UHRF1 and cancer: Taken together, the findings of these studies support the idea that UHRF1 overexpression is one of the primary causes of cancer pathogenesis, and that UHRF1 exerts direct inhibitory effects on various TSGs through a coordinated recruitment of several epigenetic players, namely DNMT1, HDAC1 and G9a, to their correct places on the chromatin to catalyze the right epigenetic mark (Figure 1).