Journal: Journal of the American Heart Association
Article Title: DNA Methyltransferase 1–Dependent DNA Hypermethylation Constrains Arteriogenesis by Augmenting Shear Stress Set Point
doi: 10.1161/jaha.117.007673
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 2. Endothelial cells exposed to a nonreversed increase in shear stress magnitude exhibit augmented DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) expression and altered genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in vitro. A, Schematic depicting biomimetic shear stress conditions applied to human umbilical vein endothelial cells to simulate nonreversed/muscular (N, blue) and reversed/saphenous (R, orange) regions. B, Bar graph of DNMT1 mRNA expression in each flow condition 1 hour or 6 hours after simulated femoral artery ligation (FAL) (n=8 for 1 hour and n=6 for 6 hours). *P<0.05 between reversed and nonreversed within a time point, Student t test. Data are meanSEM. C through D, Scatter plot and Volcano plot of all differentially methylated regions in a gene promoter region (17 227 total). Significant differentially methylated regions were designated as hypomethylated (blue, 213 total) or hypermethylated (red, 603 total) with respect to the nonreversed condition (Table S3). E through F, Using our mRNA-sequencing data set, we further filtered this list of significantly hypermethylated and hypomethylated genes (816 total genes) to contain only those with gene expression changes between nonreversed and reversed conditions in the expected direction based on their change in promoter methylation, ie, genes that were downregulated and had a hypermethylated promoter (red, 250 genes) or were upregulated and had a hypomethylated promoter (blue, 127 genes) in nonreversed vs reversed conditions (Tables S4 and S5). FDR indicates false discovery rate.
Article Snippet: Differences in DNA methylation as detected by HRM were quantified by the net temperature shift as previously calculated.28 Briefly, the net temperature shift was calculated as average distance between the normalized melt curves of experimental samples from a universal methylated positive control (#D5012; Zymo Research) where a more negative net temperature shift indicates a less methylated sample.
Techniques: Shear, Expressing, Genome Wide, DNA Methylation Assay, In Vitro, Ligation, Methylation, Sequencing, Gene Expression