Journal: Life Science Alliance
Article Title: Aberrant DNA methylation distorts developmental trajectories in atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors
doi: 10.26508/lsa.202302088
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A, B, C, D) Differential DNA methylation (DM) was associated with differential gene expression (DE). Gene expression and DNA methylation patterns were studied in four contexts: differential gene expression alone (A) and DE coupled with DM in the genomic neighborhood (±200 kb from the transcription start site [TSS] within the same topologically associating domain) (B), DE coupled with DM in gene-linked enhancer (C), and DE coupled with DM in the gene promoter (2 kb upstream and 500 bp downstream from the TSS) (D). Venn diagrams show the numbers of genes behaving similarly in both sequencing and array data. Differentially expressed genes associated with differential DNA methylation (B, C, D) are called DM-DE genes. Only cases where the sign of DM change was opposite to DE were included in the figure. (E) DM-DE genes in AT/RT comparisons show generally high DNA methylation among AT/RTs. Sample-wise heatmaps show the levels of DNA methylation (average methylation of variable sites) and gene expression. The rightmost heatmap summarizes in which comparison the DM-DE gene was detected, what was the direction of DNA methylation change (hyper/hypo), and the genomic location of the DMR. (F) Expression patterns of selected DM-DE genes. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001. (G) Hypermethylated DMRs in relevant genes, which are hypermethylated and underexpressed in AT/RTs. CXXC5 and TCEA3 are AT/RT-specifically suppressed DM-DE genes, and NEUROG1 , EBF3 , and NEUROD2 are DM-DE genes in the AT/RT-MB comparison. Distal DMRs are connected to the TSS via an arch. Oncoprint indicates which relevant TFs have binding sites in these regions in selected GTRD categories. The color of the DMR indicates whether the DMR is PSC-like and whether it is demethylated during neural cell differentiation. The number in front of the DMR indicates the k-means cluster which DMR belongs to (see ). Gray DMRs were not included in TF binding and DMR cluster analysis as they were not AT/RT-specific.
Article Snippet: To study oncogenic epigenetic regulation in AT/RTs, we collected genome-wide DNA methylation Illumina microarray data (i450K) from 497 tumors and unmatched microarray expression data from 110 tumors; 89 normal brain DNA methylation samples were used as controls in i450k-based DNA methylation analysis.
Techniques: DNA Methylation Assay, Gene Expression, Sequencing, Methylation, Comparison, Expressing, Binding Assay, Cell Differentiation