Induction of DNA methylation and gene silencing by short interfering RNAs in human cells.

Abstract:

:Double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) induce post-transcriptional gene silencing in several species of animal and plant. In plants, dsRNAs targeted to CpG islands within a promoter can also induce RNA-directed DNA methylation; however, it remains unclear whether gene silencing mediated by DNA methylation can be induced by dsRNAs in mammalian cells. Here, we demonstrate that short interfering RNAs (siRNAs; 21-25-nucleotide RNA molecules) induce DNA methylation and histone H3 methylation in human cells. Synthetic siRNAs targeted to CpG islands of an E-cadherin promoter induced significant DNA methylation and histone H3 lysine 9 methylation in both MCF-7 and normal mammary epithelial cells. As a result, these siRNAs repressed expression of the E-cadherin gene at the transcriptional level. In addition, disrupting the expression of either one of two DNA methyltransferases (DNMT1 or DNMT3B) by specific siRNAs abolished the siRNA-mediated methylation of DNA. Moreover, vector-based siRNAs targeted to the erbB2 (also known as HER2) promoter also induced DNA methylation in MCF-7 cells. Thus, siRNAs targeted to CpG islands within the promoter of a specific gene can induce transcriptional gene silencing by means of DNA-methyltransferase-dependent methylation of DNA in human cells, and might have potential as a new type of gene therapeutic agent.

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Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Kawasaki H,Taira K

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10.1038/nature02889

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-09-09 00:00:00

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211-7

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7005

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0028-0836

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1476-4687

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nature02889

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431

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