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PRMT5

Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 5 · UniProt O14744

Length
637 aa
Mass
72.7 kDa
Annotated
2026-06-10
100 papers in source corpus 50 papers cited in narrative 49 extracted findings
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Mechanistic narrative

Synthesis pass · prose summary of the discoveries below

PRMT5 is the principal type II protein arginine methyltransferase that catalyzes mono- and symmetric dimethylation of arginine on histone and non-histone substrates, governing chromatin states, RNA splicing fidelity, cell cycle, DNA repair, and developmental programs (PMID:10531356, PMID:28271477). It acts only in obligate complex with MEP50/WDR77, forming a 453 kDa heterooctamer whose crystal structure defines how cofactor binding and substrate peptide engagement drive processive dimethylation (PMID:28271477), and its activity is augmented by scaffolds such as TBL2 that promote the PRMT5-WDR77 interaction (PMID:39499734). Substrate selection is conferred by a family of modular adaptors (CLNS1A/pICln, RIOK1, COPR5) that dock onto PRMT5 through a single conserved peptide motif necessary and sufficient for binding, directing methylation to spliceosomal Sm proteins, histones, and ribosomal complexes (PMID:34358446). On chromatin, PRMT5 deposits symmetric H4R3me2s and H3R8me2s marks—and, with Smad3, H3R2me2s—to repress or activate loci including CDKN2B, CD274/PD-L1, the alpha-SMA promoter, and oligodendrocyte differentiation genes, frequently in cooperation with EZH2 or the WDR5/MLL1 complex (PMID:30026560, PMID:35111150, PMID:33664859, PMID:38503742). As a writer for the spliceosome it safeguards splicing fidelity, and its inhibition produces transcriptome-wide intron retention and aberrant isoforms—notably of cell-cycle and DNA-repair (Fanconi anemia/HR) genes and of ATF4—causing DNA damage, mitotic defects, and senescence (PMID:33579912, PMID:30604754, PMID:35305370, PMID:39695328). Through methylation of non-histone substrates PRMT5 drives oncogenic and stress-response signaling: it activates AKT1 by methylating R391 to enable membrane translocation (PMID:34103528, PMID:35803962), stabilizes the ferroptosis-protective GPX4 at R152 by blocking Cullin1-FBW7 ubiquitination (PMID:40033101), suppresses Hippo signaling by methylating MST2 at R461/R467 (PMID:37905571), dampens cGAS-STING antiviral sensing by methylating cGAS at R124 (PMID:33762328), and methylates SMAD4 (R361), ALKBH5 (R316), 53BP1, KLF5 (R41), FoxO1, KEAP1, and the D2 dopamine receptor to control EMT, m6A-dependent gene expression, NHEJ repair, and other programs (PMID:32759981, PMID:37380368, PMID:35278676, PMID:36991117, PMID:26554819, PMID:37883229, PMID:39781264, PMID:37461162). PRMT5 activity is tuned by phosphorylation—Src at Y324 blocks SAM binding and inhibits NHEJ (PMID:32759981), LKB1 at T132/T139/T144 modulates cofactor binding (PMID:30289978), and MST4 at S439/S463 stimulates activity and METTL3 engagement (PMID:40158218)—and by the metabolite MTA, which competitively inhibits PRMT5 when MTAP is deleted, generating a hypomorphic state and a selective vulnerability also extending to MAT2A and RIOK1 (PMID:26912360, PMID:26912361, PMID:27068473, PMID:33450196). Genetic ablation studies establish essential developmental and immune roles in myelination, B and T cell development, germ cell specification, and myogenesis (PMID:30026560, PMID:30604754, PMID:32328070, PMID:31533925).

Mechanistic history

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  1. 1996 Medium

    Before any enzymatic role was known, the question was what cellular process the PRMT5 ortholog participates in; work in fission yeast placed Skb1 within Ras/PAK morphology-control signaling.

    Evidence Yeast two-hybrid and in vivo ternary complex with Shk1 (PAK) and Cdc42, plus genetic epistasis in S. pombe

    PMID:8943016

    Open questions at the time
    • No biochemical demonstration of methyltransferase activity at this stage
    • Human ortholog role not yet tested
  2. 1998 Medium

    Whether the yeast and human proteins are functionally equivalent and how they affect cell division was unknown; complementation showed conservation and linked the protein to mitotic inhibition via the Cdc2 complex.

    Evidence Genetic complementation of S. pombe skb1 by human SKB1Hs, epistasis with Shk1/Wee1, co-IP with Cdc2

    PMID:9843966

    Open questions at the time
    • Mechanism of mitotic regulation in human cells unaddressed
    • No direct substrate identified
  3. 1999 High

    The founding question of molecular activity was answered: PRMT5 is a bona fide methyltransferase, establishing the enzymatic identity that underlies all later work.

    Evidence AdoMet cross-linking, in vitro methylation of histones H2A/H4 and MBP, active-site mutagenesis, co-IP with Jak2

    PMID:10531356

    Open questions at the time
    • Symmetric vs asymmetric dimethylation specificity not yet defined
    • Physiological substrates beyond in vitro assays unknown
  4. 2001 Medium

    How PRMT5 activity is regulated was unclear; stress-responsive control of localization and activity was shown to be conserved from yeast to human.

    Evidence Fluorescence localization and in vitro activity under hyperosmotic stress in S. pombe with human protein complementation

    PMID:11278267

    Open questions at the time
    • Molecular signal coupling stress to activity not defined
    • Relevance to mammalian cells untested
  5. 2016 High

    A central therapeutic question—why PRMT5 is selectively essential in certain cancers—was answered by showing MTAP loss raises MTA, which competitively inhibits PRMT5, creating a hypomorphic, dependency-prone state.

    Evidence Metabolomics, biochemical methyltransferase inhibition by MTA, shRNA screens across cancer lines, isogenic MTAP rescue; extended to MAT2A and RIOK1 vulnerabilities

    PMID:26912360 PMID:26912361 PMID:27068473

    Open questions at the time
    • Which substrates are most rate-limiting under partial inhibition not resolved
    • Did not define adaptor-level substrate routing
  6. 2017 High

    The structural basis of obligate complex formation and processive dimethylation was unknown; the PRMT5:MEP50 heterooctamer structure defined cofactor and substrate recognition.

    Evidence Crystal structure of human PRMT5:MEP50 with SAM analog and substrate peptide

    PMID:28271477

    Open questions at the time
    • Does not explain how diverse adaptors select substrates
    • Regulatory phosphorylation effects not captured
  7. 2018 High

    Two questions—how upstream kinases tune activity and how PRMT5 controls cell differentiation epigenetically—were addressed, linking LKB1 phosphorylation to cofactor binding and H4R3me2s to myelination.

