Transient loss of Polycomb components induces an epigenetic cancer fate - Université de Montpellier
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Transient loss of Polycomb components induces an epigenetic cancer fate

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Cell fate depends on genetic, epigenetic and environmental inputs that are interconnected, making it difficult to disentangle their respective contributions to cell fate decisions 1-3 , and epigenetic reprogramming is a major contributor to tumor plasticity and adaptation 4-6 . Although cancer initiation and progression are generally associated with the accumulation of somatic mutations 7,8 , substantial epigenomic alterations underlie many aspects of tumorigenesis and cancer susceptibility 9-18 , suggesting that genetic mechanisms alone may not be sufficient to drive malignant transformations 19-23 . However, whether purely non-genetic reprogramming mechanisms are sufficient to initiate tumorigenesis irrespective of mutations is unknown. Here, we show that a transient perturbation of transcriptional silencing mediated by Polycomb-Group proteins is sufficient to induce an irreversible switch to a cancer cell fate in Drosophila . This is linked to the irreversible derepression of genes that can drive tumorigenesis, including JNK and JAK-STAT signalling pathways and zfh1 , the fly homolog of the ZEB1 oncogene, which we show to be a necessary driver of the cancer fate. These data show that a reversible perturbation of Polycomb-Group protein levels can induce cancer in the absence of driver mutations and suggest that this is achieved through epigenetic inheritance of altered cell fates.
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hal-04252107 , version 1 (20-10-2023)

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Victoria Parreno, Vincent Loubiere, Bernd Schuettengruber, Maksim Erokhin, Balázs Győrffy, et al.. Transient loss of Polycomb components induces an epigenetic cancer fate. 2023. ⟨hal-04252107⟩
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