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Symbol SUZ12 contributors: mct - updated : 29-04-2016
HGNC name suppressor of zeste 12 homolog (Drosophila)
HGNC id 17101
EXPRESSION
Type ubiquitous
constitutive of
   expressed in (based on citations)
organ(s)
SystemOrgan level 1Organ level 2Organ level 3Organ level 4LevelPubmedSpeciesStageRna symbol
Endocrinepancreas    
Hearing/Equilibriumearinnercochlea highly
Lymphoid/Immunelymph node   highly
Nervousbrainlimbic systemhippocampus  
 brainhindbraincerebellumcerebellar cortexhighly
Urinarykidney    
tissue
SystemTissueTissue level 1Tissue level 2LevelPubmedSpeciesStageRna symbol
 bone marrow  highly
cells
SystemCellPubmedSpeciesStageRna symbol
NervousPurkinje cell
Nervouspyramidal cell
cell lineage
cell lines
fluid/secretion
at STAGE
physiological period fetal
Text pancreas
PROTEIN
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
STRUCTURE
motifs/domains
  • C terminal zinc finger domain
  • HOMOLOGY
    interspecies homolog to drosophila Suz12
    Homologene
    FAMILY
  • VEFS (VRN2-EMF2-FIS2-SU(Z)12) family
  • CATEGORY unknown/unspecified
    SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATION     intracellular
    intracellular,nucleus
    basic FUNCTION
  • polycomb group protein mediating mitotic recombination causing somatic mosaicism in NF1
  • is required for active methyltransferase activity, Hox gene silencing, and embryonic stem cell differentiation
  • strong suppressor of position effect variegation
  • playing a necessary role for trimethylation of histone H3 on lysine 27 (H3K27me3) on facultative heterochromatin, and regulating H3-K9 methylation in an EZH2-independent fashion
  • playing a role in constitutive heterochromatin formation
  • silences CEBPD promoter activity, enhancing the methylation of exogenous CEBPD promoter through the proximal CpG islands
  • both EED and SUZ12 are required for the integrity of PRC2 and PRC2-mediated H3K27 methylation
  • promotes the proliferation of human epithelial ovarian cancer cells by inhibiting apoptosis
  • EZH1 and SUZ12 act as positive regulators for NFKB1 signaling, demonstrating that EZH1, SUZ12 and UXT work synergistically to regulate pathway activation in the nucleus
  • CELLULAR PROCESS
    PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS
    PATHWAY
    metabolism
    signaling
    a component
  • part of EED/EZH2 histone methyltransferase complexes
  • component of the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2)
  • part of PRC2 complex containing four core components: EZH2, EED, SUZ12, and RBBP7
  • INTERACTION
    DNA
    RNA
    small molecule
    protein
  • . interacting with SNAI1 (SNAI1 increases the binding of SUZ12 to the CDH1 promoter and the trimethylation of lysine 27 in histone H3)
  • Yin-Yang-1 (YY1) physically interacts with SUZ12 and can act as a mediator to recruit the polycomb group proteins and DNA methyltransferases to participate in the CEBPD gene silencing process
  • putative target of the WNT noncanonical signaling pathway
  • interacts with EED, EZH2 and RBBP4 to form the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), which functions to initiate epigenetic silencing of genes involved in cell fate decisions
  • positive correlation between expression of SUZ12 and EZH2
  • HRK is a novel SUZ12 target gene whose upregulation contributes to apoptosis induced by SUZ12 knockdown
  • directly binds to the promoters of the PRC2 target genes probably through its Zinc-finger domains
  • cell & other
    REGULATION
    ASSOCIATED DISORDERS
    corresponding disease(s) NF1DEL , IMMAS
    Other morbid association(s)
    TypeGene ModificationChromosome rearrangementProtein expressionProtein Function
    tumoral   translocation    
    with JAZF1 in t(7;17) (p15;q21) in endometrial stromal sarcoma
    tumoral     --over  
    in bone marrow samples of patients at the blastic phase of chronic myeloid leukemia
    tumoral     --over  
    in epithelial ovarian cancer
    Susceptibility
    Variant & Polymorphism
    Candidate gene
    Marker
    Therapy target
    ANIMAL & CELL MODELS