    Evidence Kinase assays and PRMT5 mutagenesis (T132/T139/T144); conditional KO and purified-histone assays establishing H4R3me2s in oligodendrocyte differentiation

    PMID:30026560 PMID:30289978

    Open questions at the time
    • Stoichiometry and dynamics of LKB1 phosphorylation in vivo unclear
    • Full set of differentiation-relevant loci not mapped
  8. 2019 High

    The scope of cellular symmetric dimethylation and PRMT5's developmental requirement were defined, identifying its writer/reader pathway components and an essential role in B cell development and splicing fidelity.

    Evidence CRISPR screen identifying MEP50, PPP4C, SMNDC1, SRSF3; conditional B-cell KO with RNA-seq splicing analysis and p53-dependency crosses; zebrafish KO defining germline substrates Zili/Vasa

    PMID:30604754 PMID:30916320 PMID:31533925

    Open questions at the time
    • Degree of PRMT1 redundancy across tissues not quantified
    • Direct splicing substrate map in B cells incomplete
  9. 2020 Medium

    How phosphorylation gates PRMT5 in DNA repair and how PRMT5 restrains innate immunity were answered, revealing Src-Y324 control of SAM binding and methylation-dependent suppression of cGAS/STING and antigen presentation.

    Evidence Y324 mutagenesis and SAM-binding assays with NHEJ readouts; PRMT5 knockdown/inhibition with IFN, NLRC5/MHCI readouts in mouse models; T-cell conditional KO defining gamma-chain dependency

    PMID:32328070 PMID:32641491 PMID:32759981

    Open questions at the time
    • Direct methylation sites on 53BP1 not defined
    • In vivo immune effects rest on single-lab models
  10. 2021 High

    A major mechanistic expansion connected PRMT5 to oncogenic signaling, splicing, and genome stability: methylation of AKT1-R391 and cGAS-R124, the adaptor-motif logic of substrate recruitment, and SAM/splicing-driven DNA damage in MTAP-null cells.

    Evidence In vitro methylation/mutagenesis and membrane-translocation/kinase assays (AKT1); structural and mutagenic mapping of the conserved adaptor motif; MAT2A inhibitor with RNA-seq/proteomics; orthogonal PRMT5 inhibitors with patient-derived GBM RNA-seq; RNF168/SMURF2 H2AX-stability cascade; cGAS DNA-binding and HSV-1 models; catalytic-dead rescue separating scaffold from enzymatic vascular roles; EZH2 cooperation at CDKN2B

    PMID:31533041 PMID:33450196 PMID:33579912 PMID:33664859 PMID:33762328 PMID:34103528 PMID:34153034 PMID:34358446 PMID:35803962

    Open questions at the time
    • Which substrate methylations dominate the cancer dependency unresolved
    • Scaffold vs catalytic contributions not separated for most loci
  11. 2022 Medium

    PRMT5 was placed at the crossroads of metabolism, ferroptosis, m6A biology, and inflammation through methylation of KEAP1, ALKBH5, SMAD4, and NF-kB p65, and through histone-mark control of PD-L1.

    Evidence Methylation/co-IP and functional ferroptosis, m6A, EMT/metastasis, and VCAM-1 inflammation readouts; ChIP of H4R3me2s at the CD274 promoter

    PMID:35111150 PMID:35278676 PMID:35379776 PMID:36991117 PMID:37380368

    Open questions at the time
    • Individual methylation sites mostly mapped in single labs
    • Cross-pathway integration in vivo not established
  12. 2023 High

    The non-histone substrate repertoire broadened to control Hippo signaling, autophagy, lipid metabolism, and protein stability, while a Smad3-directed H3R2me2s-to-H3K4me3 relay was defined in fibrosis.

    Evidence Site-specific methylation and functional assays for MST2-R461/467, ULK1-R532, FoxO1, SREBP1a, KLF5-R41, G3BP2-R468; fibroblast-specific KO with ChIP defining the WDR5/MLL1 hand-off at the alpha-SMA promoter; STC2 and DNA-repair coupling

    PMID:36764215 PMID:36878903 PMID:37334900 PMID:37400460 PMID:37461162 PMID:37883229 PMID:37905571 PMID:38503742

    Open questions at the time
    • Tissue specificity of each substrate methylation not generalized
    • Most non-histone sites await structural confirmation
  13. 2025 Medium

    Recent work cemented PRMT5 control over ferroptosis and DNA repair via protein-stability switches and a phosphorylation-driven METTL3 axis, refining how methylation determines substrate ubiquitination and damage-site recruitment.

    Evidence GPX4-R152 methylation blocking Cullin1-FBW7 ubiquitination; ALKBH5-R316 methylation promoting TRIM28 degradation and CD276-driven immune evasion; MST4 phosphorylation of PRMT5 stimulating METTL3-R36 methylation and RAD51-dependent HR repair

    PMID:39781264 PMID:40033101 PMID:40158218

    Open questions at the time
    • Interplay between competing E3 ligases context-dependent
    • MST4-PRMT5-METTL3 axis validated in a single cancer setting

Open questions

Synthesis pass · forward-looking unresolved questions
  • It remains unresolved which of PRMT5's many histone and non-histone methylation events are rate-limiting for its cancer dependency and how scaffolding versus catalytic functions are partitioned across tissues.
  • No unified hierarchy of physiologically dominant substrates
  • Adaptor-level substrate routing not mapped genome-wide in human cells
  • Separation of enzymatic from scaffold roles only shown for vascular morphogenesis

Mechanism profile

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Molecular activity
GO:0140096 catalytic activity, acting on a protein 7 GO:0016740 transferase activity 4 GO:0042393 histone binding 3
Localization
GO:0005634 nucleus 3 GO:0005829 cytosol 2
Pathway
R-HSA-8953854 Metabolism of RNA 5 R-HSA-168256 Immune System 4 R-HSA-4839726 Chromatin organization 4 R-HSA-73894 DNA Repair 4 R-HSA-162582 Signal Transduction 3 R-HSA-1640170 Cell Cycle 3 R-HSA-5357801 Programmed Cell Death 2 R-HSA-9612973 Autophagy 2
Complex memberships
PRMT5:MEP50/WDR77 methylosome

