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Berglund T, Wallström A, Nguyen TV, Laurell C, Ohlsson AB. Nicotinamide; antioxidative and DNA hypomethylation effects in plant cells. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2017; 118:551-560. [PMID: 28780454 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2017.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2017] [Revised: 07/26/2017] [Accepted: 07/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The effects of nicotinamide (NIC) and its natural plant metabolites nicotinic acid (NIA) and trigonelline (TRIG) were studied with respect to defense in plant cell cultures. NIC and NIA could protect against oxidative stress damage caused by 2,2'-azobis(2-amidinopropane) dihydrochloride (AAPH), which generates free radicals. Damage was analyzed as DNA strand breaks in cell cultures of Pisum sativum (garden pea), Daucus carota (carrot), Populus tremula L. × P. tremuloides (hybrid aspen) and Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle), monitored by single cell gel electrophoresis (comet assay), and assays of cell leakage in C. roseus. The activities of aconitase and fumarase enzymes, which have key roles in energy metabolism, were analyzed in P. sativum cultures after treatment with NIC or NIA. Aconitase activity was increased by NIA, and fumarase activity was increased by both compounds. These compounds were shown to promote glutathione metabolism in P. sativum cultures, and NIC was shown to have a global DNA hypomethylating effect. Neither TRIG nor poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor 3-aminobenzamide offered any protection against DNA damage or cell leakage, nor did they promote aconitase or fumarase activities, or glutathione metabolism. By this broad approach addressing multiple biochemical factors and different plant species, we demonstrate that NIC and NIA protect plant cells from oxidative stress, and that NIC clearly exerts an epigenetic effect; decreased DNA methylation. This indicates that these compounds have important roles in the regulation of metabolism in plant cells, especially in connection to stress.
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- Torkel Berglund
- School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Rd., Cau Giay, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
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- School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Locus- and Site-Specific DNA Methylation of 19 kDa Zein Genes in Maize. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0146416. [PMID: 26741504 PMCID: PMC4704816 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2015] [Accepted: 12/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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An interesting question in maize development is why only a single zein gene is highly expressed in each of the 19-kDa zein gene clusters (A and B types), z1A2-1 and z1B4, in the immature endosperm. For instance, epigenetic marks could provide a structural difference. Therefore, we investigated the DNA methylation of the arrays of gene copies in both promoter and gene body regions of leaf (non-expressing tissue as a control), normal endosperm, and cultured endosperm. Although we could show that expressed genes have much lower methylation levels in promoter regions than silent ones in both leaf and normal endosperm, there was surprisingly also a difference in the pattern of the z1A and z1B gene clusters. The expression of z1B gene is suppressed by increased DNA methylation and activated with reduced DNA methylation, whereas z1A gene expression is not. DNA methylation in gene coding regions is higher in leaf than in endosperm, whereas no significant difference is observed in gene bodies between expressed and non-expressed gene copies. A median CHG methylation (25–30%) appears to be optimal for gene expression. Moreover, tissue-cultured endosperm can reset the DNA methylation pattern and tissue-specific gene expression. These results reveal that DNA methylation changes of the 19-kDa zein genes is subject to plant development and tissue culture treatment, but varies in different chromosomal locations, indicating that DNA methylation changes do not apply to gene expression in a uniform fashion. Because tissue culture is used to produce transgenic plants, these studies provide new insights into variation of gene expression of integrated sequences.
