Oxidative damage targets complexes containing DNA methyltransferases, SIRT1, and polycomb members to promoter CpG Islands.
Cancer cells simultaneously harbor global losses and gains in DNA methylation. We demonstrate that inducing cellular oxidative stress by hydrogen peroxide treatment recruits DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) to damaged chromatin. DNMT1 becomes part of a complex(es) containing DNMT3B and members of the polycomb repressive complex 4. Hydrogen peroxide treatment causes ... relocalization of these proteins from non-GC-rich to GC-rich areas. Key components are similarly enriched at gene promoters in an in vivo colitis model. Although high-expression genes enriched for members of the complex have histone mark and nascent transcription changes, CpG island-containing low-expression genes gain promoter DNA methylation. Thus, oxidative damage induces formation and relocalization of a silencing complex that may explain cancer-specific aberrant DNA methylation and transcriptional silencing.
Mesh Terms:
Animals, Chromatin, Colitis, CpG Islands, DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferase, DNA Methylation, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Gene Silencing, HCT116 Cells, Histones, Humans, Hydrogen Peroxide, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Molecular Sequence Data, Oxidative Stress, Polycomb-Group Proteins, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Repressor Proteins, Sirtuin 1
Animals, Chromatin, Colitis, CpG Islands, DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferase, DNA Methylation, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Gene Silencing, HCT116 Cells, Histones, Humans, Hydrogen Peroxide, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Molecular Sequence Data, Oxidative Stress, Polycomb-Group Proteins, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Repressor Proteins, Sirtuin 1
Cancer Cell
Date: Nov. 15, 2011
PubMed ID: 22094255
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