Evidence

Reading pass · 49 per-paper findings extracted from the source corpus
Year Finding Method Journal Conf PMIDs
1999 Human PRMT5 (JBP1/SKB1Hs) is a protein methyltransferase that can be cross-linked to radiolabeled S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) and methylates histones H2A and H4 as well as myelin basic protein in vitro. Conserved motifs implicated in AdoMet binding are required for activity, as substitution mutants in this region show little or no methyltransferase activity. PRMT5 co-immunoprecipitates with Jak2 and several other proteins that serve as methyl-group acceptors. AdoMet cross-linking, in vitro methyltransferase assay, active-site mutagenesis, co-immunoprecipitation, yeast two-hybrid The Journal of biological chemistry High 10531356
1998 The human homolog SKB1Hs can functionally replace fission yeast Skb1 in S. pombe, indicating evolutionary conservation of function. Fission yeast Skb1 negatively regulates mitosis by a mechanism independent of Cdc25 but at least partially dependent on Shk1 and Wee1; Skb1 and Shk1 biochemically associate with Cdc2 in S. pombe, suggesting inhibition of mitosis through interaction with the Cdc2 complex. Genetic complementation, genetic epistasis, biochemical co-immunoprecipitation with Cdc2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Medium 9843966
1996 Fission yeast Skb1 (ortholog of human PRMT5) interacts with Shk1 (PAK homolog) via the N-terminal regulatory domain of Shk1 at a site distinct from the Cdc42-binding region; Skb1, Shk1 and Cdc42 can form a ternary complex in vivo. Skb1 positively modulates Shk1 function and acts as a component of the morphology-control branch of the Ras signaling cascade. Yeast two-hybrid, in vivo co-immunoprecipitation (ternary complex), genetic epistasis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Medium 8943016
2001 Fission yeast Skb1 localizes to cell ends, sites of septation, and nuclei; hyperosmotic shock causes delocalization from cell ends and nuclei and stimulates Skb1 protein methyltransferase activity. The methyltransferase activity of the human homolog Skb1Hs is similarly stimulated by hyperosmotic stress in fission yeast, indicating evolutionary conservation of the stress-responsive activity regulation. Subcellular localization by fluorescence microscopy, in vitro methyltransferase activity assay under osmotic stress, functional complementation in yeast The Journal of biological chemistry Medium 11278267
2016 Loss of MTAP leads to intracellular accumulation of methylthioadenosine (MTA), which specifically and potently inhibits PRMT5 enzymatic activity. MTAP-null cells therefore display a hypomorphic PRMT5 state and selective dependence on PRMT5 and its binding partner WDR77. Reconstitution of MTAP in MTAP-deficient cells rescues PRMT5 dependence. Metabolomic profiling, biochemical methyltransferase inhibition assays (MTA vs. PRMT5), shRNA screening across 390 cancer cell lines, isogenic cell line rescue experiments Science (New York, N.Y.) High 26912360 26912361 27068473
2016 MTA is a potent and selective inhibitor of PRMT5 among a panel of methyltransferases. MAT2A, which produces the PRMT5 substrate SAM, is also a synthetic lethal target in MTAP-deleted cells because MAT2A depletion reduces SAM levels and further attenuates PRMT5 methylation activity. RIOK1, a PRMT5 co-complex protein, is also a vulnerability in MTAP-deleted cells. Biochemical methyltransferase enzyme panel profiling, metabolomic studies, shRNA screening, co-complex identification Cell reports High 27068473
2017 The PRMT5:MEP50 complex forms a 453 kDa heterooctamer. Crystal structures of this complex bound to an S-adenosylmethionine analog and a substrate peptide reveal the mechanism of substrate recognition and procession to dimethylation. Crystal structure determination of human PRMT5:MEP50 complex with SAM analog and substrate peptide Sub-cellular biochemistry High 28271477
2018 LKB1 directly interacts with and phosphorylates PRMT5 at T132, T139 and T144 residues in its TIM-barrel domain. Point mutations T139A/T144A drastically reduce PRMT5 methyltransferase activity, likely by disrupting interaction with regulatory cofactors MEP50, pICln and RiOK1. Modulation of LKB1 expression alters PRMT5 activity. Co-immunoprecipitation, in vitro kinase assay identifying phosphorylation sites, point mutagenesis of PRMT5, methyltransferase activity assay International journal of cancer Medium 30289978
2019 PRMT5 functions in complex with MEP50/WDR77 and is responsible for the vast majority of symmetric dimethylarginine in cells. A CRISPR/Cas9 screen identified PRMT5, MEP50/WDR77, PPP4C, SMNDC1, and SRSF3 as components of the PRMT5 writer/reader pathway. Loss of PRMT1 (the major asymmetric arginine methyltransferase) also sensitizes cells to PRMT5 inhibition, demonstrating partial redundancy between the PRMT5 and PRMT1 pathways. CRISPR/Cas9 genetic screen, combinatorial inhibitor treatment, genetic epistasis Nucleic acids research Medium 30916320
2020 PRMT5 is phosphorylated at residue Y324 by Src kinase, which suppresses PRMT5 activity by preventing its binding to the methyl donor S-adenosyl-L-methionine. PRMT5 activity promotes non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) DNA repair by methylating and stabilizing 53BP1; Src-mediated phosphorylation of PRMT5 during DNA damage inhibits NHEJ and promotes apoptosis. Site-specific phosphorylation assay, mutagenesis of Y324, SAM-binding assay, co-immunoprecipitation of PRMT5 with 53BP1, NHEJ repair assays, cell survival after DNA damage Communications biology Medium 32759981
2020 PRMT5 methylation of IFI16/IFI204 (components of the cGAS/STING pathway) attenuates cytosolic DNA-induced IFN and chemokine expression in melanoma cells. PRMT5 also inhibits NLRC5 transcription, reducing MHC class I antigen presentation. PRMT5 knockdown augments IFN and chemokine production and increases MHC class I abundance. PRMT5 knockdown (shRNA), pharmacological inhibition (GSK3326595), measurement of IFN/chemokine production, NLRC5 and MHCI expression, immunocompetent vs immunocompromised mouse models Science translational medicine Medium 32641491
2021 PRMT5 promotes AKT1 activation by catalyzing symmetric dimethylation of AKT1 at arginine 391 (R391). R391 methylation cooperates with PIP3 to relieve the PH-in conformation of AKT1, enabling its translocation to the plasma membrane and subsequent activation by PDK1 and mTORC2. Deficiency in AKT1-R391 methylation significantly suppresses AKT1 kinase activity and tumorigenesis. In vitro methylation assay, mutagenesis of AKT1-R391, AKT1 membrane translocation assay, kinase activity assay, co-immunoprecipitation with PDK1/mTORC2, xenograft tumor models Nature communications High 34103528 35803962
