Targeting bivalency de-represses Indian Hedgehog and inhibits self-renewal of colorectal cancer-initiating cells

The presence of bivalent epigenetic active and repressive histone marks control lineage-specific differentiation in embryonic stem cells. Here, the authors reveal that bivalent marks repress the differentiation gene IHH in colorectal cancer-initiating cells, and can be targeted by EZH2 inhibition

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Evelyne Lima-Fernandes, Alex Murison, Tiago da Silva Medina, Yadong Wang, Anqi Ma, Cherry Leung, Genna M. Luciani, Jennifer Haynes, Aaron Pollett, Constanze Zeller, Shili Duan, Antonija Kreso, Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy, Bradly G. Wouters, Jian Jin, Daniel D. De Carvalho, Mathieu Lupien, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith, Catherine A. O’Brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09309-4