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Zhang H, Peng H, Li Y, Xu P, Wang X, Wu X. Patterns of DNA cytosine methylation between haploids and corresponding diploids in rice. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-2048-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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DNA in plants is highly methylated, containing 5-methylcytosine (m5C) and N6-methyladenine (m6A); m5C is located mainly in symmetrical CG and CNG sequences but it may occur also in other non-symmetrical contexts. m6A but not m5C was found in plant mitochondrial DNA. DNA methylation in plants is species-, tissue-, organelle- and age-specific. It is controlled by phytohormones and changes on seed germination, flowering and under the influence of various pathogens (viral, bacterial, fungal). DNA methylation controls plant growth and development, with particular involvement in regulation of gene expression and DNA replication. DNA replication is accompanied by the appearance of under-methylated, newly formed DNA strands including Okazaki fragments; asymmetry of strand DNA methylation disappears until the end of the cell cycle. A model for regulation of DNA replication by methylation is suggested. Cytosine DNA methylation in plants is more rich and diverse compared with animals. It is carried out by the families of specific enzymes that belong to at least three classes of DNA methyltransferases. Open reading frames (ORF) for adenine DNA methyltransferases are found in plant and animal genomes, and a first eukaryotic (plant) adenine DNA methyltransferase (wadmtase) is described; the enzyme seems to be involved in regulation of the mitochondria replication. Like in animals, DNA methylation in plants is closely associated with histone modifications and it affects binding of specific proteins to DNA and formation of respective transcription complexes in chromatin. The same gene (DRM2) in Arabidopsis thaliana is methylated both at cytosine and adenine residues; thus, at least two different, and probably interdependent, systems of DNA modification are present in plants. Plants seem to have a restriction-modification (R-M) system. RNA-directed DNA methylation has been observed in plants; it involves de novo methylation of almost all cytosine residues in a region of siRNA-DNA sequence identity; therefore, it is mainly associated with CNG and non-symmetrical methylations (rare in animals) in coding and promoter regions of silenced genes. Cytoplasmic viral RNA can affect methylation of homologous nuclear sequences and it maybe one of the feedback mechanisms between the cytoplasm and the nucleus to control gene expression.
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- B F Vanyushin
- Belozersky Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.
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Janousek B, Matsunaga S, Kejnovsky E, Ziuvova J, Vyskot B. DNA methylation analysis of a male reproductive organ specific gene (MROS1) during pollen development. Genome 2002; 45:930-8. [PMID: 12416626 DOI: 10.1139/g02-052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Pollen grains of angiosperm plants represent a good model system for studies of chromatin structure and remodelling factors, but very little is known about the DNA methylation status of particular genes in pollen. In this study, we present an analysis of the DNA methylation patterns of the MROS1 gene, which is expressed in the late phases of pollen development in Silene latifolia (syn. Meladrium album). The genomic sequencing technique revealed similar DNA methylation patterns in leaves, binucleate pollen, and trinucleate pollen. Extremely high DNA methylation levels occurred in the CG dinucleotides of the upstream region (99%), whereas only a low level of CG methylation was observed in the transcribed sequence (7%). Low levels of methylation were also observed in asymmetric sequences (in both regions; 2% methylated). The results obtained in the MROS1 gene are discussed in consequence with the immunohistochemical data showing a hypermethylation of DNA in the vegetative nucleus.
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- Bohuslav Janousek
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno.
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Kovarík A, Matyásek R, Leitch A, Gazdová B, Fulnecek J, Bezdek M. Variability in CpNpG methylation in higher plant genomes. Gene 1997; 204:25-33. [PMID: 9434162 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00503-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The methylation status of ribosomal gene (rRNA) clusters have been investigated in a large variety of angiosperm species. Here we have analysed methylation in ribosomal gene (rRNA) clusters using MspI, HpaII, BstNI, EcoRII and CfoI restriction enzymes in combination with Southern hybridization to the 25S rDNA probe. It was shown that cytosine methylation at CpG dinucleotides and CpNpG trinucleotides occurred in all plant genomes examined. Methylation of rDNA units at CpG dinucleotides (studied with CfoI) was high in all species tested with approx. 40-70% of units being completely or nearly completely methylated. In contrast, the extent of the CpNpG methylation (studied with MspI and EcoRII) varied significantly between species; the percentage of the rDNA fraction entirely methylated at CpNpG trinucleotides ranged from less than 1% to almost 90% depending on the genome studied. Larger interspecies than within species variation was also observed among several non-transcribing repetitive sequences. In a small genome of A. thaliana, the CpNpG methylation appeared to be highly compartmentalized into the repetitive fraction. The methylation of trinucleotides was abundant in large A+T-rich genomes and it is proposed that the CpA(T)pG trinucleotides may help to maintain a high density of methylatable targets in plant repeated sequences.
