DNA methylation profile of the mouse skeletal α-actin promoter during development and differentiation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 164-172

  Warnecke, Peter M ^a   Clark, Susan J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032906457     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.1.164     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Altschul, S. F., T. L. Madden, A. A. Schaffer, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, W. Miller, and D. J. Lipman. 1997. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database. Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389-3402.
2. Bird, A. P. 1993. Functions for DNA methylation in vertebrates. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 58:281-285.
3. Clark, S. J., J. Harrison, C. L. Paul, and M. Frommer. 1994. High sensitivity mapping of methylated cytosines. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:2990-2997.
4. Cooper, D. N., L. H. Errington, and R. M. Clayton. 1983. Variation in the DNA methylation pattern of expressed and nonexpressed genes in chicken. DNA 2:131-140.
5. Gruenbaum, Y., H. Cedar, and A. Razin. 1982. Substrate and sequence specificity of a eukaryotic DNA methylase. Nature 295:620-622.
6. Hjelle, B. L., J. A. Phillips III, and P. H. Seeburg. 1982. Relative levels of methylation in human growth hormone and chorionic somatomammotropin genes in expressing and non-expressing tissues. Nucleic Acids Res. 10:3459-3474.
7. Holliday, R., and J. E. Pugh. 1975. DNA modification mechanisms and gene activity during development. Science 187:226-232.
8. Hu, M. C., S. B. Sharp, and N. Davidson. 1986. The complete sequence of the mouse skeletal α-actin gene reveals several conserved and inverted repeat sequences outside of the protein-coding region. Mol. Cell. Biol. 6:15-25.
9. Issa, J.-P. J., Y. L. Ottaviano, P. Celano, S. R. Hamilton, N. E. Davidson, and S. B. Baylin. 1994. Methylation of the oestrogen receptor CpG island links ageing and neoplasia in human colon. Nat. Genet. 7:536-540.
10. Jones, P. A., and M. L. Gonzalgo. 1997. Altered DNA methylation and genome instability: a new pathway to cancer? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:2103-2105.
11. Jones, R. E., D. DeFeo, and J. Piatigorsky. 1981. Transcription and site-specific hypomethylation of the δ-crystallin genes in the embryonic chicken lens. J. Biol. Chem. 256:8172-8176.
12. Jost, J. P., H. P. Saluz, I. McEwan, I. M. Feavers, M. Hughes, S. Reiber, H. M. Liang, and M. Vaccaro. 1990. Tissue specific expression of avian vitellogenin gene is correlated with DNA hypomethylation and in vivo specific protein-DNA interactions. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B 326:231-240.
13. Kafri, T., M. Ariel, M. Brandeis, R. Shemer, L. Urven, J. McCarrey, H. Cedar, and A. Razin. 1992. Developmental pattern of gene-specific DNA methylation in the mouse embryo and germ line. Genes Dev. 6:705-714.
14. Kass, S. U., D. Pruss, and A. P. Wolffe. 1997. How does DNA methylation repress transcription? Trends Genet. 13:444-449.
15. Kim, K., M. Febbraio, T. Han, T. C. Wessel, D. H. Park, and T. H. Joh. 1995. Analysis of gene expression by blotting techniques. p. 151-182. In B. D. Hames and S. J. Higgins (ed.). Gene probes 2: a practical approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.
16. Li, E., T. H. Bestor, and R. Jaenisch. 1992. Targeted mutation of the DNA methyltransferase gene results in embryonic lethality. Cell 69:915-926.
17. Melloul, D., B. Aloni, J. Calvo, D. Yaffe, and U. Nudel. 1984. Developmentally regulated expression of chimeric genes containing muscle actin DNA sequences in transfected myogenic cells. EMBO J. 3:983-990.
18. Monk, M. 1990. Changes in DNA methylation during mouse embryonic development in relation to X-chromosome activity and imprinting. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B 326:299-312.
19. Okuse, K., I. Matsuoka, and K. Kurihara. 1997. Tissue-specific methylation occurs in the essential promoter element of the tyrosine hydroxylase gene. Mol. Brain Res. 46:197-207.
