Abstract
A reoccurring issue in neuroepigenomic studies, especially in the context of neurodegenerative disease, is the use of (heterogeneous) bulk tissue, which generates noise during epigenetic profiling. A workable solution to this issue is to quantify epigenetic patterns in individually isolated neuronal cells using laser capture microdissection (LCM). For this purpose, we established a novel approach for targeted DNA methylation profiling of individual genes that relies on a combination of LCM and limiting dilution bisulfite pyrosequencing (LDBSP). Using this approach, we determined cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) methylation rates of single alleles derived from 50 neurons that were isolated from unfixed post-mortem brain tissue. In the present manuscript, we describe the general workflow and, as a showcase, demonstrate how targeted methylation analysis of various genes, in this case, RHBDF2, OXT, TNXB, DNAJB13, PGLYRP1, C3, and LMX1B, can be performed simultaneously. By doing so, we describe an adapted data analysis pipeline for LDBSP, allowing one to include and correct CpG methylation rates derived from multi-allele reactions. In addition, we show that the efficiency of LDBSP on DNA derived from LCM neurons is similar to the efficiency obtained in previously published studies using this technique on other cell types. Overall, the method described here provides the user with a more accurate estimation of the DNA methylation status of each target gene in the analyzed cell pools, thereby adding further validity to this approach.
Funder
Joint Programme—Neurodegenerative Disease Research
The Netherlands
The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development
United Kingdom, Medical Research Council
Germany, German Federal ministry of Education and Research
Luxembourg, National Research Fund
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreements
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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