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Series GSE62591 Query DataSets for GSE62591
Status Public on Feb 13, 2015
Title HEK 293T cells RNA-seq data treated with 5-aza-2-deoxycytidine
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary DNA methylation can be abnormally regulated in human disease and associated with effects on gene transcription that appear to be causally related to pathogenesis. The potential to use pharmacological agents that reverse this dysregulation is therefore an attractive possibility. To test how 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine (5-aza-CdR) influences the genome therapeutically, we exposed non-malignant cells in culture to the agent and used genome-wide assays to assess the cellular response. We found that cells allowed to recover from 5-aza-CdR treatment only partially recover DNA methylation levels, retaining an epigenetic “imprint” of drug exposure. We show very limited transcriptional responses to demethylation of not only protein-coding genes but also loci encoding non-coding RNAs, with a limited proportion of the induced genes acquiring new promoter activation within gene bodies. The data revealed an uncoupling of DNA methylation effects at promoters, with demethylation mostly unaccompanied by transcriptional changes. The limited panel of genes induced by 5-aza-CdR resembles those activated in other human cell types exposed to the drug, and represents loci targeted for Polycomb-mediated silencing in stem cells, suggesting a model for the therapeutic effects of the drug. Our results do not support the hypothesis of DNA methylation having a predominant role to regulate transcriptional noise in the genome, and indicate that DNA methylation acts only as part of a larger complex system of transcriptional regulation. The targeting of 5-aza-CdR effects with its clastogenic consequences to euchromatin raises concerns that the use of 5-aza-CdR has innate tumorigenic consequences, requiring its cautious use in diseases involving epigenetic dysregulation.
 
Overall design mRNA profile of 5 different samples of HEK 293T cells treated with 5-aza-CdR
 
Contributor(s) Ramos M, Wijetunga NA, McLellan AS, Suzuki M, Greally JM
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Submission date Oct 22, 2014
Last update date May 15, 2019
Contact name Maria-Paz Ramos
Organization name Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department Genetics
Lab John Greally
Street address 1301 Morris Park Ave, Price 314
City Bronx
State/province New York
ZIP/Postal code 10461
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL16791 Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Homo sapiens)
Samples (5)
GSM1529688 Control_repA
GSM1529689 Control_repB
GSM1529690 1.0_5azaCdR_repA
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE62590 DNA demethylation by 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine is imprinted targeted to euchromatin and has limited transcriptional consequences
Relations
BioProject PRJNA264488
SRA SRP049156

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GSE62591_RefSeq_Genes.txt.gz 523.0 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE62591_lncRNA_Genes.txt.gz 223.0 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
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