Particulate matter-induced changes in DNA methylome and transcriptome

颗粒物诱导的 DNA 甲基化组和转录组变化

• 批准号: 9098231
• 负责人: Gokhan M. Mutlu
• 金额: $ 62.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9098231
• 关键词: Abate; Acute; Adolescent; Adult; Affect; Age; Age-Months; Air Pollution; Alveolar Cell; Alveolar Macrophages; Aorta; Biological; Blood Cells; Breathing; C57BL/6 Mouse; Cardiac Myocytes; Cardiopulmonary; Cells; Cessation of life; Chronic; DNA; DNA Methylation; DNA Modification Process; Data; Development; Disease; Early identification; Elderly; Endothelial Cells; Environmental Health; Epigenetic Process; Epithelial Cells; Epithelium; Exposure to; Female; Gene Expression; Genetic; Genetic Transcription; Harvest; Heart; Human; Inbred BALB C Mice; Individual; Leukocytes; Life; Longevity; Lung; Mono-S; Morbidity - disease rate; Mouse Strains; Mus; Nasal Epithelium; Nose; Nuclear; Particulate Matter; Pattern; Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell; Play; Pulmonary Heart Disease; Repetitive Sequence; Risk; Role; Structure of parenchyma of lung; Switch Genes; Testing; Time; Tissue-Specific Gene Expression; Tissues; age effect; aged; air filter; alveolar type II cell; base; burden of illness; clinically relevant; genome-wide; global environment; in vivo; macrophage; male; methylation pattern; methylome; monocyte; mortality; mouse model; peripheral blood; pregnant; premature; prenatal exposure; public health relevance; research study; response; seal; sex; transcriptome; transcriptome sequencing; whole genome

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Particulate matter (PM) air pollution is a global environmental health problem that causes 3.7 million premature deaths annually, representing 6.7% of all deaths worldwide. These deaths are largely due to increased acute cardiopulmonary disease. Although efforts to abate PM levels led to reduction in PM-induced morbidity and mortality, the association between PM and cardiopulmonary disease still persists. There is need for early identification of individuals who are at risk for PM-induced cardiopulmonary disease to reduce the burden of disease further. Exposure to PM is associated with epigenetic modifications of DNA such as DNA methylation (5mC) and hydroxymethylation (5hmC) that regulate gene transcription. Assessment of these epigenetic changes may help with the identification of individuals at risk for development of PM-induced cardiopulmonary diseases. Increasing number of studies demonstrate that PM induces epigenetic changes but the implications of these findings are limited because these studies focused on the methylation patterns of the repetitive elements without detailed analysis of the whole genome. Furthermore, the studies were done in surrogate cells such as blood leukocytes and nasal epithelial cells without any correlation in target tissues. It is not known whether changes in DNA methylation or hydroxymethylation in peripheral blood monocytes can also be found in the target tissue or cell such as lung epithelial cells, alveolar macrophages or aortic endothelial cells. In preliminary studies, we found that PM treatment caused epigenetic changes characterized by reduction in 5mC and increased 5hmC in nasal and lung epithelial cells and alveolar macrophages. In addition to epigenetic changes, PM induced similar expression of some genes and differential expression of others in primary human nasal and lung epithelial cells ex vivo and in a murine model of PM exposure in vivo. PM-induced changes in gene expression and DNA methylation in primary human nasal epithelial cells were different among individuals as well as between males and females suggesting an important role for host-related factors such as genetics, age and sex in influencing the PM-induced responses. Based on our preliminary data, we hypothesized that changes in DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation and the gene expression (RNA-seq) in surrogate cells (nasal epithelial cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells) can be used to predict those changes in target tissues (lung epithelial cells, and macrophages, heart and aorta). Using a clinically relevant murine model of PM exposure via inhalation, in Aim 1, we will determine the how PM-induced changes in DNA methylome and transcriptome differ in surrogate (nasal epithelium, and peripheral blood monocytes) and target cells (alveolar epithelial cells, macrophages, heart and aorta). In Aim 2, we will determine whether the host related factors (strain, sex and age) affect PM-induced changes in DNA methylome and transcriptome in surrogate and target cells and in Aim 3, we will determine whether the PM-induced changes in DNA methylome and transcriptome in surrogate and target cells persist throughout the lifespan.

 描述（由申请人提供）：颗粒物 (PM) 空气污染是一个全球性的环境健康问题，每年导致 370 万人过早死亡，占全球死亡人数的 6.7%。降低 PM 水平可降低 PM 引起的发病率和死亡率，但 PM 与心肺疾病之间的关联仍然存在，因此需要及早识别有 PM 引起的心肺疾病风险的个体。进一步减少疾病负担的暴露与 DNA 的表观遗传修饰有关，例如调节基因转录的 DNA 甲基化 (5mC) 和羟甲基化 (5hmC)。对这些表观遗传变化的评估可能有助于识别处于危险中的个体。越来越多的研究表明，PM 会引起表观遗传变化，但这些发现的意义有限，因为这些研究侧重于重复元件的甲基化模式，而没有对整体进行详细分析。此外，这些研究是在血液白细胞和鼻上皮细胞等替代细胞中进行的，与靶组织中没有任何相关性。目前尚不清楚外周血单核细胞中是否也存在DNA甲基化或羟甲基化的变化。在初步研究中，我们发现PM治疗引起以5mC减少和5hmC增加为特征的表观遗传变化。在鼻和肺上皮细胞以及肺泡巨噬细胞中，除了表观遗传变化外，PM 在离体原代人鼻和肺上皮细胞以及体内 PM 暴露的小鼠模型中诱导了一些基因的相似表达和其他基因的差异表达。人原代鼻上皮细胞中基因表达和 DNA 甲基化的变化在个体之间以及男性和女性之间是不同的，这表明宿主相关因素（如遗传、年龄和性别）在影响 PM 诱导的反应中发挥着重要作用。根据我们的初步数据，我们发现替代细胞（鼻上皮细胞和外周血单核细胞）中 DNA 甲基化和羟甲基化以及基因表达 (RNA-seq) 的变化可用于预测靶组织（肺上皮细胞）中的这些变化在目标 1 中，我们将使用通过吸入吸入 PM 暴露的临床相关小鼠模型，确定 PM 如何引起 DNA 变化。甲基化组和转录组在替代细胞（鼻上皮细胞和外周血单核细胞）和靶细胞（肺泡上皮细胞、巨噬细胞、心脏和主动脉）中存在差异。在目标 2 中，我们将确定宿主相关因素（应变、性别和年龄）是否会产生影响。 PM 诱导的替代细胞和靶细胞中 DNA 甲基化组和转录组的变化，在目标 3 中，我们将确定 PM 是否诱导 DNA 甲基化组和转录组的变化替代细胞和靶细胞在整个生命周期中持续存在。