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线粒体膜超极化调节核DNA甲基化和基因表达通过脂重塑
Mateus Prates Mori1, Oswaldo A Lozoya2, Ashley M Brooks3
1Mechanistic Toxicology Branch, Division of Translational Toxicology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Durham, NC, USA.
Nature communications
|April 29, 2025
概括
线粒体超极化,或增加的膜潜力,导致核DNA高甲基化,并改变基因转录. 这种与脂重塑相关的表观遗传变化会影响细胞功能和疾病.
科学领域:
- 线粒体生物学 线粒体生物学
- 表观遗传学 在表观遗传学中,表观遗传学是指表观遗传学.
- 细胞代谢的细胞代谢.
背景情况:
- 维护线粒体内膜潜力 (ΔΨm) 对于细胞功能至关重要.
- 虽然研究了ΔΨm损失,但线粒体超极化的影响在很大程度上仍然未知.
- ATP5IF1 (IF1) 抑制了ATP合成酶的水解活性,其删除导致休息 ΔΨm 的增加.
研究的目的:
- 研究慢性线粒体超极化对细胞表观遗传学和基因表达的影响.
- 确定将线粒体膜潜能与表观基因组联系起来的分子机制.
- 探索线粒体超极化在细胞适应和疾病中的作用.
主要方法:
- 利用ATP5IF1删除细胞作为增加休息ΔΨm的模型.
- 在超极化细胞中研究了核DNA甲基化和基因转录.
- 检查了脂,氧化还原和代谢变化,以应对改变的ΔΨm.
- 在暴露于超极化化学物质的野生类型细胞中总结了效应.
- 分析了自然耗尽IF1.1的卵巢癌细胞.
主要成果:
- 慢性线粒体超极化导致核DNA超甲基化.
- 高甲基化调节线粒体,碳水化合物和脂质基因的转录.
- 脂变化,而不是氧化还原或代谢变化,调解了ΔΨm与表观基因组之间的联系.
- 这些效应是可逆的,通过 ΔΨm 的降低,在卵巢癌细胞中观察到.
结论:
- 线粒体超极化通过DNA超甲基化诱导表观遗传修饰.
- 脂重塑是对持续高ΔΨm的一个关键适应.
- 线粒体可以影响表观遗传学,影响细胞生物学,健康,化学暴露和疾病状态.
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