2021 PRMT5 uses modular adaptor proteins (CLNS1A/pICln, RIOK1, and COPR5) for substrate recruitment through an evolutionarily conserved peptide motif shared among all three adaptors. This motif is necessary and sufficient for interaction with PRMT5. Disruption of the PRMT5-adaptor interface impairs methylation of adaptor-recruited substrates including spliceosome Sm proteins, histones, and ribosomal complexes, affects Sm spliceosome activity leading to intron retention, and impairs growth of MTAP-null tumor cells. Structural resolution of the PRMT5-adaptor interface, mutagenesis of the binding motif, methylation assays of adaptor-recruited substrates, RNA splicing assays, MTAP-null cell growth assays Molecular cell High 34358446
2021 PRMT5 regulates the expression of the E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF168, thereby stabilizing H2AX. Suppression of PRMT5 (e.g., in MTAP-deficient cells) reduces RNF168 expression, leading to destabilization of H2AX by E3 ubiquitin ligase SMURF2, resulting in higher levels of spontaneous and genotoxic-agent-induced DNA damage. shRNA knockdown of PRMT5/RNF168/SMURF2, co-immunoprecipitation to show RNF168 and SMURF2 interactions with H2AX, H2AX stability assays, DNA damage measurement in MTAP-deficient glioblastoma cells Cell reports Medium 31533041
2021 MAT2A inhibition reduces SAM levels, which attenuates PRMT5 activity, causing widespread splicing perturbations (particularly of cell cycle genes) and subsequent DNA damage and mitotic defects in MTAP-null cells. Potent MAT2A inhibitor characterization, RNA sequencing, proteomics, measurement of SAM levels, DNA damage and mitotic defect assays in HCT116 MTAP-/- cells Cancer cell High 33450196
2021 PRMT5 inhibition causes widespread disruption of mRNA splicing across the transcriptome in glioblastoma, particularly affecting cell cycle gene products, consistent with its role in methylating spliceosome components. Pharmacological inhibition with two orthogonal PRMT5 inhibitors (GSK591 and LLY-283), RNA sequencing of 46 patient-derived GBM stem cell cultures, in vivo brain-penetrant inhibitor study Nature communications High 33579912
2021 PRMT5 inhibition in GBM neurospheres causes G1 cell cycle arrest through upregulation of p27 and hypophosphorylation of retinoblastoma protein, leading to senescence. Chromatin immunoprecipitation revealed that PRMT5 regulates PTEN expression in GBM neurospheres via methylation, controlling Akt and ERK activity; PTEN is identified as a downstream target of PRMT5 in GBM neurospheres. shRNA knockdown, Human Phospho-Kinase Array, chromatin immunoprecipitation-PCR for PTEN promoter, cell cycle analysis, in vivo intracranial tumor model Oncogene Medium 27292259
2018 PRMT5 methylates histone H4R3 (H4R3me2s) to catalyze symmetric methylation critical for oligodendrocyte differentiation and developmental myelination. Decreased H4R3me2s upon PRMT5 loss is followed by increased nuclear H4K5 acetylation; pharmacological inhibition of histone acetyltransferases rescues the differentiation defect, establishing a cross-talk between histone arginine methylation and lysine acetylation. Pharmacological inhibition, CRISPR/Cas9 knockout, conditional genetic ablation (Prmt5 conditional KO in progenitors), histone modification analysis with purified histones, differentiation/survival assays in oligodendrocyte progenitors and mice Nature communications High 30026560
2021 Arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 directly binds cGAS and catalyzes symmetric dimethylation of cGAS at Arg124 (R124). This methylation attenuates cGAS-mediated antiviral immune response by blocking the DNA-binding ability of cGAS. Co-immunoprecipitation (PRMT5–cGAS interaction), in vitro methylation assay identifying R124, DNA-binding assay showing blockade, in vivo HSV-1 infection model with PRMT5 inhibitors Science advances Medium 33762328
2022 PRMT5 inhibition in lung cancer reduces symmetric dimethylation of histone H4R3 (H4R3me2s) at the CD274 (PD-L1) promoter locus, thereby de-repressing CD274 gene expression and increasing PD-L1 on tumor cells, activating the PD1/PD-L1 axis and eliminating CD8+ T cell anti-tumor immunity. ChIP analysis of H4R3me2s at CD274 promoter, shRNA knockdown, PRMT5 inhibitor treatment, in vitro and in vivo measurement of PD-L1 expression Frontiers in immunology Medium 35111150
2022 PRMT5 methylates KEAP1, downregulating NRF2 and its downstream targets. In TNBC with high ferrous levels, this PRMT5-mediated NRF2 suppression inhibits the HMOX1 pathway and promotes ferroptosis resistance by slowing ferrous import. Biochemical assays for KEAP1 methylation by PRMT5, co-IP, measurement of NRF2 targets and cellular ferrous levels, ferroptosis assays in TNBC vs non-TNBC cells Journal for immunotherapy of cancer Medium 37380368
2022 PRMT5 promotes ALKBH5 nuclear translocation by methylating ALKBH5 at an arginine residue, enhancing ALKBH5-mediated removal of m6A methylation from BRCA1 mRNA, stabilizing BRCA1 mRNA, increasing DNA repair competency, and decreasing doxorubicin efficacy in breast cancer cells. PRMT5 inhibition and shRNA knockdown, m6A quantification, ALKBH5 subcellular fractionation/localization, BRCA1 mRNA stability measurement, DNA repair assays Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy Medium 35278676
2022 PRMT5 interacts with SMAD4 and methylates it at R361 upon TGF-β1 treatment. R361 methylation is required for SMAD complex formation and nuclear import, driving EMT and colorectal cancer metastasis. SMAD4 R361A mutation abolishes PRMT5/TGF-β1-induced metastasis. Mass spectrometry identification of R361 methylation, co-immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence, SMAD complex formation assay, nuclear import assay, EMT and metastasis assays with mutant SMAD4 Oncogene Medium 36991117
2021 PRMT5 functionally associates with EZH2 (confirmed by co-IP and GST pulldown). PRMT5 deposits H4R3me2s and H3R8me2s marks at the CDKN2B promoter; knockdown reduces these marks and the accompanying CpG methylation, reactivating CDKN2B expression. PRMT5 interaction with EZH2 leads to enhanced EZH2 binding and H3K27me3 at the CDKN2B locus. Co-immunoprecipitation, GST pulldown, ChIP assay (H4R3me2s, H3R8me2s, H3K27me3 at CDKN2B promoter), bisulfite sequencing, luciferase reporter Theranostics Medium 33664859