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- A Kovarík
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno.
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Bůzek J, Koutníková H, Houben A, Ríha K, Janousek B, Siroký J, Grant S, Vyskot B. Isolation and characterization of X chromosome-derived DNA sequences from a dioecious plant Melandrium album. Chromosome Res 1997; 5:57-65. [PMID: 9088644 DOI: 10.1023/a:1011693603279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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A number of X chromosome DNA sequences have been isolated from a dioecious plant, Melandrium album (syn. Silene latifolia), using chromosome microdissection followed by degenerate oligonucleotideprimed polymerase chain reaction (DOP-PCR) amplification. Six DNA clones were selected and further characterized by DNA/DNA hybridization techniques to check their copy numbers, sex-specific methylation patterns, species specificity and positions on chromosomes. These clones were moderately to highly repetitive (approximately 10(3)-10(5) copies per haploid genome) and none of them gave a positive signal on Northern blots. One of the clones yielded a sex-specific methylation pattern: its abundant non-methylated CCGG island was found only in males. All the clones also hybridized to two closely related dioecious Melandrium species (M. rubrum and M. dicline). Nucleotide sequences of two X-derived clones showed a number of internal short direct repeats; one of them strikingly resembled a plant conservative telomere sequence (TTTAGGG). None of the clones hybridized to the X chromosome only, but all were localized at the telomeric heterochromatic regions (DAPI C-bands) of both arms of a vast majority of M. album chromosomes using the fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) technique. However, the non-homologous arm of the Y chromosome (contrary to the arm homologous to the X chromosome, possessing the pseudoautosomal region) showed neither a DAPI C-banding-stained heterochromatin nor a FISH signal with any of the DNA probes tested, thus indicating its evolutionary diversification.
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MESH Headings
- Base Composition
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Southern
- Chromosome Banding
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Methylation
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Plant/genetics
- DNA, Plant/isolation & purification
- Heterochromatin/ultrastructure
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Meiosis/genetics
- Mitosis/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plants/genetics
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- RNA, Plant/genetics
- RNA, Plant/isolation & purification
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sex Chromatin
- Species Specificity
- X Chromosome/genetics
- X Chromosome/ultrastructure
- Y Chromosome/genetics
- Y Chromosome/ultrastructure
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- J Bůzek
- Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg, France
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Jost JP, Bruhat A. The formation of DNA methylation patterns and the silencing of genes. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1997; 57:217-48. [PMID: 9175435 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60282-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- J P Jost
- Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
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Matyásek R, Fulnecek J, Fajkus J, Bezdĕk M. Evidence for a sequence-directed conformation periodicity in the genomic highly repetitive DNA detectable with single-strand-specific chemical probe potassium permanganate. Chromosome Res 1996; 4:340-9. [PMID: 8871822 DOI: 10.1007/bf02257269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A single-strand-specific chemical probe, potassium permanganate (KMnO4), was used to study the sequence-dependent conformation periodicity of tandem multicopy repetitive DNA sequences HRS60 and GRS (Nicotiana Species) at the level of single base pair and dinucleotide step. Local DNA structures, sensitive to KMnO4, revealed periodicity of 182 +/- 2 bp, equal to the length of repeat units. Permanganate-sensitive local structures were mapped to both DNA strands of genomic HRS60 sequences and were found to be linked to d(A)n tracts. These adenine tracts are located in the proximity of the intrinsically curved domains. Distamycin A increased reactivity of the DNA but decreased the specificity of DNA cleavage. Similar conformation periodicity has been detected also in the 'canrep' family of repeats (Brassica species). All studied repetitive sequences are predominantly located in the constitutive heterochromatin. We discuss the role of conformation periodicities in relation to a structural code for nucleosome phasing at tandem arrays of DNA repeats.
