利用 MSAP 分析18个芥蓝齐口期的表观遗传多样性

本研究利用MSAP检测18个芥蓝齐口期DNA甲基化水平,分析了表观遗传多样性,探讨DNA甲基化模式对齐口期的影响。结果表明,18个芥蓝齐口期平均为50d,叶片数平均为10片,齐口期和叶片数不相关(相关系数为0.296);变异系数分别为21%和18%;遗传距离分布在0~40,平均值为12.2276,在10.62处分为3类。MSAP分析表明,5对引物组合扩增得到432条多态性条带,201条片段表现出多态性,多态性比率为47%;Nei遗传距离分布在0.004~0.467,平均值为0.0958,表明遗传多样性水平较低;在0.04处分为3类。Mantel测验表明两种分析的遗传距离相关系数为-0.1366,显示齐口期、叶片数与DNA甲基化多态性没有相关性。DNA甲基化模式分析表明,非甲基化片段为110条,甲基化多态性片段为322条,分为3种带型,类型一为非甲基化带型(110条),类型二为甲基化带型(110条),类型三为半甲基化带型(152条),非甲基化片段和半甲基化片段在不同品种之间呈现多态性,甲基化片段在不同品种之间呈现多态性与单态性相差不大,显示MSAP多态性主要来源于非甲基化和半甲基化片段,芥蓝甲基化模式以半甲基化为主。本文推测DNA甲基化水平降低参与芥蓝齐口期调控,MSAP分析既可用于基因组结构研究,又可用于基因组水平上性状的功能研究。     

甜樱桃品种及其砧木的RAPD分析

利用RAPD技术,从130个随机引物中筛选出46个引物,对欧洲甜樱桃、欧洲酸樱桃、马哈利樱桃和野生中国樱桃4个类型樱桃种,以及欧洲甜樱桃与中国樱桃的种间杂交种共15个品种的基因组遗传变异进行分析。结果表明,46个随机引物均得到了稳定可重复的RAPD图谱,扩增出的DNA条带大小在100~2625bp之间,多态性位点数517个,多态性位点百分率为98.85%,每个随机引物扩增出的多态性DNA条带数在4~23条。品种间Nei遗传距离在0.166~0.479之间,平均遗传距离0.329;甜樱桃新品种‘秦樱1号’与‘秦岭玛瑙’、‘CDR-1’等10个樱桃砧木之间的遗传距离在0.248~0.376,并且根据遗传距离可以相互区分,所分析的15个樱桃品种均扩增出了特有的DNA条带,每个樱桃特有标记带在2~17个之间,共扩增出149个特有标记,据此可以进行樱桃品种及砧木的RAPD鉴定。研究认为利用RAPD技术可以在分子水平上对甜樱桃品种及其砧木进行快速鉴定。     

运用MSAP技术测定谷子基因组DNA胞嘧啶甲基化水平

DNA甲基化是真核生物一种重要的表观修饰形式。为了探讨谷子基因组DNA胞嘧啶甲基化的水平和模式,以谷子Setaria italica的两个品种朝谷58号和豫谷1号为实验材料,利用Eco RⅠ和HpaⅡ/MspⅠ双酶切建立适合于谷子基因组的甲基化敏感扩增多态性(MSAP)分析体系。结果表明,从100对MSAP选扩引物中,筛选出32对MSAP引物组合,在朝谷58号和豫谷1号中分别扩增产生1 615、1 482条清晰可辨且可重复的DNA条带,其中包括3种类型的甲基化条带,朝谷58号和豫谷1号的基因组中CCGG序列胞嘧啶甲基化水平分别为6.93%和8.77%。这种谷子不同品种间甲基化水平和分布位点的差异为从表观遗传学的角度培育新品种提供了初步的理论依据和参考。     

