1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 EED orchestration of heart maturation through interaction with HDACs is H3K27me3- 10 independent 11 12 Shanshan Ai1*, Yong Peng1*, Chen Li1, Fei Gu2, Xianhong Yu1, Yanzhu Yue1, Qing Ma2, 13 Jinghai Chen2, Zhiqiang Lin2, Pingzhu Zhou2, Huafeng Xie3, Terence W. Prendiville2,†, Wen 14 Zheng1, Yuli Liu1, Stuart H. Orkin3,4,5, Da-Zhi Wang2,4, Jia Yu6 15 William T. Pu2,4,7§ & Aibin He1,7§ 16 17 18 19 20 21 1Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, 22 Beijing 100871, China 23 2Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 24 02115, USA 25 3Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatric 26 Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 27 4Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 727W, 28 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. 29 5Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA. 30 6Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Medical 31 Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical 32 Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China. 33 7Co-senior author 34 35 *Contributed equally to this work. 36 †Present address: Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Our Lady's Children's Hospital 37 Crumlin, Dublin 12, Ireland. 38 39 40 41 §Correspondence: Aibin He (
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[email protected]) 43 44 45 46 - 1 - 47 ABSTRACT 48 In proliferating cells, where most Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) studies have 49 been performed, gene repression is associated with PRC2 trimethylation of H3K27 50 (H3K27me3).