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- R Matyásek
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic
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Janousek B, Siroký J, Vyskot B. Epigenetic control of sexual phenotype in a dioecious plant, Melandrium album. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1996; 250:483-90. [PMID: 8602166 DOI: 10.1007/bf02174037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Melandrium album (syn. Silene latifolia) is a model dioecious species in which the Y chromosome, present only in heterogametic males, plays both a male-determining and a strict female-suppressing role. We showed that treatment with 5-azacytidine (5-azaC) induces a sex change to androhermaphroditism (an-dromonoecy) in about 21% of male plants, while no apparent phenotypic effect was observed in females. All of these bisexual androhermaphrodites (with the standard male 24, AA + XY karyotype) were mosaics possessing both male and hermaphrodite flowers and, moreover, the hermaphrodite flowers displayed various degrees of gynoecium development and seed setting. Southern hybridization analysis with a repetitive DNA probe showed that the 5-azacytidine-treated plants were significantly hypomethylated in CG doubles, but only to a minor degree in CNG triplets. The bisexual trait was transmitted to two successive generations, but only when androhermaphrodite plants were used as pollen donors. The sex reversal was inherited with incomplete penetrance and varying expressivity. Based on the uniparental inheritance pattern of androhermaphroditism we conclude that it originated either by 5-azaC induced inhibition of Y-linked female-suppressing genes or by a heritable activation of autosomal female-determining/promoting genes which can be reversed, on passage through female meiosis, by a genomic imprinting mechanism. The data presented indicate that female sex suppression in M. album XY males is dependent on methylation of specific DNA sequences and can be heritably modified by hypomethylating drugs.
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- B Janousek
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic
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Vyskot B, Koukalová B, Kovařík A, Sachambula L, Reynolds D, Bezděk M. Meiotic transmission of a hypomethylated repetitive DNA family in tobacco. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 1995; 91:659-664. [PMID: 24169895 DOI: 10.1007/bf00223294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/1994] [Accepted: 01/27/1995] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We have recently shown that hypomethylation of cytosine residues in the HRS60 family of repetitive DNA sequences can be induced with 5-azacytidine (5-azaC) in tobacco tissue cultures. We have also proven that such a DNA methylation status is maintained during the recovery of protoplasts, plant regeneration, and vegetative development. In the present paper we follow meiotic transmission of hypomethylated HRS60 DNA. Plants obtained from seeds treated with 5-azaC were either self pollinated or crossed with a non-treated control in a reciprocal way. Analysis of the methylation status of the HRS60 DNA revealed that these sequences were hypomethylated in the progenies up to the extent found in the parental 5-azaC-treated plant. Since no parent-of-origin effect was observed, we presume that both male and female gametes transmit an artificial methylation imprint to a similar extent. This result is supported by methylcytosine evaluation in the total genomic DNA samples. A temporal analysis of 5-azaC effects on germinating seeds and a phenotypic evaluation of 5-azaC-treated tobacco plants are also presented.
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- B Vyskot
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, The Czech Republic
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Gazdová B, Siroký J, Fajkus J, Brzobohatý B, Kenton A, Parokonny A, Heslop-Harrison JS, Palme K, Bezdĕk M. Characterization of a new family of tobacco highly repetitive DNA, GRS, specific for the Nicotiana tomentosiformis genomic component. Chromosome Res 1995; 3:245-54. [PMID: 7606363 DOI: 10.1007/bf00713050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Members of a new family of highly repetitive DNA sequences called GRS were isolated from Nicotiana tabacum L. genomic DNA and characterized. Cloned, sequenced monomeric units (180-182 bp) of GRS exhibit properties characteristic of molecules that possess a stable curvature. The GRS family represents about 0.15% of total genomic DNA (10(4) copies per haploid genome) and could be derived from either Nicotiana tomentosiformis or Nicotiana otophora, two possible ancestors of the T genome of the amphidiploid N. tabacum. Sequence homology between the HRS60 (Koukalová et al. 1989) and the GRS family has been estimated to be 57%. In situ hybridization was used to localize GRS on mitotic chromosomes. Hybridization signals were obtained on five pairs of chromosomes at intercalary sites of the longer chromosome arms. The majority of GRS sequences appeared to be organized in tandem arrays and a minority were found to be dispersed through the genome in short clusters, interspersed with other types of DNA repeats, including 25S rDNA sequences. Several loci containing both GRS and HRS60 were also found. Such hybrid loci may indicate intergenomic transfer of the DNA in the amphidiploid N. tabacum. GRS sequences, like HRS60 (Fajkus et al. 1992), were found to specify the location of nucleosomes. The position of the nucleosome core has been mapped with respect to a conserved Mbol site in the GRS sequence and an oligo A/T tract is a major centre of the DNA curvature.
