Abstract
Background/Aims: Overwhelming evidence suggests that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is caused by a complicated interplay between the multiple genes and abnormal epigenetic regulation in response to environmental factors. It is becoming apparent that epigenetic factors are significantly associated with the development of the disease. DNA methylation remains the most studied epigenetic modification, and hypermethylation of gene promoters is associated with gene silencing.Methods: DNA methylation alterations may contribute to the many complex diseases development by regulating the interplay between external and internal environmental factors and gene transcriptional expression. In this study, we used 15 tumor suppressor genes (TSGs), originally identified in colon cancer, to detect promoter methylation in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD). Methylation specific polymerase chain reaction and bisulfite sequencing analyses were performed to assess methylation level of TSGs in CD patients.Results: We found 6 TSGs (<i>sFRP1, sFRP2, sFRP5, TFPI2, Sox17</i>, and <i>GATA4</i>) are robustly hypermethylated in CD patient samples. Bisulfite sequencing analysis confirmed the methylation levels of the <i>sFRP1, sFRP2, sFRP5, TFPI2, Sox17</i>, and <i>GATA4</i> promoters in the representative CD patient samples.Conclusions: In this study, the promoter hypermethylation of the TSGs observed indicates that CD exhibits specific DNA methylation signatures with potential clinical applications for the noninvasive diagnosis of IBD and the prognosis for patients with IBD.
Publisher
Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases
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