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Gamma irradiation does not induce detectable changes in DNA methylation in exposed human cells

ABSTRACT: Ionizing radiation, released during accidents at nuclear power plants or after atomic bomb explosions, is a potentially serious health threat for the exposed human population. This type of high-energy radiation causes DNA damage including single- and double-strand breaks and induces chromosomal rearrangements and mutations, but it is not known if ionizing radiation directly induces changes in the epigenome of irradiated cells. We treated normal human fibroblasts and normal human bronchial epithelial cells with different doses of gamma-radiation emitted from a cesium 137 (137Cs) radiation source. After a recovery period, we analyzed global DNA methylation patterns in the irradiated and control cells using the methylated-CpG island recovery assay (MIRA) method in combination with high-resolution microarrays. Bioinformatics analysis revealed only a small number of potential methylation changes with low fold-difference ratios in the irradiated cells. These minor methylation differences seen on the microarrays could not be verified by COBRA (combined bisulfite restriction analysis) or bisulfite sequencing of selected target loci. Our study shows that acute gamma-radiation treatment of two types of human cells had no appreciable effect on DNA cytosine methylation patterns in exposed cells. DNA methylation patterns in gamma-irradiated cells and non- treated cells analyzed by microarrays

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Xiwei Wu

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-39038 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Gamma irradiation does not induce detectable changes in DNA methylation directly following exposure of human cells.

Lahtz Christoph C Bates Steven E SE Jiang Yong Y Li Arthur X AX Wu Xiwei X Hahn Maria A MA Pfeifer Gerd P GP

PloS one 20120914 9

Environmental chemicals and radiation have often been implicated in producing alterations of the epigenome thus potentially contributing to cancer and other diseases. Ionizing radiation, released during accidents at nuclear power plants or after atomic bomb explosions, is a potentially serious health threat for the exposed human population. This type of high-energy radiation causes DNA damage including single- and double-strand breaks and induces chromosomal rearrangements and mutations, but it ...[more]

PMID: 23024770

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Project description:Although ionizing radiation has been shown to influence gene transcription, little is known about the effects of radiation on gene translational efficiency. To obtain a genome-wide perspective of the effects of radiation on gene translation, microarray analysis was done on polysome-bound RNA isolated from irradiated human brain tumor cells; to allow for a comparison with the effects of radiation on transcription, microarray analysis was also done using total RNA. The number of genes whose translational activity was modified by radiation was f10-fold greater than those whose transcription was affected. The radiation-induced change in a gene’s translational activity was shown to involve the recruitment of existing mRNAs to and away from polysomes. Moreover, the change in a gene’s translational activity after irradiation correlated with changes in the level of its corresponding protein. These data suggest that radiation modifies gene expression primarily at the level of translation. In contrast to transcriptional changes, there was considerable overlap in the genes affected at the translational level among brain tumor cell lines and normal astrocytes. Thus, the radiation-induced translational control of a subset of mRNAs seems to be a fundamental component of cellular radioresponse. (Cancer Res 2006; 66(2): 1052-61) There are 32 samples in total in this study. Each sample has a technical duplicate (16samples x2). Comparison of radiation-induced gene expression profiles generated from microarray analysis of total and polysome-bound RNA isolated from three brain tumor cell lines U87, SF126, SF539 and normal astrocytes. Cells were irradiated at the dose of 7gy and collected 6 hours later for isolation of total cellar RNA or polysome-bound RNA. Gene expression was directly compared between irradiated and unirradiated control cells for total and polysome RNA. The array labeling is two-dye method. Labeling two dye samples are labeled using CY3 dye. All the human reference RNA from Stratagene are labeled using CY5 dye.

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Gamma irradiation does not induce detectable changes in DNA methylation in exposed human cells

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Gamma irradiation does not induce detectable changes in DNA methylation directly following exposure of human cells.

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