Abstract
Epigenetic modifications to cytosine have been shown to regulate transcription in cancer, embryonic development, and recently neurodegeneration. While cytosine methylation studies are now common in neurodegenerative research, hydroxymethylation studies are rare, particularly genome-wide mapping studies. As an initial study to analyze 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) genome, reduced representation hydroxymethylation profiling (RRHP) was used to analyze more than 2 million sites of possible modification in hippocampal DNA of sporadic AD and normal control subjects. Genes with differentially hydroxymethylated regions were filtered based on previously published microarray data for altered gene expression in hippocampal DNA of AD subjects. Our data show significant pathways for altered levels of 5-hmC in the hippocampus of AD subjects compared to age-matched normal controls involved in signaling, energy metabolism, cell function, gene expression, protein degradation, and cell structure and stabilization. Overall, our data suggest a possible role for the dysregulation of epigenetic modifications to cytosine in late stage AD.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2017
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12031-017-0969-y
Funding Information
This research was supported by National Institutes of Health grant P30-AG028383 and by a grant from the office of the Vice President for Research of the University of Kentucky.
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Repository Citation
Ellison, Elizabeth M.; Bradley-Whitman, Melissa A.; and Lovell, Mark A., "Single-Base Resolution Mapping of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Modifications in Hippocampus of Alzheimer's Disease Subjects" (2017). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 153.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/chemistry_facpub/153
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, v. 63, issue 2, p. 185-197.
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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12031-017-0969-y