) is upregulated and has an oncogenic role in several types of human cancer. However, the abnormalities of EZH2 and its underlying mechanisms in the pathogenesis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) remain unknown. In this study, we found that high expression of EZH2 in NPC was associated closely with an aggressive and/or poor prognostic phenotype (P<0.05). In NPC cell lines, knockdown of EZH2 by short hairpin RNA was sufficient to inhibit cell invasiveness/metastasis both in vitro and in vivo, whereas ectopic overexpression of EZH2 supported NPC cell invasive capacity with a decreased expression of E-cadherin. In addition, ablation of endogenous Snail in NPC cells virtually totally prevented the repressive activity of EZH2 to E-cadherin, indicating that Snail might be a predominant mediator of EZH2 to suppress E-cadherin. Furthermore, co-immunoprecipitation (IP), chromatin IP and luciferase reporter assays demonstrated that in NPC cells, (1) EZH2 interacted with HDAC1/HDAC2 and Snail to form a repressive complex; (2) these components interact in a linear fashion, not in a triangular fashion, that is, HDAC1 or HDAC2 bridge the interaction between EZH2 and Snail; and (3) the EZH2/HDAC1/2/Snail complex could closely bind to the E-cadherin promoter by Snail, but not YY1, to repress E-cadherin. The data provided in this report suggest a critical role of EZH2 in the control of cell invasion and/or metastasis by forming a co-repressor complex with HDAC1/HDAC2/Snail to repress E-cadherin, an activity that might be responsible, at least in part, for the development and/or progression of human NPCs.

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0 (DNA-Binding Proteins)
0 (Multiprotein Complexes)
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0 (Snail Family Transcription Factors)
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EC 2.1.1.43 (EZH2 protein, human)
EC 2.1.1.43 (Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 Protein)
EC 2.1.1.43 (Polycomb Repressive Complex 2)
EC 3.5.1.98 (HDAC1 protein, human)
EC 3.5.1.98 (HDAC2 protein, human)
EC 3.5.1.98 (Histone Deacetylase 1)
EC 3.5.1.98 (Histone Deacetylase 2)

Date Created: 20110621 Date Completed: 20120327 Latest Revision: 20220330

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10.1038/onc.2011.254

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