20. Paroush, Z., I. Keshet, J. Yisraeli, and H. Cedar. 1990. Dynamics of demethylation and activation of the alpha-actin gene in myoblasts. Cell 63: 1229-1237.
21. Peek, R., R. W. L. M. Niessen, J. G. G. Schoenmakers, and N. H. Lubsen. 1991. DNA methylation as a regulatory mechanism in rat γ-crystallin gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res. 19:77-83.
22. Razin, A., and A. D. Riggs. 1980. DNA methylation and gene function. Science 210:604-610.
23. Riggs, A. D. 1975. X inactivation, differentiation and DNA methylation. Cytogenet. Cell. Genet. 14:9-25.
24. Riggs, A. D., Z. Xiong, L. Wang, and J. M. LeBon. 1998. Methylation dynamics, epigenetic fidelity and X chromosome structure. Novartis Found. Symp. 214:214-225.
25. Salvatore, P., G. Benvenuto, M. Caporaso, C. B. Bruni, and L. Chiariotti. 1998. High resolution methylation analysis of the galectin-1 gene promoter region in expressing and nonexpressing tissues. FEBS Lett. 421:152-158.
26. Sassoon, D. A., I. Garner, and M. Buckingham. 1988. Transcripts of α-cardiac and α-skeletal actins are early markers for myogenesis in the mouse embryo. Development 104:155-164.
27. Shani, M., S. Admon, and D. Yaffe. 1984. The methylation state of 2 muscle-specific genes: restriction enzyme analysis did not detect a correlation with expression. Nucleic Acids Res. 12:7225-7234.
28. Shemer, R., T. Kafri, A. O'Connell, S. Eisenberg, J. L. Breslow, and A. Razin. 1991. Methylation changes in the apolipoprotein AI gene during embryonic development of the mouse. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88:11300-11304.
29. Szyf, M., D. S. Milstone, B. P. Schimmer, K. L. Parker, and J. G. Seidman. 1990. Cis modification of the steroid 21-hydroxylase gene prevents its expression in the Y1 mouse adenocortical tumour cell line. Mol. Endocrinol. 4:1144-1152.
30. Taylor, K. D., and L. Piko. 1990. Quantitative changes in cytoskeletal beta-and gamma-actin mRNAs and apparent absence of sarcomeric actin gene transcripts in early mouse embryos. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 26:111-121.
31. Tremblay, K. D., K. L. Duran, and M. S. Bartolomei. 1997. A 5′ 2-kilobase-pair region of the imprinted mouse H19 gene exhibits exclusive paternal methylation throughout development. Mol. Cell. Biol. 17:4322-4329.
32. van der Ploeg, L. H. T., and R. A. Flavell. 1980. DNA methylation in the human γδβ-globin locus in erythroid and nonerythroid tissues. Cell 19:947-958.
33. Warnecke, P. M., D. Biniszkiewicz, R. Jaenisch, M. Frommer, and S. J. Clark. 1998. Methylation patterns of H19 imprinting region in DNA methyltransferase null mutant and rescued ES cells. Dev. Genet. 22:111-121.
34. Warnecke, P. M., J. R. Mann, M. Frommer, and S. J. Clark. 1998. Bisulphite sequencing in preimplantation embryos: DNA methylation profile of the upstream region of the mouse imprinted H19 gene. Genomics 51:182-190.
35. Warnecke, P. M., C. Stirzaker, J. R. Melki, D. S. Millar, C. L. Paul, and S. J. Clark. 1997. Detection and measurement of PCR bias in quantitative methylation analysis of bisulphite-treated DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 25:4422-4426.
36. Yisraeli, J., R. S. Adelstein, D. Melloul, U. Nudel, D. Yaffe, and H. Cedar. 1986. Muscle-specific activation of a methylated chimeric actin gene. Cell 46:409-416.
37. Yoder, J. A., C. P. Walsh, and T. H. Bestor. 1997. Cytosine methylation and the ecology of intragenomic parasites. Trends Genet. 13:335-340.