Silencing of bidirectional promoters by DNA methylation in tumorigenesis

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Shu, Jingmin [1 ]
Jelinek, Jaroslav [1 ]
Chang, Hao [1 ]
Shen, Lanlan [1 ]
Qin, Taichun [1 ]
Chung, Woonbok [1 ]
Oki, Yasuhiro [1 ]
Issa, Jean-Pierre J. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Texas, MD Anderson Canc Ctr, Dept Leukemia, U428, Houston, TX 77030 USA
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10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-2629
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R73 [肿瘤学];
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CpG island methylation within promoters is known to silence individual genes in cancer. The involvement of this process in silencing gene pairs controlled by bidirectional promoters is unclear. In a screen for hypermethylated CpG islands in cancer, bidirectional promoters constituted 25.2% of all identified promoters, which matches with the genomic representation of bidirectional promoters. From the screen, we selected three bidirectional gene pairs for detailed analysis, WNT9A/CD558500, CTDSPL/BC040563, and KCNK15/BF195580. Levels of mRNA of all three pairs of genes were inversely correlated with the degree of promoter methylation in multiple cancer cell lines. Hypomethylation of these promoters induced by 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine treatment reactivated or enhanced gene expression bidirectionally. The bidirectional nature of the WNT9A/CD558500 promoter was confirmed by luciferase assays, and hypermethylation downregulated expression of both genes in the pair. Methylation of WNT9A/CD558500 and CTDSPL/BC040563 promoters occurs frequently in primary colon cancers and acute lymphoid leukemias (ALL), respectively, and methylation was correlated with decreased gene expression in ALL patient samples. Our study shows that hypermethylation of bidirectional promoter-associated CpG island silences two genes simultaneously, a property that should be taken into account when studying the functional consequences of hypermethylation in cancer.
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