Discovery of a chemical probe for PRDM9

PRDM9 is a PR domain containing histone methyl transferase which expression is normally restricted to the germline that has also been linked to a number of somatic cancers. Here the authors describe the identification of a small molecule that selectivity inhibits the methyltransferase activity of PR...

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Main Authors: Abdellah Allali-Hassani, Magdalena M. Szewczyk, Danton Ivanochko, Shawna L. Organ, Jabez Bok, Jessica Sook Yuin Ho, Florence P. H. Gay, Fengling Li, Levi Blazer, Mohammad S. Eram, Levon Halabelian, David Dilworth, Genna M. Luciani, Evelyne Lima-Fernandes, Qin Wu, Peter Loppnau, Nathan Palmer, S. Zakiah A. Talib, Peter J. Brown, Matthieu Schapira, Philipp Kaldis, Ronan C. O’Hagan, Ernesto Guccione, Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith, John M. Sanders, Solomon D. Kattar, D. Jonathan Bennett, Benjamin Nicholson, Masoud Vedadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13652-x