二斑叶螨不同发育时期基因组DNA甲基化的F-MSAP分析

DNA甲基化是表观遗传调控的重要机制,在真核生物基因表达调控中发挥重要作用。本研究通过荧光标记的甲基化敏感扩增多态性技术(F-MSAP,fluorescence-labeled methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism)对二斑叶螨Tetranychus urticae Koch 4个龄期(卵、幼螨、若螨、成螨)基因组DNA中CCGG位点的胞嘧啶甲基化水平和模式进行分析。研究结果显示3种甲基化模式:无甲基化(TypeⅠ),半甲基化(TypeⅡ),全甲基化(TypeⅢ)在4个龄期均有出现,扩增的总甲基化位点共有641个,其中半甲基化率(TypeⅡ)均高于全甲基化率(TypeⅢ),各个龄期的平均总甲基化率(TypeⅡ+TypeⅢ)为16.01%,平均半甲基化率为10.24%,平均全甲基化率为5.77%。F-MSAP分析结果表明不同发育时期的二斑叶螨基因组DNA的甲基化水平和模式存在差异。     

草鱼全同胞鱼苗不同个体甲基化位点的差异

本研究通过甲基化敏感扩增多态性(Methylation sensitive amplification polymorphism)对一对草鱼亲本的20个子代甲基化位点进行了研究。从20对引物组合中扩增出311个位点,其中甲基化位点236个,占总扩增位点的75.9%,表明草鱼水花期基因组甲基化水平已经很高,说明它们大部分组织分化基本完成;其中甲基化多态位点65个,占甲基化位点的27.5%,说明这些子代草鱼甲基化位点已经有相当的差异。对其他两对亲本的后代用六个引物组合扩增的结果表明,同一亲本的子代在甲基化模式上有差异可能是普遍现象。本研究结果说明,即使来自同一对草鱼亲本的不同子代个体在基因表达上也有较大的差异,因此很多性状在草鱼后代的分离和一些基因表达的改变有一定的关系。     

红豆杉脱分化过程中的遗传和表观遗传变异

采用扩增片段长度多态性（AFLP）和甲基化敏感扩增多态性（MSAP）技术分析红豆杉脱分化前后基因组DNA和DNA甲基化状态的变化。选用32个AFLP引物组合从红豆杉植株及其愈伤组织分别扩增出1834个片段,无多态性片段产生。这说明红豆杉植株在诱导形成愈伤组织的过程中基因组DNA保持高度的遗传稳定性。另用32个MSAP引物组合从红豆杉植株及其愈伤组织分别扩增出1197个片段,总扩增位点的甲基化水平由脱分化前的12．4％上升为16．2％,表明红豆杉在脱分化过程中的某些位点发生了甲基化。红豆杉脱分化前后的DNA甲基化模式也存在较大差异,说明DNA甲基化对愈伤组织形成有调控作用。     

微卫星DNA标记在近交系大鼠HFJ和MIJ遗传监测中的应用

目的 用24对引物对近交系HFJ和MIJ大鼠的微卫星位点进行多态性分析,并选用近交系Lewis和F344大鼠作为对照,进行比较分析.方法 用传统的酚-氯仿法分别提取4个近交系大鼠MIJ、HFJ、Lewis和F344 的基因组DNA,选取大鼠24个微卫星位点,通过PCR扩增,扩增产物经过非变性聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳和银染,根据电泳结果,比较分析4种品系近交系大鼠之间微卫星多态性.结果 4种品系及品系内不同个体的近交系大鼠在24个微卫星位点上的扩增产物均出现一个条带,MIJ和HFJ大鼠在品系间和品系内均表现为单态性,同Lewis 和F344的扩增结果比较,14个位点显示多态性,有10个位点显示单态性.结论 两个近交系大鼠品系MIJ和HFJ符合近交系要求,筛选出的14个多态性微卫星位点可用于有关近交系大鼠的遗传背景监测.     

