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KMT2C lysine methyltransferase 2C

ENSG00000055609 · protein coding · Open Targets profile

Histone methyltransferase that catalyzes methyl group transfer from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to the epsilon-amino group of 'Lys-4' of histone H3 (H3K4) (PubMed:25561738). Part of chromatin remodeling machinery predominantly forms H3K4me1 methylation marks at active chromatin sites where transcription and DNA repair take place (PubMed:22266653, PubMed:24081332, PubMed:25561738). Likely plays a redundant role with KMT2D in enriching H3K4me1 mark on primed and active enhancer elements (PubMed:24081332). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:22266653, ECO:0000269|PubMed:24081332, ECO:0000269|PubMed:25561738}.

In 15 of 15 cancers, the evidence for KMT2C comes mainly from mutations found in tumours

Each row is a cancer, strongest overall evidence first. The two dots show how strong the inherited (germline) and tumour-mutation (somatic) evidence is; the line between them is the gap.

Inherited (germline) variantsMutations in tumours (somatic)
00.250.50.751prostate adenocarcinomaprostate adenocarcinomaprostate adenocarcinoma: somatic 0.83medulloblastomamedulloblastomamedulloblastoma: somatic 0.76cervical squamous cell carcinomacervical squamous cell carcinomacervical squamous cell carcinoma: somatic 0.73breast adenocarcinomabreast adenocarcinomabreast adenocarcinoma: somatic 0.91urinary bladder cancerurinary bladder cancerurinary bladder cancer: somatic 0.83pancreatic adenocarcinomapancreatic adenocarcinomapancreatic adenocarcinoma: somatic 0.83salivary gland carcinomasalivary gland carcinomasalivary gland carcinoma: somatic 0.64pilocytic astrocytomapilocytic astrocytomapilocytic astrocytoma: somatic 0.61clear cell renal carcinomaclear cell renal carcinomaclear cell renal carcinoma: somatic 0.58anal squamous cell carcinomaanal squamous cell carcinomaanal squamous cell carcinoma: somatic 0.58colorectal adenocarcinomacolorectal adenocarcinomacolorectal adenocarcinoma: somatic 0.56squamous cell lung carcinomasquamous cell lung carcinomasquamous cell lung carcinoma: somatic 0.54plasma cell myelomaplasma cell myelomaplasma cell myeloma: somatic 0.52non-small cell lung carcinomanon-small cell lung carcinomanon-small cell lung carcinoma: somatic 0.61lung carcinomalung carcinomalung carcinoma: somatic 0.61

Scores run from 0 (no evidence) to 1 (strongest). A missing dot at 0 means Open Targets holds no evidence of that kind. Source: Open Targets Platform, fetched live.

Tractability

Small molecule
Structure with Ligand, High-Quality Ligand
PROTAC
Database Ubiquitination, Half-life Data

gnomAD loss of function constraint: o/e 0.1732800006866455 (upper bound 0.20688000321388245). Low values mean loss of function is poorly tolerated, a safety flag for inhibition.

Who runs trials of these drugs

No named investigators on registry trials of KMT2C's approved or late-stage drugs in the last three years.

No terminated, withdrawn or suspended trials of KMT2C's drugs are registered

All 0 drugs and clinical candidates as a table

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DrugTypeHighest stageIndicationsSource records
No drugs or clinical candidates recorded.