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Differences in DNA methylation between human neuronal and glial cells are concentrated in enhancers and non-CpG sites.


ABSTRACT: We applied Illumina Human Methylation450K array to perform a genomic-scale single-site resolution DNA methylation analysis in neuronal and nonneuronal (primarily glial) nuclei separated from the orbitofrontal cortex of postmortem human brain. The findings were validated using enhanced reduced representation bisulfite sequencing. We identified thousands of sites differentially methylated (DM) between neuronal and nonneuronal cells. The DM sites were depleted within CpG-island-containing promoters but enriched in predicted enhancers. Classification of the DM sites into those undermethylated in neurons (neuronal type) and those undermethylated in nonneuronal cells (glial type), combined with findings of others that methylation within control elements typically negatively correlates with gene expression, yielded large sets of predicted neuron-specific and non-neuron-specific genes. These sets of predicted genes were in excellent agreement with the available direct measurements of gene expression in human and mouse. We also found a distinct set of DNA methylation patterns that were unique for neuronal cells. In particular, neuronal-type differential methylation was overrepresented in CpG island shores, enriched within gene bodies but not in intergenic regions, and preferentially harbored binding motifs for a distinct set of transcription factors, including neuron-specific activity-dependent factors. Finally, non-CpG methylation was substantially more prevalent in neurons than in nonneuronal cells.

SUBMITTER: Kozlenkov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3874157 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Differences in DNA methylation between human neuronal and glial cells are concentrated in enhancers and non-CpG sites.

Kozlenkov Alexey A   Roussos Panos P   Timashpolsky Alisa A   Barbu Mihaela M   Rudchenko Sergei S   Bibikova Marina M   Klotzle Brandy B   Byne William W   Lyddon Rebecca R   Di Narzo Antonio Fabio AF   Hurd Yasmin L YL   Koonin Eugene V EV   Dracheva Stella S  

Nucleic acids research 20130920 1


We applied Illumina Human Methylation450K array to perform a genomic-scale single-site resolution DNA methylation analysis in neuronal and nonneuronal (primarily glial) nuclei separated from the orbitofrontal cortex of postmortem human brain. The findings were validated using enhanced reduced representation bisulfite sequencing. We identified thousands of sites differentially methylated (DM) between neuronal and nonneuronal cells. The DM sites were depleted within CpG-island-containing promoters  ...[more]

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