Regional-specific global cytosine methylation and DNA methyltransferase expression in the adult rat hippocampus - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 2008 Jul 25;440(1):49-53.
doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.05.028. Epub 2008 May 14.
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Regional-specific global cytosine methylation and DNA methyltransferase expression in the adult rat hippocampus
Shelley E Brown et al. Neurosci Lett. 2008.
Abstract
Recent observations suggest that DNA methylation plays an important role in memory and long-term potentiation (LTP) in the hippocampus and is involved in programming the offspring epigenome in response to maternal care. Global DNA methylation is believed to be stable postnatally and to be similar across tissues in the adult mammal. It has also been a long held belief that DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) play a very limited role in postmitotic tissues. Recent data suggests a more dynamic role for DNA methylation in the brain postnatally, therefore we examined the global state of methylation and the expression of the known DNMTs in the different regions of the hippocampus. We observed strikingly different levels of global methylation in the adult rat dentate gyrus (DG) and CA1 region in comparison with the CA2 and CA3 regions. mRNA levels of DNA methyltransferases exhibited similar regional specificity and were correlated with global DNA methylation levels. These regional differences in global methylation and expression of the DNA methylation machinery in the adult brain are consistent with the emerging hypothesis that DNA methylation may play a dynamic physiological role in the adult brain.
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