病毒侵染对西伯利亚百合DNA甲基化的影响

采用基于AFLP的甲基化敏感扩增多态性(MSAP)技术,用10对引物对侵染百合花叶病毒和丛簇病毒的西伯利亚百合植株和无毒植株进行DNA甲基化水平和模式分析.结果发现,西伯利亚百合无毒植株和病毒侵染植株的平均甲基化水平分别为40.1%和31.5%;平均全甲基化率分别为13.0%和9.7%;半甲基化率分别为27.1%和21.8%.研究表明,百合DNA甲基化多以半甲基化的形式存在;病毒侵染导致百合植株DNA甲基化水平降低,且对整体甲基化水平、全甲基化水平和半甲基化水平均产生了影响;说明病毒侵染百合后植株出现的症状在一定程度上与DNA甲基化存在关联.     

应用MSAP方法检测鸡不同组织基因组的甲基化状态

以白洛克肉鸡和白来航蛋鸡及其杂交F1代基因组为实验材料,应用甲基敏感扩增片段多态性方法(Methylation sensitive amplified polymorphism,MSAP)检测了鸡肌肉、心脏、肝脏和肾脏4个不同组织基因组在CCGG位点的甲基化状态,分析了不同组织的DNA甲基化水平及组织特异性甲基化模式。研究发现:肌肉组织的甲基化水平约为29.7%,肝脏组织约为27.5%,心脏组织约为27.5%,肾脏组织约为26.1%;在鸡3个不同群体及其中3个不同组织间,基因组甲基化程度差异显著(P<0.05);在检测的4个组织中,CCGG序列的全甲基化位点少于半甲基化位点,与植物的相关研究不一致;分离及鉴定了2个组织特异的甲基化片段。结果表明:鸡不同组织基因组的甲基化状态是不同的,同一组织的甲基化水平在不同的群体是不同的,而不同组织甲基化水平的排序在不同的群体是不一致的。这些结果揭示遗传效应可能影响个体的组织甲基化水平。     

低剂量重离子辐射对水稻种子和幼苗DNA甲基化的影响

为了研究低剂量重离子辐射对植物产生的表观遗传学效应,采用高传能线密度（62．2keV／μm）和低剂量（2Gy）的放射性束流^12C对水稻（Oryzasativa,japonica）的干种子和幼苗进行辐射。采用甲基化敏感限制性酶切多态性分析（MSAP）的方法对材料基因组CCGG位点的甲基化状态进行检测。共选用12对选择性引物扩增了共800个条带,其中有65个条带（8．13％）在种子辐射后发现呈多态性,而只有10个条带（1．3％）在幼苗辐射后发现呈多态性。统计学分析显示高能量低剂量的重离子对水稻种子和幼苗的基因组甲基化状态都产生了影响,而且种子受到辐射后产生的甲基化改变明显高于幼苗（P=0．011）。另外,甲基化和去甲基化变化类型的分析也表明种子和幼苗辐射后发生甲基化变化的趋势也不相同。     

Differential DNA methylation between two wing phenotypes adults of Sogatella furcifera

Sogatella furcifera is a major rice pest with wing dimorphism . DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification that plays a role in gene regulation and phenotype variation in most organisms. The objective of the current research was to survey the frequencies and variation of cytosine methylation at CCGG sequences in macropterous female adults (MFA) and brachypterous female adults (BFA) of S. furcifera, and to determine the occurrence of methylation changes associated with wing phenotypes by using methylation‐sensitive amplification polymorphism (MSAP). No differences were found in the average proportions of methylated CCGG sites between MFA and BFA, but there were significant differences for methylation patterns between MFA and BFA. The fully methylated ratio was 5.81% in BFA, much higher than 2.40% in MFA; while the hemi‐methylated ratio was 4.35% in BFA, much lower than 8.35% in MFA. These results provide circumstantial evidence that DNA methylation might be related to wing phenotype variation in S. furcifera. We also cloned and got 14 satisfactory sequences, which displayed variable cytosine methylation patterns between MFA and BFA. All these data will facilitate the researches on the epigenetic mechanisms of insect wing polymorphism. genesis 51:819–826. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

