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Lee, W; Teckie, S; Wiesner, T; Ran, L; Prieto Granada, CN; Lin, M; Zhu, S; Cao, Z; Liang, Y; Sboner, A; Tap, WD; Fletcher, JA; Huberman, KH; Qin, LX; Viale, A; Singer, S; Zheng, D; Berger, MF; Chen, Y; Antonescu, CR; Chi, P.
PRC2 is recurrently inactivated through EED or SUZ12 loss in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors.
Nat Genet. 2014; 46(11): 1227-1232.
Doi: 10.1038/ng.3095
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- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) represent a group of highly aggressive soft-tissue sarcomas that may occur sporadically, in association with neurofibromatosis type I (NF1 associated) or after radiotherapy. Using comprehensive genomic approaches, we identified loss-of-function somatic alterations of the Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) components (EED or SUZ12) in 92% of sporadic, 70% of NF1-associated and 90% of radiotherapy-associated MPNSTs. MPNSTs with PRC2 loss showed complete loss of trimethylation at lysine 27 of histone H3 (H3K27me3) and aberrant transcriptional activation of multiple PRC2-repressed homeobox master regulators and their regulated developmental pathways. Introduction of the lost PRC2 component in a PRC2-deficient MPNST cell line restored H3K27me3 levels and decreased cell growth. Additionally, we identified frequent somatic alterations of CDKN2A (81% of all MPNSTs) and NF1 (72% of non-NF1-associated MPNSTs), both of which significantly co-occur with PRC2 alterations. The highly recurrent and specific inactivation of PRC2 components, NF1 and CDKN2A highlights their critical and potentially cooperative roles in MPNST pathogenesis.
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