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A novel methyl-binding domain protein enrichment method for identifying genome-wide tissue-specific DNA methylation from nanogram DNA samples


ABSTRACT: Growing evidence suggests that DNA methylation plays a role in tissue-specific differentiation. Current approaches to methylome analysis using MBD-enrichment are restricted to large (≥1 µg) DNA samples, limiting the analysis of small tissue samples. Here we present a technique which enables characterization of genome wide tissue-specific methylation patterns from nanogram quantities of DNA. We have developed a methodology utilizing MBD2b/MBD3L1-enrichment for methylated DNA, kinase pre-treated ligation-mediated PCR amplification (MeKL) and hybridization to the comprehensive high-throughput array for relative methylation (CHARM) customized NimbleGen 2.1M mouse tiling arrays (Feinberg_MM8_Me_HX1), which we termed MeKL-chip. The kinase-modification in combination with the addition of PEG have increased the ligation-mediated PCR amplification over 20-fold, enabling >400-fold amplification of starting DNA. We have shown that MeKL-chip can be applied to as little as 20 ng DNA, enabling comprehensive analysis of small DNA samples. Applying MeKL-chip to the mouse retina (a limited tissue source) and brain, 2498 tissue-specific differentially methylated regions (T-DMRs) were characterized. The top five T-DMRs (Rgs20, Hes2, Nfic, Cckbr and Six3os1) were validated by pyrosequencing. MeKL-chip enables genome-wide methylation analysis of nanogram quantities of DNA with a wide range of observed-to-expected CpG ratios due to the binding properties of the MBD2b/MBD3L1 protein complex. This methodology enabled the first analysis of genome-wide methylation in the mouse retina, characterizing novel T-DMRs.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE46683 | GEO | 2013/06/10

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA201495

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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