2019 PRMT5 is required for B cell development and antibody responses in mice. PRMT5 prevents p53-dependent blocks at the Pro-B cell stage and p53-independent apoptosis in mature B cells during activation; it promotes germinal center expansion and ensures RNA splicing fidelity in germinal center B cells. Conditional B cell-specific Prmt5 knockout mice, flow cytometry, RNA-seq (splicing analysis), p53-dependency tested by genetic crosses Nature communications High 30604754
2019 Zebrafish Prmt5 methylates germ cell-specific proteins Zili and Vasa (symmetric dimethylarginine) as well as histones H3R8me2s and H4R3me2s. Loss of Prmt5 reduces methylation of these substrates in gonads, downregulates Piwi pathway proteins, and causes germ cell apoptosis and failure of gonadal differentiation, leading to infertile male phenotype. Prmt5-null zebrafish model, immunostaining for H3R8me2s and H4R3me2s, western blot for Zili/Vasa methylation, gene expression analysis of meiosis/gonad genes Development (Cambridge, England) Medium 31533925
2020 PRMT5 deletion in T cells reduces expression of the common gamma chain (γc), impairing IL-7-mediated survival and IL-2-mediated TCR-induced proliferation. PRMT5 is required for NKT cell development and peripheral T cell maintenance, homeostatic survival, and lymphopenic expansion in vivo. T cell-specific conditional PRMT5 knockout mice, flow cytometry, in vitro cytokine signaling assays, in vivo lymphopenic expansion model Frontiers in immunology Medium 32328070
2015 PRMT5 methylates arginine residues in the third intracellular loop of the human D2 dopamine receptor. Mutation of these arginine residues reduces D2 receptor-mediated inhibition of cAMP signaling in HEK293T cells. In C. elegans, PRMT5 (prmt-5) promotes dopamine-mediated modulation of chemosensory and locomotory behaviors through the DOP-3 receptor. In vitro methylation assay of D2 receptor peptide by PRMT5, arginine-to-alanine mutagenesis of receptor, cAMP signaling assay in HEK293T cells, behavioral assays in prmt-5 C. elegans mutants Science signaling Medium 26554819
2017 Menin and PRMT5 cooperate to suppress GLP1 receptor (GLP1R) transcript levels. In β-cells, PRMT5 (together with menin) suppresses PKA-mediated phosphorylation of FOXO1 and CREB downstream of GLP1 signaling, likely through arginine methyltransferase activity. Co-immunoprecipitation of menin-PRMT5 complex, gene expression analysis, phosphorylation assays for FOXO1 and CREB, small-molecule menin inhibitor rescue, ex vivo islet assays American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism Low 28270438
2021 PRMT5 inhibition disrupts splicing of the ATF4 transcript, producing intron-retaining ATF4 mRNA that is detained in the nucleus, reducing cytoplasmic spliced ATF4 protein, downregulating ATF4 target genes, increasing oxidative stress, and inducing cellular senescence in AML cells. RNA sequencing, nuclear/cytoplasmic fractionation of ATF4 mRNA, ROS measurement, senescence assays, PRMT5 inhibitor treatment Redox biology Medium 35305370
2023 PRMT5 symmetrically dimethylates MST2 (STK3) at R461 and R467 in its SARAH domain. This methylation suppresses MST2 autophosphorylation and kinase activity by blocking its homodimerization, inactivating the Hippo signaling pathway and promoting pancreatic cancer progression. In vitro methylation assay identifying R461/R467, co-immunoprecipitation, MST2 autophosphorylation assay, homodimerization assay, PRMT5 inhibitor (GSK3326595) in xenograft models The EMBO journal Medium 37905571
2022 PRMT5 promotes symmetric dimethylation of NF-κB p65 at arginine 30 (R30) in vascular smooth muscle cells, leading to upregulation of VCAM-1 expression and macrophage adhesion. TMAO-induced Nox4-mediated ROS production drives PRMT5 expression, establishing a Nox4-PRMT5-VCAM-1 axis in TMAO-induced vascular inflammation. PRMT5 knockdown, VSMC-specific PRMT5 knockout mice, methylation assay of p65-R30, VCAM-1 expression and macrophage adhesion assays, ROS measurement Cell death & disease Medium 35379776
2024 In cardiac fibroblasts, TGF-β stimulation promotes recruitment of a PRMT5/Smad3 complex to the α-SMA (ACTA2) promoter, increasing PRMT5-mediated H3R2 symmetric dimethylation. This mark is recognized by the WDR5/MLL1 methyltransferase complex, which then increases H3K4 trimethylation, enabling fibrotic gene transcription. Fibroblast-specific PRMT5 deletion reduces pressure overload-induced cardiac fibrosis in mice. ChIP assay of H3R2me2s at α-SMA promoter, Smad3 knockdown reducing H3R2me2s, co-IP of PRMT5/Smad3 complex, fibroblast-specific conditional KO mice, pressure overload model Nature communications High 38503742
2023 PRMT5 methylates FoxO1 (symmetric dimethylarginine), destabilizing it. PRMT5 knockout in myoblasts increases total FoxO1 protein and promotes its cytoplasmic accumulation, activating autophagy and depleting lipid droplets, impairing muscle regeneration. Systemic autophagy inhibition in Prmt5MKO mice restores lipid droplets and moderately improves muscle regeneration. Myod1Cre-driven Prmt5 conditional KO mice, FoxO1 methylation and stability assays, subcellular fractionation, autophagy flux assays, lipid droplet quantification, genetic autophagy inhibition rescue Cell reports Medium 37883229
2023 PRMT5 methylates SREBP1a at arginine residues, increasing its stability. Skeletal muscle-specific PRMT5 knockout reduces SREBP1a dimethylation and stability, impairing de novo lipogenesis. PRMT5 deletion also de-represses the Pnpla2 (ATGL) promoter via reduced H4R3me2s, elevating ATGL-mediated lipolysis. Double knockout of Pnpla2 and Prmt5 normalizes muscle mass and function. Skeletal muscle-specific Prmt5 KO mice, SREBP1a methylation and stability assays, ChIP of H4R3me2s at Pnpla2 promoter, double KO genetic rescue EMBO reports Medium 37334900
2024 TBL2 acts as a scaffolding protein that promotes PRMT5-WDR77 (MEP50) interaction. This enhanced interaction increases PRMT5 methyltransferase activity and AKT phosphorylation, promoting breast cancer cell proliferation. Proteomic analysis, co-immunoprecipitation of TBL2-PRMT5-WDR77 complex, methyltransferase activity assay, AKT phosphorylation measurement, in vitro and in vivo proliferation assays Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) Medium 39499734
2025 PRMT5 catalyzes symmetric dimethylation of GPX4 at the conserved R152 residue. This methylation prolongs GPX4 half-life by preventing Cullin1-FBW7 E3 ligase binding to GPX4, thereby blocking ubiquitination-mediated GPX4 degradation and suppressing ferroptosis in cancer cells. In vitro methylation assay of GPX4-R152 by PRMT5, GPX4 half-life measurement, co-immunoprecipitation of GPX4 with FBW7 (with and without methylation), ubiquitination assay, PRMT5 inhibitor in vivo tumor models Nature cell biology High 40033101
