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. 2023 May 22;40(7):185.
doi: 10.1007/s12032-023-02053-2.

Depletion of enhancer zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) directs transcription factors associated with T cell differentiation through epigenetic regulation of Yin Yang 1(YY1) in combating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Nikhil Chandnani #  1 , Vedika Shrirang Choudhari #  1 , Rajat Talukdar #  1 , Sudeshna Rakshit #  1 , Geetha Shanmugam #  1 , Shiuli Guchait #  1 , Ishika Gupta #  1 , Melvin George  2 , Koustav Sarkar  3
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Depletion of enhancer zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) directs transcription factors associated with T cell differentiation through epigenetic regulation of Yin Yang 1(YY1) in combating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Nikhil Chandnani et al. Med Oncol. .

Abstract

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of death in all countries alike. In the current study, we have found out that Histone H3Lys4trimethylation is abnormal on YY1 in CD4+T Helper (TH) cells of NSCLC patients which is evident by Histone H3Lys27 trimethylation mediated via EZH2. We investigated the status of Yin Yang 1 (YY1) and the involvement of certain transcription factors that lead to tumorigenesis after depleting endogenous EZH2 in vitro by CRISPR/Cas9 in the CD4+TH1-or-TH2-polarized cells isolated initially as CD4+TH0 cells from the PBMC of the control subjects and patients suffering from NSCLC. After depletion of endogenous EZH2, RT-qPCR based mRNA expression analysis showed that there was an increase in the expression of TH1 specific genes and a decrease in the expression of TH2 specific genes in NSCLC patients CD4+TH cells. We can conclude that this group of NSCLC patients may have the tendency at least in vitro to elucidate adaptive/protective immunity through the depletion of endogenous EZH2 along with the reduction in the expression of YY1. Moreover, depletion of EZH2 not only suppressed the CD4+CD25+FOXP3+Regulatory T cells (Treg) but also it aided the generation of CD8+Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes (CTL) which were involved in killing of the NSCLC cells. Thus the transcription factors involved in EZH2 mediated T cell differentiation linked to malignancies offers us an appealing avenue of _targeted therapeutic intervention for NSCLC.

Keywords: EZH2; NSCLC; T cell differentiation; Transcription factors; YY1.

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