Overexpression of Human-Derived DNMT3A Induced Intergenerational Inheritance of Active DNA Methylation Changes in Rat Sperm

doi:10.3339/fgene.2017.00207

	Overexpression of Human-Derived DNMT3A Induced Intergenerational Inheritance of Active DNA Methylation Changes in Rat Sperm
	Zheng, Xiaoguo 1; Li, Zhenhua 1; Wang, Guishuan 1; Li, Zhengzheng 1; Liang, Ajuan 2; Wang, Hanshu 1; Dai, Yubing 1; Huang, Xingxu3 ; Chen, Xuejin 4; Ma, Yuanwu 5; Sun, Fei 1
	2017-12-12
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
ISSN	1664-8021
卷号	8
发表状态	已发表
DOI	10.3339/fgene.2017.00207
摘要	DNA methylation is the major focus of studies on paternal epigenetic inheritance in mammals, but most previous studies about inheritable DNA methylation changes are passively induced by environmental factors. However, it is unclear whether the active changes mediated by variations in DNA methyltransferase activity are heritable. Here, we established human-derived DNMT3A (hDNMT3A) transgenic rats to study the effect of hDNMT3A overexpression on the DNA methylation pattern of rat sperm and to investigate whether this actively altered DNA methylation status is inheritable. Our results revealed that hDNMT3A was overexpressed in the testis of transgenic rats and induced genome-wide alterations in the DNA methylation pattern of rat sperm. Among 5438 reliable loci identified with 64 primer-pair combinations using a methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphism method, 28.01% showed altered amplified band types. Among these amplicons altered loci, 68.42% showed an altered DNA methylation status in the offspring of transgenic rats compared with wild-type rats. Further analysis based on loci which had identical DNA methylation status in all three biological replicates revealed that overexpression of hDNMT3A in paternal testis induced hypermethylation in sperm of both genotype-negative and genotype-positive offspring. Among the differentially methylated loci, 34.26% occurred in both positive and negative offspring of transgenic rats, indicating intergenerational inheritance of active DNA methylation changes in the absence of hDNM3A transmission. Furthermore, 75.07% of the inheritable loci were hyper-methylated while the remaining were hypomethylated. Distribution analysis revealed that the DNA methylation variations mainly occurred in introns and intergenic regions. Functional analysis revealed that genes related to differentially methylated loci were involved in a wide range of functions. Finally, this study demonstrated that active DNA methylation changes induced by hDNMT3A expression were intergenerationally inherited by offspring without transmission of the transgene, which provided evidence for the transmission of active endogenous-factors-induced epigenetic variations.
关键词	human-derived DNMT3A DNA methylation sperm rat intergenerational inheritance
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, China[17ZR1433100]
WOS研究方向	Genetics & Heredity
WOS类目	Genetics & Heredity
WOS记录号	WOS:000417740800001
出版者	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
WOS关键词	HUMAN HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA ; EMBRYONIC STEM-CELLS ; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYOS ; METHYLTRANSFERASES 1 ; ISLAND METHYLATION ; CHROMATIN STATE ; GERM-CELLS ; EXPRESSION ; 3A ; MAMMALS
原始文献类型	Article
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://kms.shanghaitech.edu.cn/handle/2MSLDSTB/14286
专题	生命科学与技术学院_PI研究组_黄行许组
通讯作者	Ma, Yuanwu; Sun, Fei
作者单位	1.Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Inst Embryo Fetal Original Adult Dis, Sch Med, Int Peace Matern & Child Hlth Hosp, Shanghai, Peoples R China 2.Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Med, Renji Hosp, Ctr Reprod Med, Shanghai, Peoples R China 3.ShanghaiTech Univ, Sch Life Sci & Technol, Shanghai, Peoples R China 4.Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Dept Lab Anim Sci, Sch Med, Shanghai, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Med Sci, Inst Lab Anim Sci, Key Lab Human Dis Comparat Med, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zheng, Xiaoguo,Li, Zhenhua,Wang, Guishuan,et al. Overexpression of Human-Derived DNMT3A Induced Intergenerational Inheritance of Active DNA Methylation Changes in Rat Sperm[J]. FRONTIERS IN GENETICS,2017,8.
APA	Zheng, Xiaoguo.,Li, Zhenhua.,Wang, Guishuan.,Li, Zhengzheng.,Liang, Ajuan.,...&Sun, Fei.(2017).Overexpression of Human-Derived DNMT3A Induced Intergenerational Inheritance of Active DNA Methylation Changes in Rat Sperm.FRONTIERS IN GENETICS,8.
MLA	Zheng, Xiaoguo,et al."Overexpression of Human-Derived DNMT3A Induced Intergenerational Inheritance of Active DNA Methylation Changes in Rat Sperm".FRONTIERS IN GENETICS 8(2017).