2025 PRMT5 directly catalyzes symmetric dimethylation of ALKBH5 at R316 (meR316-ALKBH5), enhancing TRIM28-mediated ALKBH5 ubiquitination and degradation. Reduced ALKBH5 decreases m6A demethylation of the CD276 transcript 3' UTR, increasing CD276 mRNA stability and expression, facilitating colorectal cancer immune evasion by inhibiting cytotoxic T-cell function. In vitro methylation assay identifying R316, co-IP of ALKBH5 with TRIM28, ubiquitination assay, m6A quantification on CD276 transcript, mRNA stability assay, in vivo and in vitro immune evasion assays Research (Washington, D.C.) Medium 39781264
2021 PRMT5 regulates PRMT5-mediated dimethylation of Zili (PIWI protein) and Vasa in zebrafish gonads, controls Piwi pathway protein expression, and thereby governs germ cell development; these represent direct non-histone substrates of PRMT5 in vertebrate germline. Prmt5-null zebrafish, immunostaining for symmetric arginine dimethylation of Zili/Vasa, gene expression profiling Development (Cambridge, England) Medium 31533925
2023 STC2 interacts with PRMT5 and activates it, leading to increased H4R3me2s. Activated PRMT5 promotes DNA double-strand break repair through both homologous recombination and non-homologous end joining pathways, and participates in SLC7A11-mediated ferroptosis resistance in a PRMT5-dependent manner in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Co-immunoprecipitation of STC2-PRMT5, H4R3me2s western blot, DNA repair pathway assays (HR and NHEJ), SLC7A11 expression assays, in vivo validation Redox biology Medium 36764215
2021 PRMT5 inhibition in multiple myeloma de-represses CASP1 expression (negatively correlated with PRMT5 levels), leading to CASP1-dependent pyroptosis. PRMT5 silences CASP1 via its histone methyltransferase activity (H4R3me2s). PRMT5 knockdown, PRMT5 inhibitor treatment, CASP1 expression measurement, pyroptosis markers (N-GSDMD, IL-1b, IL-18), correlation of PRMT5 and CASP1 expression Cell death & disease Low 34531375
2023 PRMT5 methylates KLF5 at arginine 41 (R41) in a methyltransferase-activity-dependent manner. This dimethylation stabilizes KLF5 protein by promoting the Akt/GSK3β signaling axis, reducing its degradation and maintaining lung cancer cell proliferation. Co-immunoprecipitation (PRMT5-KLF5), in vitro methylation assay (R41 site), protein stability assays, KLF5 downstream target analysis, in vivo xenograft with PRMT5 inhibition Journal of cellular and molecular medicine Medium 37461162
2025 MST4 kinase, transactivated by NRF2, phosphorylates PRMT5 at S439 and S463 and promotes PRMT5 interaction with METTL3, stimulating PRMT5's methyltransferase activity. PRMT5 then methylates METTL3 at R36 (METTL3-R36me2); this methylation recruits METTL3 to DNA damage sites, promoting RAD51 recruitment for HR-mediated double-strand break repair and cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer. In vitro phosphorylation assay (MST4 on PRMT5), co-IP showing increased PRMT5-METTL3 interaction upon phosphorylation, methylation assay identifying R36, ChIP showing METTL3 recruitment to DSB sites, RAD51 foci assay, xenograft model Cell reports Medium 40158218
2023 PRMT5-mediated methylation of G3BP2 at R468 (G3BP2-R468me2) enhances G3BP2 binding to the deubiquitinase USP7, promoting deubiquitination and stabilization of G3BP2, which activates ACLY and stimulates de novo lipogenesis and tumorigenesis in head and neck squamous carcinoma. Co-IP of G3BP2-USP7 interaction with and without PRMT5, methylation assay identifying R468, ubiquitination/deubiquitination assay, ACLY activity assay, lipogenesis measurement Cell death & disease Medium 36878903
2023 PRMT5 inhibition in breast cancer stem cells disrupts splicing of DNA repair genes involved in Fanconi Anemia and homologous recombination pathways (including ATM, DDX11, EXO1, FAN1, SLX4, ATR, RAD17, RAD51D, RUVBL1), causing nuclear retention of intron-containing transcripts and production of non-canonical isoforms with compromised protein function rather than gene expression repression. RNA sequencing of PRMT5-inhibited BCSCs vs bulk cells, identification of skipped exon and retained intron events, nuclear vs cytoplasmic fractionation of transcripts, apoptosis assays Oncogene Medium 39695328
2021 PRMT5 promotes vascular morphogenesis in zebrafish through transcriptional control of ETS transcription factors and adhesion proteins in endothelial cells. Using a catalytic dead PRMT5 mutant, it was demonstrated that methyltransferase activity is dispensable for vessel formation but required for blood cell formation; PRMT5 acts as a scaffold protein facilitating chromatin looping to regulate transcription during vascular morphogenesis. Zebrafish prmt5 loss-of-function, catalytic dead PRMT5 mutant rescue experiments, pharmacological methyltransferase inhibition, chromatin conformation assays (reporter gene analysis), ChIP PLoS genetics Medium 34153034
2023 PRMT5 catalyzes symmetric dimethylation of PRMT5 at CAMK2N1's promoter via H4R3me2s and H3R8me2s marks, repressing CAMK2N1 transcription in prostate cancer cells. This silencing promotes prostate cancer progression in vitro and in vivo. ChIP assay of H4R3me2s and H3R8me2s at CAMK2N1 promoter, shRNA knockdown and rescue, PRMT5 inhibitor, in vivo tumor growth assays Molecular cancer Low 35624451
2023 PRMT5 methylates ULK1 at R532 (monomethylation), suppressing ULK1 activation and attenuating autophagy. Loss or inhibition of PRMT5 removes this methylation, activating ULK1 and triggering cytoprotective autophagy. ULK1 inhibition blocks PRMT5-deficiency-induced autophagy and sensitizes cells to PRMT5 inhibitor. In vitro methylation assay (ULK1 R532), ULK1 activity assay, autophagy flux assays, ULK1 inhibitor and genetic ablation epistasis experiments, PRMT5 inhibitor sensitivity assays Scientific reports Medium 37400460
2023 Alpha-synuclein overexpression enhances BAF complex interaction with PRMT5, globally increasing H4R3me2s symmetric dimethylation. This results in H4R3me2s accumulation near the NRCAM transcription start site and negative regulation of NRCAM, a neuronal differentiation gene. ChIP-seq confirmed H4R3me2s accumulation at the NRCAM locus. Mass spectrometry interactome of nuclear alpha-synuclein (identifying BAF-PRMT5 interaction), ChIP-seq for H4R3me2s, transcriptomic analysis of NRCAM The FEBS journal Low 38105619

