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Alternative methylation of intron motifs is associated with cancer-related gene expression in both canine mammary tumor and human breast cancer.

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BACKGROUND:Canine mammary tumor (CMT) has long been considered as a good animal model for human breast cancer (HBC) due to their pathological and biological similarities. However, only a few aspects of the epigenome have been explored in both HBC and CMT. Moreover, DNA methylation studies have mainly been limited to the promoter regions of genes. RESULTS:Genome-wide methylation analysis was performed in CMT and adjacent normal tissues and focused on the intron regions as potential targets for epigenetic regulation. As expected, many tumor suppressors and oncogenes were identified. Of note, most cancer-associated biological processes were enriched in differentially methylated genes (DMGs) that included intron DMRs (differentially methylated regions). Interestingly, two PAX motifs, PAX5 (tumor suppressive) and PAX6 (oncogenic), were frequently found in hyper- and hypomethylated intron DMRs, respectively. Hypermethylation at the PAX5 motifs in the intron regions of CDH5 and LRIG1 genes were found to be anti-correlated with gene expression, while CDH2 and ADAM19 genes harboring hypomethylated PAX6 motifs in their intron region were upregulated. These results were validated from the specimens originally MBD-sequenced as well as additional clinical samples. We also comparatively investigated the intron methylation and downstream gene expression of these genes using human breast invasive carcinoma (BRCA) datasets in TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) public database. Regional alteration of methylation was conserved in the corresponding intron regions and, consequently, gene expression was also altered in HBC. CONCLUSIONS:This study provides good evidence for the conservation of epigenetic regulation in CMT and HBC, and suggests that intronic methylation can be an important factor in better understanding gene regulation in both CMT and HBC.

journal_name

Clin Epigenetics

journal_title

Clinical epigenetics

authors

Nam AR,Lee KH,Hwang HJ,Schabort JJ,An JH,Won SH,Cho JY

doi

10.1186/s13148-020-00888-4

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-07-21 00:00:00

pages

110

issue

eissn

1868-7075

issn

1868-7083

pii

10.1186/s13148-020-00888-4

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Alternative methylation of intron motifs is associated with cancer-related gene expression in both canine mammary tumor and human breast cancer.