Journal: American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
Article Title: Role of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 2 on DNA Hydroxymethylation in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells
doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2019-0323OC
Figure Lengend Snippet: Knockdown of IDH2 by siIDH2 reduced TGFB2 (transforming growth factor-β2) mRNA levels and hydroxymethylation of the TGFB2 promoter in human asthmatic ASM cells. (A) mRNA levels of TGFB2 in samples were assayed by qPCR. (B) Schematic diagram of CpG dinucleotide (GC) content (percentage) in the 5′ promoter region of TGFB2. In silico analysis identified the CpG islands (shaded in gray in the genomic DNA sequence) based on a GC content > 60% with an observed/expected ratio of 0.6 (MethPrimer). The PCR amplicon generated by PCR is indicated by the regions bounded by arrows. (C) Average of TGFB2 promoter methylation in nonasthmatic and asthmatic ASM cells was assayed by bisulfite sequencing. (D) mRNA levels of TGFB2 in asthmatic ASM cells after siRNA treatment were assayed by qPCR. (E and F) The average percentage of methylation (E) and hydroxymethylation (F) of each CpG site of the TGFB2 promoter in asthmatic ASM cells (six donors) was assayed by oxidative bisulfite sequencing. Four to six individual clones from each donor were picked for sequencing. Each data point represents the mean of six donors in LF controls (solid circles) and siCTL-treated (solid squares) and siIDH2-treated (open triangles) asthmatic ASM cells. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, and ***P < 0.001 compared with LF controls. #P = 0.05 compared with siCTL-transfected cells. ATG = translation start site; Ave. = average; TSS = transcription start site; UTR = untranslated region.
Article Snippet: Alternatively, the cells were transfected with 500 ng of IDH2 ( {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"NM_002168","term_id":"1780222522","term_text":"NM_002168"}} NM_002168 ) DNA plasmid (pCMV6-AC_IDH2, ORIGENE SC319226) or an empty vector (pCMV6-AC, ORIGENE PS100020) for IDH2 overexpression.
Techniques: In Silico, Sequencing, Amplification, Generated, Methylation, Methylation Sequencing, Oxidative Bisulfite Sequencing, Clone Assay, Transfection