Cited by 1,786Epigenetics and DNA MethylationCancer-related gene regulationLymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment

EZH2 inhibition as a therapeutic strategy for lymphoma with EZH2-activating mutations

McCabe, Michael T., Ott, Heidi M., Ganji, Gopinath, Korenchuk, Susan, Thompson, Christine, Van Aller, Glenn S., Liu, Yan, Graves, Alan P. +14 more·2012·Nature

Abstract

In eukaryotes, post-translational modification of histones is critical for regulation of chromatin structure and gene expression. EZH2 is the catalytic subunit of the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) and is involved in repressing gene expression through methylation of histone H3 on lysine 27 (H3K27). EZH2 overexpression is implicated in tumorigenesis and correlates with poor prognosis in several tumour types. Additionally, somatic heterozygous mutations of Y641 and A677 residues within the catalytic SET domain of EZH2 occur in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and follicular lymphoma. The Y641 residue is the most frequently mutated residue, with up to 22% of germinal centre B-cell DLBCL and follicular lymphoma harbouring mutations at this site. These lymphomas have increased H3K27 tri-methylation (H3K27me3) owing to altered substrate preferences of the mutant enzymes. However, it is unknown whether specific, direct inhibition of EZH2 methyltransferase activity will be effective in treating EZH2 mutant lymphomas. Here we demonstrate that GSK126, a potent, highly selective, S-adenosyl-methionine-competitive, small-molecule inhibitor of EZH2 methyltransferase activity, decreases global H3K27me3 levels and reactivates silenced PRC2 target genes. GSK126 effectively inhibits the proliferation of EZH2 mutant DLBCL cell lines and markedly inhibits the growth of EZH2 mutant DLBCL xenografts in mice. Together, these data demonstrate that pharmacological inhibition of EZH2 activity may provide a promising treatment for EZH2 mutant lymphoma.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/nature11606

Cites

31 of 31 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • PRMT5 has been implicated in driving neoplastic growth of multiple tumours including B cell lymphoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer and glioblastoma.

    “More recently, the arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 has been implicated in driving neoplastic growth of multiple tumours including B cell lymphoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer and glioblastoma 171-178 .”

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
McCabe, M. T., Ott, H. M., Ganji, G., Korenchuk, S., Thompson, C., Van Aller, G. S., Liu, Y., Graves, A. P., III, A. D. P., Diaz, E., LaFrance, L. V., Mellinger, M., Duquenne, C., Tian, X., Kruger, R. G., McHugh, C. F., Brandt, M., Miller, W. H., Dhanak, D., Verma, S. K., Tummino, P. J., & Creasy, C. L.
Affiliations
GlaxoSmithKline (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Creasy, Caretha L.
Venue
Nature
Published
2012-10-10
Volume
492
Issue
7427
Pages
108-112
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2004380688
Cited by
1,786
References
31
Citations by year
2026: 34 · 2025: 89 · 2024: 80 · 2023: 123 · 2022: 99 · 2021: 119 · 2020: 119 · 2019: 147 · 2018: 131 · 2017: 161 · 2016: 171 · 2015: 178 · 2014: 185 · 2013: 134 · 2012: 15
FWCI
66.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
GlaxoSmithKline
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
Keywords
EZH2 inhibition, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, polycomb repressive complex 2, H3K27 methylation, GSK126, histone methylation, xenograft tumor growth
MeSH terms
Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 Protein, Histone Methyltransferases, Animals, Histones, Humans, Indoles, Lymphoma, Follicular, Methylation, Mutation, Neoplasm Transplantation, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Pyridones, Repressor Proteins, Transplantation, Heterologous, Transcriptional Activation, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse, Gene Silencing, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Proliferation, Mice, Polycomb Repressive Complex 2

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review