Wednesday, 24 October 2018

PRC1 and PRC2

Cited from the paper "A distal intergenic region controls pancreatic endocrine differentiation by acting as a transcriptional enhancer and as a polycomb response element"

PcG-dependent repression is mediated by two major complexes known as PRC1 and PRC2 that act in an interdependent manner. PRC2 contains Ezh2 and Ezh1 in its non-canonical form, both of which catalyzes the trimethylation of Lysine 27 on histone 3 (H3K27me3). This histone mark contributes to the recruitment of the PRC1 complex, which promotes H2A ubiquitylation, interference with transcriptional machinery, and chromatin compaction [48].

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