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Structural highlights

Disease

NSD2_HUMAN Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. A chromosomal aberration involving WHSC1 is a cause of multiple myeloma tumors. Translocation t(4;14)(p16.3;q32.3) with IgH. WHSC1 is located in the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) critical region. WHS results from by sub-telomeric deletions in the short arm of chromosome 4. WHSC1 is deleted in every case, however deletion of linked genes contributes to both the severity of the core characteristics and the presence of the additional syndromic problems.

Function

NSD2_HUMAN Histone methyltransferase with histone H3 'Lys-27' (H3K27me) methyltransferase activity. Isoform 2 may act as a transcription regulator that binds DNA and suppresses IL5 transcription through HDAC recruitment.^{[1] [2] [3]}

References

1. ↑ Garlisi CG, Uss AS, Xiao H, Tian F, Sheridan KE, Wang L, Motasim Billah M, Egan RW, Stranick KS, Umland SP. A unique mRNA initiated within a middle intron of WHSC1/MMSET encodes a DNA binding protein that suppresses human IL-5 transcription. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2001 Jan;24(1):90-98. PMID:11152655
2. ↑ Hudlebusch HR, Theilgaard-Monch K, Lodahl M, Johnsen HE, Rasmussen T. Identification of ID-1 as a potential target gene of MMSET in multiple myeloma. Br J Haematol. 2005 Sep;130(5):700-8. PMID:16115125 doi:http://dx.doi.org/BJH5664
3. ↑ Kim JY, Kee HJ, Choe NW, Kim SM, Eom GH, Baek HJ, Kook H, Kook H, Seo SB. Multiple-myeloma-related WHSC1/MMSET isoform RE-IIBP is a histone methyltransferase with transcriptional repression activity. Mol Cell Biol. 2008 Mar;28(6):2023-34. doi: 10.1128/MCB.02130-07. Epub 2008 Jan, 2. PMID:18172012 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MCB.02130-07