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- B Gazdová
- Institute of Biophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno
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Kovarík A, Koukalová B, Holý A, Bezdĕk M. Sequence-specific hypomethylation of the tobacco genome induced with dihydroxypropyladenine, ethionine and 5-azacytidine. FEBS Lett 1994; 353:309-11. [PMID: 7525347 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)01048-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Higher plant DNA is methylated at CG and CNG targets. In this study we have investigated the tobacco methylation system in tissue culture using the methylation inhibitors 5-azacytidine (5-azaC), dihydroxypropyladenine (DHPA) and ethionine (Ethi), and methylation-sensitive restriction endonucleases HpaII, MspI, HhaI, EcoRII, ScrFI, and Fnu4HI. Surprisingly, CAG/CTG sequences, contrary to CG doublets and CCG/CGG triplets, appeared to be refractory to the inhibitory effect of 5-azaC. Thus 5-azaC cannot be considered a general inhibitor of DNA methylation in tobacco cells. On the other hand, DHPA, the inhibitor of S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) hydrolase, and Ethi caused hypomethylation of both CAG/CTG and CCG/CGG triplets but not of the CG doublets. The sensitivity of triplet-specific methylation to the inhibition of SAH hydrolase suggests the possibility that plant-specific DNA methylation at CNG targets might be modulated by alterations of the SAH/S-Adenosylmethionine ratio in plant cells.
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- A Kovarík
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno
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Finnegan EJ, Dennis ES. Isolation and identification by sequence homology of a putative cytosine methyltransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:2383-8. [PMID: 8389441 PMCID: PMC309536 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.10.2383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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A plant cytosine methyltransferase cDNA was isolated using degenerate oligonucleotides, based on homology between prokaryote and mouse methyltransferases, and PCR to amplify a short fragment of a methyltransferase gene. A fragment of the predicted size was amplified from genomic DNA from Arabidopsis thaliana. Overlapping cDNA clones, some with homology to the PCR amplified fragment, were identified and sequenced. The assembled nucleic acid sequence is 4720 bp and encodes a protein of 1534 amino acids which has significant homology to prokaryote and mammalian cytosine methyltransferases. Like mammalian methylases, this enzyme has a C terminal methyltransferase domain linked to a second larger domain. The Arabidopsis methylase has eight of the ten conserved sequence motifs found in prokaryote cytosine-5 methyltransferases and shows 50% homology to the murine enzyme in the methyltransferase domain. The amino terminal domain is only 24% homologous to the murine enzyme and lacks the zinc binding region that has been found in methyltransferases from both mouse and man. In contrast to mouse where a single methyltransferase gene has been identified, a small multigene family with homology to the region amplified in PCR has been identified in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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- E J Finnegan
- CSIRO, Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Fajkus J, Vyskot B, Bezdĕk M. Changes in chromatin structure due to hypomethylation induced with 5-azacytidine or DL-ethionine. FEBS Lett 1992; 314:13-6. [PMID: 1280601 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)81449-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Changes in chromatin structure of the HRS60 family of repetitive sequences in tobacco DNA were studied after hypomethylation induced with 5-azacytidine or DL-ethionine. The TaqI site in the HRS60 units lies in nucleosomal core regions and its cleavage is enhanced in the hypomethylated chromatin. In contrast, the cleavage of the Sau3AI site located in linker DNA does not depend on the level of methylation of DNA.
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- J Fajkus
- Institute of Biophysics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno
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