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PRDM6 promotes medulloblastoma by repressing chromatin accessibility and altering gene expression.
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- Medulloblastoma in Adolescents and Young Adults: Molecular Subgroups, Prognostic Biomarkers, and Age-Specific Therapeutic Challenges.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- The Methylation Regulator PRDM6 Confers Protection Against Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Evidences from Bioinformatics and Experimental Approaches.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2025Article
- From Transcription Factors Dysregulation to Malignancy: In Silico Reconstruction of Cancer's Foundational Drivers-The Eternity Triangle.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Advancing Medulloblastoma Therapy in Pediatrics: Integrative Molecular Classification and Emerging Treatments.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Epigenetic modifications and their roles in pediatric brain tumor formation: emerging insights from chromatin dysregulation.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- Identification and Validation of Prognostic Genes Related to Histone Lactylation Modification in Glioblastoma: An Integrated Analysis of Transcriptome and Single-cell RNA Sequencing.Journal of Cancer · 2025Article
- Commentary: Analysis of head and neck cancer scRNA-seq data identified PRDM6 promotes tumor progression by modulating immune gene expression.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Analysis of head and neck cancer scRNA-seq data identified PRDM6 promotes tumor progression by modulating immune gene expression.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Epigenetic Modifiers: Exploring the Roles of Histone Methyltransferases and Demethylases in Cancer and Neurodegeneration.Biology · 2024Review
- Global lncRNA expression profiles in medulloblastoma reveal crucial lncRNA-oncogene interactions in Sonic hedgehog and Group 4.Neuro-oncology advancesArticle
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Abstract
SNCAIP duplication may promote Group 4 medulloblastoma via induction of PRDM6, a poorly characterized member of the PRDF1 and RIZ1 homology domain-containing (PRDM) family of transcription factors. Here, we investigated the function of PRDM6 in human hindbrain neuroepithelial stem cells and tested PRDM6 as a driver of Group 4 medulloblastoma. We report that human PRDM6 localizes predominantly to the nucleus, where it causes widespread repression of chromatin accessibility and complex alterations of gene expression patterns. Genome-wide mapping of PRDM6 binding reveals that PRDM6 binds to chromatin regions marked by histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation that are located within, or proximal to, genes. Moreover, we show that PRDM6 expression in neuroepithelial stem cells promotes medulloblastoma. Surprisingly, medulloblastomas derived from PRDM6-expressing neuroepithelial stem cells match human Group 3, but not Group 4, medulloblastoma. We conclude that PRDM6 expression has oncogenic potential but is insufficient to drive Group 4 medulloblastoma from neuroepithelial stem cells. We propose that both PRDM6 and additional factors, such as specific cell-of-origin features, are required for Group 4 medulloblastoma. Given the lack of PRDM6 expression in normal tissues and its oncogenic potential shown here, we suggest that PRDM6 inhibition may have therapeutic value in PRDM6-expressing medulloblastomas.
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