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Year Title Journal Citations PMID
2016 MTAP deletion confers enhanced dependency on the PRMT5 arginine methyltransferase in cancer cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 535 26912360
2016 Disordered methionine metabolism in MTAP/CDKN2A-deleted cancers leads to dependence on PRMT5. Science (New York, N.Y.) 467 26912361
2015 The PRMT5 arginine methyltransferase: many roles in development, cancer and beyond. Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS 422 25662273
2016 MTAP Deletions in Cancer Create Vulnerability to Targeting of the MAT2A/PRMT5/RIOK1 Axis. Cell reports 364 27068473
1999 The human homologue of the yeast proteins Skb1 and Hsl7p interacts with Jak kinases and contains protein methyltransferase activity. The Journal of biological chemistry 244 10531356
2011 Versatility of PRMT5-induced methylation in growth control and development. Trends in biochemical sciences 234 21975038
2020 PRMT5 control of cGAS/STING and NLRC5 pathways defines melanoma response to antitumor immunity. Science translational medicine 199 32641491
2021 MAT2A Inhibition Blocks the Growth of MTAP-Deleted Cancer Cells by Reducing PRMT5-Dependent mRNA Splicing and Inducing DNA Damage. Cancer cell 189 33450196
2020 PRMT5 function and targeting in cancer. Cell stress 183 32743345
2021 PRMT5 inhibition disrupts splicing and stemness in glioblastoma. Nature communications 141 33579912
2016 PRMT5-PTEN molecular pathway regulates senescence and self-renewal of primary glioblastoma neurosphere cells. Oncogene 117 27292259
2022 Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) Inhibitors in Oncology Clinical Trials: A review. Journal of immunotherapy and precision oncology 107 36034581
2022 PRMT5 regulates RNA m6A demethylation for doxorubicin sensitivity in breast cancer. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 100 35278676
2018 Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) dysregulation in cancer. Oncotarget 92 30613353
2022 PRMT5 activates AKT via methylation to promote tumor metastasis. Nature communications 91 35803962
2018 Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) as an Anticancer Target and Its Inhibitor Discovery. Journal of medicinal chemistry 83 29870258
2020 Discovery of First-in-Class Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) Degraders. Journal of medicinal chemistry 82 32787082
2018 PRMT5-mediated regulation of developmental myelination. Nature communications 82 30026560
2019 PRMT1 loss sensitizes cells to PRMT5 inhibition. Nucleic acids research 80 30916320
2021 PRMT5-mediated arginine methylation activates AKT kinase to govern tumorigenesis. Nature communications 79 34103528
2023 STC2 activates PRMT5 to induce radioresistance through DNA damage repair and ferroptosis pathways in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Redox biology 78 36764215
2021 Molecular basis for substrate recruitment to the PRMT5 methylosome. Molecular cell 77 34358446
2019 PRMT5 is essential for B cell development and germinal center dynamics. Nature communications 73 30604754
2021 Arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 negatively regulates cGAS-mediated antiviral immune response. Science advances 71 33762328
2019 PRMT5 in gene regulation and hematologic malignancies. Genes & diseases 71 32042864
2023 PRMT5 reduces immunotherapy efficacy in triple-negative breast cancer by methylating KEAP1 and inhibiting ferroptosis. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer 69 37380368
2023 PRMT5 methylating SMAD4 activates TGF-β signaling and promotes colorectal cancer metastasis. Oncogene 68 36991117
2021 PRMT5 functionally associates with EZH2 to promote colorectal cancer progression through epigenetically repressing CDKN2B expression. Theranostics 68 33664859
2014 Expression of PRMT5 in lung adenocarcinoma and its significance in epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Human pathology 68 24775604
2023 Targeting Arginine Methyltransferase PRMT5 for Cancer Therapy: Updated Progress and Novel Strategies. Journal of medicinal chemistry 67 37366223
1996 The highly conserved skb1 gene encodes a protein that interacts with Shk1, a fission yeast Ste20/PAK homolog. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 64 8943016
1998 Negative regulation of mitosis in fission yeast by the shk1 interacting protein skb1 and its human homolog, Skb1Hs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 63 9843966
2018 Targeting PRMT5/Akt signalling axis prevents human lung cancer cell growth. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 60 30461193
2017 PRMT5-Selective Inhibitors Suppress Inflammatory T Cell Responses and Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 58 28087667
2020 PRMT5 promotes DNA repair through methylation of 53BP1 and is regulated by Src-mediated phosphorylation. Communications biology 57 32759981
2021 The Structure and Functions of PRMT5 in Human Diseases. Life (Basel, Switzerland) 54 34685445
2024 A phase I study to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of PF-06939999 (PRMT5 inhibitor) in patients with selected advanced or metastatic tumors with high incidence of splicing factor gene mutations. ESMO open 44 38640748
2021 PRMT5: a putative oncogene and therapeutic target in prostate cancer. Cancer gene therapy 43 33854218
2022 PRMT5 Inhibition Promotes PD-L1 Expression and Immuno-Resistance in Lung Cancer. Frontiers in immunology 41 35111150
2020 PRMT5 Is Required for T Cell Survival and Proliferation by Maintaining Cytokine Signaling. Frontiers in immunology 41 32328070
2019 Nucleoside protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) inhibitors. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 40 30956011
2018 LKB1 regulates PRMT5 activity in breast cancer. International journal of cancer 40 30289978
2022 The circSPON2/miR-331-3p axis regulates PRMT5, an epigenetic regulator of CAMK2N1 transcription and prostate cancer progression. Molecular cancer 39 35624451
2019 A PRMT5-RNF168-SMURF2 Axis Controls H2AX Proteostasis. Cell reports 37 31533041
2025 PRMT5-mediated arginine methylation stabilizes GPX4 to suppress ferroptosis in cancer. Nature cell biology 36 40033101
2020 PRMT5 promotes cancer cell migration and invasion through the E2F pathway. Cell death & disease 36 32709847
2001 The highly conserved protein methyltransferase, Skb1, is a mediator of hyperosmotic stress response in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The Journal of biological chemistry 36 11278267
2022 PRMT5 critically mediates TMAO-induced inflammatory response in vascular smooth muscle cells. Cell death & disease 35 35379776
