Afonso Juliana, Shim Woo Jun, Boden Mikael, Salinas Fortes Marina Rufino, da Silva Diniz Wellison Jarles, de Lima Andressa Oliveira, Rocha Marina Ibelli Pereira, Cardoso Tainã Figueiredo, Bruscadin Jennifer Jessica, Gromboni Caio Fernando, Nogueira Ana Rita Araujo, Mourão Gerson Barreto, Zerlotini Adhemar, Coutinho Luiz Lehmann, de Almeida Regitano Luciana Correia
Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Biochem Biophys Rep. 2023 Jan 5;33:101420. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2023.101420. eCollection 2023 Mar.
Epigenetic repression has been linked to the regulation of different cell states. In this study, we focus on the influence of this repression, mainly by H3K27me3, over gene expression in muscle cells, which may affect mineral content, a phenotype that is relevant to muscle function and beef quality. Based on the inverse relationship between H3K27me3 and gene expression (, epigenetic repression) and on contrasting sample groups, we computationally predicted regulatory genes that affect muscle mineral content. To this end, we applied the TRIAGE predictive method followed by a rank product analysis. This methodology can predict regulatory genes that might be affected by repressive epigenetic regulation related to mineral concentration. Annotation of orthologous genes, between human and bovine, enabled our investigation of gene expression in the muscle of cattle. The animals under study had a contrasting mineral content in their muscle cells. We identified candidate regulatory genes influenced by repressive epigenetic mechanisms, linking histone modification to mineral content in beef samples. The discovered candidate genes take part in multiple biological pathways, impulse transmission, cell signalling, immunological, and developmental pathways. Some of these genes were previously associated with mineral content or regulatory mechanisms. Our findings indicate that epigenetic repression can partially explain the gene expression profiles observed in muscle samples with contrasting mineral content through the candidate regulators here identified.
表观遗传抑制与不同细胞状态的调控有关。在本研究中,我们主要关注这种抑制作用(主要通过H3K27me3)对肌肉细胞基因表达的影响,这可能会影响矿物质含量,而矿物质含量是与肌肉功能和牛肉品质相关的一个表型。基于H3K27me3与基因表达之间的负相关关系(即表观遗传抑制)以及对比样本组,我们通过计算预测了影响肌肉矿物质含量的调控基因。为此,我们应用了TRIAGE预测方法,随后进行秩乘积分析。这种方法可以预测可能受与矿物质浓度相关的抑制性表观遗传调控影响的调控基因。通过对人和牛的直系同源基因进行注释,我们得以研究牛肌肉中的基因表达。所研究的动物肌肉细胞中的矿物质含量存在差异。我们鉴定出了受抑制性表观遗传机制影响的候选调控基因,将组蛋白修饰与牛肉样本中的矿物质含量联系起来。发现的候选基因参与多种生物学途径,如冲动传递、细胞信号传导、免疫和发育途径。其中一些基因先前与矿物质含量或调控机制有关。我们的研究结果表明,表观遗传抑制可以通过这里鉴定出的候选调节因子部分解释在矿物质含量不同的肌肉样本中观察到的基因表达谱。