Pathway candidateNCBI-verifiedprotein-coding

EZH1

enhancer of zeste 1 polycomb repressive complex 2 subunit

NCBI Gene: 2145 Ensembl GeneCards UniProt: Q92800

Pathway candidate — not linked to PFS or PSSD by any record here

EZH1 is in the library because it belongs to the epigenetic regulation family. No study, report or commentary in the corpus names it, so a variant in EZH1 is not, by itself, evidence of anything related to post-drug syndromes.

Gene summary

A protein-coding gene on chromosome 17 (epigenetic regulation). EZH1 is a component of a noncanonical Polycomb repressive complex-2 (PRC2) that mediates methylation of histone H3 (see MIM 602812) lys27 (H3K27) and functions in the maintenance of embryonic stem cell pluripotency and plasticity (Shen et al., 2008 ).

Source: NCBI Gene, accessed 2026-10-07.

Protein reference (UniProt)

Protein: Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase EZH1
Function: Polycomb group (PcG) protein. Catalytic subunit of the PRC2/EED-EZH1 complex, which methylates 'Lys-27' of histone H3, leading to transcriptional repression of the affected target gene. Able to mono-, di- and trimethylate 'Lys-27' of histone H3 to form H3K27me1, H3K27me2 and H3K27me3, respectively. Required for embryonic stem cell derivation and self-renewal, suggesting that it is involved in safeguarding embryonic stem cell identity. Compared to EZH2-containing complexes, it is less abundant in embryonic stem cells, has weak methyltransferase activity and plays a less critical role in forming H3K27me3, which is required for embryonic stem cell identity and proper differentiation.
Subcellular location: Nucleus.

Source: UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Q92800, release 2026_03, licensed CC BY 4.0. This is the protein’s normal biology, not evidence about post-drug syndromes; associated conditions are inherited disorders of the gene, not PFS, PSSD or PRSD.

Why its pathway is in the library

Epigenetic persistence is the leading hypothesis for why post-drug syndromes endure after the drug is gone; chromatin regulators are therefore priority candidates in any persistence mechanism.

Written for the whole epigenetic regulation family, not for EZH1 specifically.

Mentioned in 0 corpus records

No corpus record names EZH1 directly yet. It is in the library because it sits in a pathway the corpus tracks (Epigenetic regulation).

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Gene summary

Source: NCBI Gene, accessed 2026-10-07.

Protein reference (UniProt)

Protein: Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase EZH1
Function: Polycomb group (PcG) protein. Catalytic subunit of the PRC2/EED-EZH1 complex, which methylates 'Lys-27' of histone H3, leading to transcriptional repression of the affected target gene. Able to mono-, di- and trimethylate 'Lys-27' of histone H3 to form H3K27me1, H3K27me2 and H3K27me3, respectively. Required for embryonic stem cell derivation and self-renewal, suggesting that it is involved in safeguarding embryonic stem cell identity. Compared to EZH2-containing complexes, it is less abundant in embryonic stem cells, has weak methyltransferase activity and plays a less critical role in forming H3K27me3, which is required for embryonic stem cell identity and proper differentiation.
Subcellular location: Nucleus.