Asako Kukita, Kenbun Sone, Syuzo Kaneko, Eiryo Kawakami, Shinya Oki, Machiko Kojima, Miku Wada, Yusuke Toyohara, Yu Takahashi, Futaba Inoue, Saki Tanimoto, Ayumi Taguchi, Tomohiko Fukuda, Yuichiro Miyamoto, Michihiro Tanikawa, Mayuyo Mori-Uchino, Tetsushi Tsuruga, Takayuki Iriyama, Yoko Matsumoto, Kazunori Nagasaka, Osamu Wada-Hiraike, Katsutoshi Oda, Ryuji Hamamoto, Yutaka Osuga
The histone methyltransferase SET domain-containing protein 8 (SETD8), which methylates histone H4 lysine 20 (H4K20) and non-histone proteins such as p53, plays key roles in human carcinogenesis. Our aim was to determine the involvement of SETD8 in endometrial cancer and its therapeutic potential and identify the downstream genes regulated by SETD8 via H4K20 methylation and the p53 signaling pathway. We examined the expression profile of SETD8 and evaluated whether SETD8 plays a critical role in the proliferation of endometrial cancer cells using small interfering RNAs (siRNAs)...
October 31, 2022: Cancers