2022 Medicinal chemistry strategies targeting PRMT5 for cancer therapy. European journal of medicinal chemistry 34 36274274
2021 PRMT5 regulates colorectal cancer cell growth and EMT via EGFR/Akt/GSK3β signaling cascades. Aging 34 33495409
2022 PRMT5 regulates ATF4 transcript splicing and oxidative stress response. Redox biology 33 35305370
2017 The Structure and Function of the PRMT5:MEP50 Complex. Sub-cellular biochemistry 32 28271477
2022 Flavokawain A is a natural inhibitor of PRMT5 in bladder cancer. Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR 28 36199122
2017 Menin and PRMT5 suppress GLP1 receptor transcript and PKA-mediated phosphorylation of FOXO1 and CREB. American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism 28 28270438
2023 Combined inhibition of MTAP and MAT2a mimics synthetic lethality in tumor models via PRMT5 inhibition. The Journal of biological chemistry 27 38000655
2022 Epigenetic drug screening defines a PRMT5 inhibitor-sensitive pancreatic cancer subtype. JCI insight 27 35439169
2021 PRMT5 regulates cell pyroptosis by silencing CASP1 in multiple myeloma. Cell death & disease 27 34531375
2023 PRMT5 supports multiple oncogenic pathways in mantle cell lymphoma. Blood 26 37267517
2023 MST2 methylation by PRMT5 inhibits Hippo signaling and promotes pancreatic cancer progression. The EMBO journal 26 37905571
2019 Zebrafish prmt5 arginine methyltransferase is essential for germ cell development. Development (Cambridge, England) 26 31533925
2024 Fibroblast-specific PRMT5 deficiency suppresses cardiac fibrosis and left ventricular dysfunction in male mice. Nature communications 25 38503742
2024 Targeting PRMT5 through PROTAC for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer. Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR 24 39614393
2023 PRMT5 mediates FoxO1 methylation and subcellular localization to regulate lipophagy in myogenic progenitors. Cell reports 24 37883229
2021 PRMT5: An Emerging Target for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. Cancers 23 34680285
2015 The protein arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 promotes D2-like dopamine receptor signaling. Science signaling 23 26554819
2022 Development of Macrocyclic PRMT5-Adaptor Protein Interaction Inhibitors. Journal of medicinal chemistry 22 36378254
2021 PRMT5 promotes colorectal cancer growth by interaction with MCM7. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 22 33675123
2023 The Role of PRMT5 in Immuno-Oncology. Genes 21 36980950
2022 Discovery and Biological Characterization of PRMT5:MEP50 Protein-Protein Interaction Inhibitors. Journal of medicinal chemistry 21 36206451
2025 PRMT5-Mediated ALKBH5 Methylation Promotes Colorectal Cancer Immune Evasion via Increasing CD276 Expression. Research (Washington, D.C.) 20 39781264
2023 A patent review of PRMT5 inhibitors to treat cancer (2018 - present). Expert opinion on therapeutic patents 20 37072380
2024 Role of PRMT1 and PRMT5 in Breast Cancer. International journal of molecular sciences 19 39201539
2023 USP7- and PRMT5-dependent G3BP2 stabilization drives de novo lipogenesis and tumorigenesis of HNSC. Cell death & disease 19 36878903
2022 PRMT5 Interacting Partners and Substrates in Oligodendrocyte Lineage Cells. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 19 35370564
2024 Identification of PRMT5 as a therapeutic target in cholangiocarcinoma. Gut 18 39266051
2024 A review of the known MTA-cooperative PRMT5 inhibitors. RSC advances 18 39691229
2013 Histone H4R3 methylation catalyzed by SKB1/PRMT5 is required for maintaining shoot apical meristem. PloS one 18 24349476
2025 PRMT5 K240lac confers ferroptosis resistance via ALKBH5/SLC7A11 axis in colorectal cancer. Oncogene 17 40447754
2023 PRMT5 Facilitates Infectious Bursal Disease Virus Replication through Arginine Methylation of VP1. Journal of virology 17 36786602
2023 PRMT5 facilitates angiogenesis and EMT via HIF-1α/VEGFR/Akt signaling axis in lung cancer. Aging 17 37400960
2021 Prmt5 promotes vascular morphogenesis independently of its methyltransferase activity. PLoS genetics 17 34153034
2025 Discovery of AMG 193, an MTA-Cooperative PRMT5 Inhibitor for the Treatment of MTAP-Deleted Cancers. Journal of medicinal chemistry 16 40146197
2024 PRMT5 activates lipid metabolic reprogramming via MYC contributing to the growth and survival of mantle cell lymphoma. Cancer letters 15 38615930
2023 Protein arginine methyltransferases PRMT1, PRMT4/CARM1 and PRMT5 have distinct functions in control of osteoblast differentiation. Bone reports 15 37593409
2024 Medicinal chemistry insights into PRMT5 inhibitors. Bioorganic chemistry 14 39378783
2024 PRMT5-regulated splicing of DNA repair genes drives chemoresistance in breast cancer stem cells. Oncogene 14 39695328
2023 PRMT5 links lipid metabolism to contractile function of skeletal muscles. EMBO reports 14 37334900
2023 PRMT5 activates KLF5 by methylation to facilitate lung cancer. Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 14 37461162
2016 The Protein Arginine Methylase 5 (PRMT5/SKB1) Gene Is Required for the Maintenance of Root Stem Cells in Response to DNA Damage. Journal of genetics and genomics = Yi chuan xue bao 14 27090604
2025 PRMT5-mediated methylation of METTL3 promotes cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer by facilitating DNA repair mechanisms. Cell reports 13 40158218
2024 The interaction between UBR7 and PRMT5 drives PDAC resistance to gemcitabine by regulating glycolysis and immune microenvironment. Cell death & disease 13 39424627
2023 PRMT5 as a Potential Therapeutic Target in MYC-Amplified Medulloblastoma. Cancers 13 38136401
2025 PRMT5 inhibition has a potent anti-tumor activity against adenoid cystic carcinoma of salivary glands. Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR 12 39794830
2023 PRMT5 is a therapeutic target in choroidal neovascularization. Scientific reports 12 36720900
2023 Autophagy dictates sensitivity to PRMT5 inhibitor in breast cancer. Scientific reports 12 37400460
2024 TBL2 Promotes Tumorigenesis via PRMT5/WDR77-Mediated AKT Activation in Breast Cancer. Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 11 39499734
2023 Alpha-synuclein promotes PRMT5-mediated H4R3me2s histone methylation by interacting with the BAF complex. The FEBS journal 11 38105619
2024 Resistance to PRMT5-targeted therapy in mantle cell lymphoma. Blood advances 10 37782774
2022 PRMT1 and PRMT5: on the road of homologous recombination and non-homologous end joining. Genome instability & disease 10 37663901
2024 Identification and validation of anti-protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) antibody as a novel biomarker for systemic sclerosis (SSc). Annals of the rheumatic diseases 9 38684324

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