Abstract:
:Increasing evidence has linked inflammatory processes to neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease (PD). Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) is a key inflammatory cytokine and several studies linked increased TNF-alpha to dopaminergic cell death in PD. The TNF-alpha promoter sequence contains several CpG dinucleotides located within or next to transcription factor binding sites. To test the hypothesis whether the methylation state of the TNF-alpha promoter contributes to increased expression of TNF-alpha in PD we compared DNA from different brain regions (substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and cortex) of PD patients and neurologically healthy, age and sex matched controls by bisulfite sequencing of the TNF-alpha promoter region. The TNF-alpha promoter DNA from SNpc was significantly less methylated in comparison to DNA from cortex; however both in PD patients and controls. Although there was a tendency for hypomethylation in PD, our analysis of the 10 CpGs in the TNF-alpha core promoter region (-258 to -35 relative to the TSS) revealed no particular pattern in PD patients compared to control and identified no particular hypomethylated position in cortex or SNpc DNA. Electrophoretic mobility shift and luciferase reporter assays showed that methylation of specific solitary CpG in the TNF-alpha promoter resulted in reduced binding of the transcription factors AP-2 and Sp1, respectively, and suppressed TNF-alpha promoter activity. The brain region specific methylation state of solitary CpG in the TNF-alpha promoter thus determines transcription factor binding efficacy and TNF-alpha expression. A lesser degree of methylation of the TNF-alpha promoter in SNpc cells could underlie the increased susceptibility of dopaminergic neurons to TNF-alpha mediated inflammatory reactions.
journal_name
Neurobiol Disjournal_title
Neurobiology of diseaseauthors
Pieper HC,Evert BO,Kaut O,Riederer PF,Waha A,Wüllner Udoi
10.1016/j.nbd.2008.09.010subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-12-01 00:00:00pages
521-7issue
3eissn
0969-9961issn
1095-953Xpii
S0969-9961(08)00218-0journal_volume
32pub_type
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