Polycomb Repressive Complex 2

"Polycomb Repressive Complex 2" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A multisubunit polycomb protein complex that catalyzes the METHYLATION of chromosomal HISTONE H3. It works in conjunction with POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1 to effect EPIGENETIC REPRESSION.

Descriptor ID	D063151
MeSH Number(s)	D05.500.781.750 D08.811.913.555.500.800.400.500 D12.776.660.235.600.200 D12.776.664.235.800.200 D12.776.930.780.890.200
Concept/Terms	Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Polycomb Repressive Complex 2

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Polycomb Repressive Complex 2".

Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Macromolecular Substances [D05]
Multiprotein Complexes [D05.500]
Polycomb-Group Proteins [D05.500.781]
Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 [D05.500.781.750]
Enzymes and Coenzymes [D08]
Enzymes [D08.811]
Transferases [D08.811.913]
One-Carbon Group Transferases [D08.811.913.555]
Methyltransferases [D08.811.913.555.500]
Protein Methyltransferases [D08.811.913.555.500.800]
Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase [D08.811.913.555.500.800.400]
Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 [D08.811.913.555.500.800.400.500]
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
Proteins [D12.776]
Nuclear Proteins [D12.776.660]
Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone [D12.776.660.235]
Polycomb-Group Proteins [D12.776.660.235.600]
Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 [D12.776.660.235.600.200]
Nucleoproteins [D12.776.664]
Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone [D12.776.664.235]
Polycomb-Group Proteins [D12.776.664.235.800]
Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 [D12.776.664.235.800.200]
Transcription Factors [D12.776.930]
Repressor Proteins [D12.776.930.780]
Polycomb-Group Proteins [D12.776.930.780.890]
Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 [D12.776.930.780.890.200]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
2002	0	1	1
2003	0	1	1
2006	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2009	0	1	1
2013	1	0	1
2015	0	2	2
2016	1	0	1
2017	0	1	1
2020	0	1	1
2021	0	1	1

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van der Velde A, Fan K, Tsuji J, Moore JE, Purcaro MJ, Pratt HE, Weng Z. Annotation of chromatin states in 66 complete mouse epigenomes during development. Commun Biol. 2021 02 22; 4(1):239.

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Guajardo L, Aguilar R, Bustos FJ, Nardocci G, Guti?rrez RA, van Zundert B, Montecino M. Downregulation of the Polycomb-Associated Methyltransferase Ezh2 during Maturation of Hippocampal Neurons Is Mediated by MicroRNAs Let-7 and miR-124. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Nov 11; 21(22).

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Clancy KW, Russell AM, Subramanian V, Nguyen H, Qian Y, Campbell RM, Thompson PR. Citrullination/Methylation Crosstalk on Histone H3 Regulates ER-Target Gene Transcription. ACS Chem Biol. 2017 06 16; 12(6):1691-1702.

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Aguilar R, Bustos FJ, Saez M, Rojas A, Allende ML, van Wijnen AJ, van Zundert B, Montecino M. Polycomb PRC2 complex mediates epigenetic silencing of a critical osteogenic master regulator in the hippocampus. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2016 08; 1859(8):1043-55.

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Dong X, Tsuji J, Labadorf A, Roussos P, Chen JF, Myers RH, Akbarian S, Weng Z. The Role of H3K4me3 in Transcriptional Regulation Is Altered in Huntington's Disease. PLoS One. 2015; 10(12):e0144398.

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Chen PB, Chen HV, Acharya D, Rando OJ, Fazzio TG. R loops regulate promoter-proximal chromatin architecture and cellular differentiation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015 Dec; 22(12):999-1007.

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Dudakovic A, Camilleri ET, Xu F, Riester SM, McGee-Lawrence ME, Bradley EW, Paradise CR, Lewallen EA, Thaler R, Deyle DR, Larson AN, Lewallen DG, Dietz AB, Stein GS, Montecino MA, Westendorf JJ, van Wijnen AJ. Epigenetic Control of Skeletal Development by the Histone Methyltransferase Ezh2. J Biol Chem. 2015 Nov 13; 290(46):27604-17.

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McHugh CA, Chen CK, Chow A, Surka CF, Tran C, McDonel P, Pandya-Jones A, Blanco M, Burghard C, Moradian A, Sweredoski MJ, Shishkin AA, Su J, Lander ES, Hess S, Plath K, Guttman M. The Xist lncRNA interacts directly with SHARP to silence transcription through HDAC3. Nature. 2015 May 14; 521(7551):232-6.

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Bhatnagar S, Green MR. TRIMming down tumor suppressors in breast cancer. Cell Cycle. 2015; 14(9):1345-6.

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Pereira RM, Martinez GJ, Engel I, Cruz-Guilloty F, Barboza BA, Tsagaratou A, Lio CW, Berg LJ, Lee Y, Kronenberg M, Bandukwala HS, Rao A. Jarid2 is induced by TCR signalling and controls iNKT cell maturation. Nat Commun. 2014 Aug 08; 5:4540.

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