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Active tissue-specific DNA demethylation conferred by somatic cell nuclei in stable heterokaryons.


ABSTRACT: DNA methylation is among the most stable epigenetic marks, ensuring tissue-specific gene expression in a heritable manner throughout development. Here we report that differentiated mesodermal somatic cells can confer tissue-specific changes in DNA methylation on epidermal progenitor cells after fusion in stable multinucleate heterokaryons. Myogenic factors alter regulatory regions of genes in keratinocyte cell nuclei, demethylating and activating a muscle-specific gene and methylating and silencing a keratinocyte-specific gene. Because these changes occur in the absence of DNA replication or cell division, they are mediated by an active mechanism. Thus, the capacity to transfer epigenetic changes to other nuclei is not limited to embryonic stem cells and oocytes but is also a property of highly specialized mammalian somatic cells. These results suggest the possibility of directing the reprogramming of readily available postnatal human progenitor cells toward specific tissue cell types.

SUBMITTER: Zhang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1838613 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Active tissue-specific DNA demethylation conferred by somatic cell nuclei in stable heterokaryons.

Zhang Fan F   Pomerantz Jason H JH   Sen George G   Palermo Adam T AT   Blau Helen M HM  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070307 11


DNA methylation is among the most stable epigenetic marks, ensuring tissue-specific gene expression in a heritable manner throughout development. Here we report that differentiated mesodermal somatic cells can confer tissue-specific changes in DNA methylation on epidermal progenitor cells after fusion in stable multinucleate heterokaryons. Myogenic factors alter regulatory regions of genes in keratinocyte cell nuclei, demethylating and activating a muscle-specific gene and methylating and silenc  ...[more]

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