The effect of DNA methylation inhibitor 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine on human endometrial stromal cells  

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Logan, Philip C. ; Ponnampalam, Anna P. ; Rahnama, Fahimeh

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Human Reproduction vol. 25 no. 11 (Nov. 2010), page 2859-2869.
Topik: decidualization; endometrial stromal cell; human endometrium; epigenetic; DNA methylation

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: H07.K.2010.04 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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BACKGROUND Decidualization, the differentiation of endometrial stromal cells is a crucial step for successful implantation of an embryo, development of the placenta and completion of pregnancy to term. Epigenetic mechanisms are thought to be strongly involved in the regulation of processes controlling implantation, placentation, organ formation and foetal growth. Recent studies suggest that decreased DNA methylation facilitates a receptive endometrium. Hence, the aim of this project was to compare the transcriptional profile changes induced by the inhibitor of DNA methylation, 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine (AZA) to the transcriptional changes that happen during decidualization. METHODS AND RESULTS When DNA methylation was inhibited in a human endometrial stromal cell (HESC) line with AZA, it resulted in the fibroblast-like stromal cells being transformed into decidual-like morphology after 9 days. Expression of both prolactin and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1, the two established decidualization marker genes, were minimally up-regulated by AZA after 10 days of treatment. In a microarray of a three-way experiment between AZA-treated and oestradiol/progestin/cAMP-treated [medroxy-progesterone acetate (MPA)-mix] HESC and the untreated controls, we detected more than 1000 common genes that had a significant difference of expression compared with the controls. AZA-treated cells in the microarray significantly expressed 76 genes in common with the MPA-mix treated cells, and AZA treatment also differentially regulated 148 genes independently to that of MPA-mix treatment. The MPA-mix regulated at least 36 genes in the cell adhesion, extracellular matrix remodelling and RhoGTPase cytoskeletal reorganization pathway; AZA regulated 19 of these genes in common and 15 other RhoGTPase pathway genes. CONCLUSION AZA induced some decidualization-like responses of endometrial stromal cells independently of progestins or cAMP, possibly via the cytoskeletal reorganization pathway of the RhoGTPase family.

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