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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Burr ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6876280 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cancer cell 20190926 4
Loss of MHC class I (MHC-I) antigen presentation in cancer cells can elicit immunotherapy resistance. A genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen identified an evolutionarily conserved function of polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) that mediates coordinated transcriptional silencing of the MHC-I antigen processing pathway (MHC-I APP), promoting evasion of T cell-mediated immunity. MHC-I APP gene promoters in MHC-I low cancers harbor bivalent activating H3K4me3 and repressive H3K27me3 histone modification ...[more]