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DNMT3a mediates paclitaxel-induced abnormal expression of LINE-1 by increasing the intragenic methylation

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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Human Functional Genomics of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China
    2. Department of Cell Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Received date: 2019-10-29

  Revised date: 2019-12-27

  Online published: 2020-01-07

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China No(81172091)

Abstract

The activation of long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1) leads to genomic instability, which promotes carcinogenesis and drug resistant. Therefore, exploring the mechanism underlying LINE-1 abnormal activation has the theoretical and clinical significance. DNA methylation is an important way to regulate gene expression. DNMT3a, one member of the DNA methyltransferase family, not only inhibits gene expression by inducing promoter hypermethylation, but also activates gene expression by increasing the intragenic DNA methylation. Our previous studies found that the expression of LINE-1 did not increase significantly in the promoter methylation in breast cancer cells treated with paclitaxel (PTX), a first-line chemotherapeutic drug for breast cancer. Here we explored whether DMNMT3a could directly mediate the drug-induced activation of LINE-1 in breast cancer cells through increasing the LINE-1 intragenic methylation. Our ChIP experiments and methyl analysis showed that treatment of breast cancer cells with PTX not only induced DNMT3a expression, but also promoted the binding of DNMT3a to the inner region of the LINE-1 gene to increase its methylation, resulting in upregulation of LINE-1 expression. Using expression vectors or RNA interference to alter the DNMT3a expression levels in the cells significantly changed the intragenic methylation degree and LINE-1 expression. Moreover, down-regulation of DNMT3a expression effectively inhibited the expression of LINE-1. These results indicate that DNMT3a-mediated intragenic methylation plays an important role in drug-induced abnormal activation of LINE-1, which provides a new idea for understanding the mechanism of abnormal activation of Line-1 induced by chemotherapy drug stress in breast cancer cells.

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Xinyuan Wang, Yu Zhang, Nan Yang, He Cheng, Yujie Sun . DNMT3a mediates paclitaxel-induced abnormal expression of LINE-1 by increasing the intragenic methylation[J]. Hereditas(Beijing), 2020 , 42(1) : 100 -111 . DOI: 10.16288/j.yczz.19-258

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