Methylation profiling

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Genes controlling the activation of natural killer lymphocytes are epigenetically remodeled in intestinal cells from germ-free mice


ABSTRACT: Remodeling of the gut microbiota is implicated in various metabolic and inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. We hypothesized that the gut microbiota affects the DNA methylation profile of intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) which could, in turn, alter intestinal function. Here, we used mass spectrometry and methylated DNA capture to respectively investigate global and genome-wide DNA methylation of intestinal epithelial cells from germ-free (GF) and conventionally raised mice (CONV-R). In colonic IECs from GF mice, DNA was markedly hypermethylated. This was associated with a dramatic loss of Ten-Eleven-Translocation activity, a lower DNA methyltransferase activity and lower circulating levels of the one carbon metabolites cobalamin and folate. At the gene level, we found an enrichment for differentially methylated regions at proximity of genes regulating cytotoxicity of Natural Killer cells (FDR < 8.9E-6), notably members of the natural killer group 2 member D ligand superfamily Raet. Our results suggest that altered activity of methylation-modifying enzymes in GF mice influences the IEC epigenome at genes involved in the crosstalk between intestinal and immune cells. Epigenetic reprogramming of IECs by the gut microbiota may modulate intestinal function in diseases associated with altered gut microbiota.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE117434 | GEO | 2019/01/23

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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