镉胁迫下萝卜基因组DNA甲基化敏感扩增多态性分析

应用甲基化敏感扩增多态性(MSAP)技术分析了重金属镉(cd)胁迫处理后萝卜基因组DNA甲基化程度的变化。结果表明,经50、250和500mg/L CdCl_2处理后,MSAP比率分别为37%、43%和51%,均高于对照(34%);全甲基化率(双链C~mCGG)分别为23%、25%和27%,而其对照为22%,表明重金属CdCl_2胁迫后,某些位点发生了重新甲基化。萝卜叶片DNA中总甲基化水平的增加与CdCl_2处理浓度呈显著正相关。甲基化变异可分为重新甲基化、去甲基化、不定类型以及与对照相同的甲基化模式等类型,Cd胁迫处理引起的植株基因组DNA甲基化程度的提高主要是重新甲基化。     

Changes in DNA methylation fingerprint of Quercus ilex trees in response to experimental field drought simulating projected climate change

Rapid genetic changes in plants have been reported in response to current climate change. We assessed the capacity of trees in a natural forest to produce rapid acclimation responses based on epigenetic modifications. We analysed natural populations of Quercus ilex, the dominant tree species of Mediterranean forests, using the methylation‐sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) technique to assess patterns and levels of methylation in individuals from unstressed forest plots and from plots experimentally exposed to drought for 12 years at levels projected for the coming decades. The percentage of hypermethylated loci increased, and the percentage of fully methylated loci clearly decreased in plants exposed to drought. Multivariate analyses exploring the status of methylation at MSAP loci also showed clear differentiation depending on stress. The PCA scores for the MSAP profiles clearly separated the genetic from the epigenetic structure, and also significantly separated the samples within each group in response to drought. Changes in DNA methylation highlight the large capacity of plants to rapidly acclimate to changing environmental conditions, including trees with long life spans, and our results demonstrate those changes. These changes, although unable to prevent the decreased growth and higher mortality associated with this experimental drought, occurred together with a dampening in such decreases as the long‐term treatment progressed.     

MSAP markers and global cytosine methylation in plants: a literature survey and comparative analysis for a wild‐growing species

Methylation of DNA cytosines affects whether transposons are silenced and genes are expressed, and is a major epigenetic mechanism whereby plants respond to environmental change. Analyses of methylation‐sensitive amplification polymorphism (MS‐AFLP or MSAP) have been often used to assess methyl‐cytosine changes in response to stress treatments and, more recently, in ecological studies of wild plant populations. MSAP technique does not require a sequenced reference genome and provides many anonymous loci randomly distributed over the genome for which the methylation status can be ascertained. Scoring of MSAP data, however, is not straightforward, and efforts are still required to standardize this step to make use of the potential to distinguish between methylation at different nucleotide contexts. Furthermore, it is not known how accurately MSAP infers genome‐wide cytosine methylation levels in plants. Here, we analyse the relationship between MSAP results and the percentage of global cytosine methylation in genomic DNA obtained by HPLC analysis. A screening of literature revealed that methylation of cytosines at cleavage sites assayed by MSAP was greater than genome‐wide estimates obtained by HPLC, and percentages of methylation at different nucleotide contexts varied within and across species. Concurrent HPLC and MSAP analyses of DNA from 200 individuals of the perennial herb Helleborus foetidus confirmed that methyl‐cytosine was more frequent in CCGG contexts than in the genome as a whole. In this species, global methylation was unrelated to methylation at the inner CG site. We suggest that global HPLC and context‐specific MSAP methylation estimates provide complementary information whose combination can improve our current understanding of methylation‐based epigenetic processes in nonmodel plants.     

基于MSAP和SSR标记的高粱甲基化连锁群LGC、LGD的构建

以高粱(Sorghum bicolor(L.)Moench)品种‘B_2V_4’和‘1383-2’杂交获得的F_2群体为材料,通过SSR和MSAP标记检测高粱基因组差异,构建其甲基化遗传连锁群。结果显示,高粱甲基化连锁群LGC含有3个SSR标记和23个甲基化标记,覆盖高粱基因组44.3 cM;甲基化连锁群LGD含有4个SSR标记和8个甲基化标记,覆盖高粱基因组46.2 cM。LGC上甲基化位点仅来源于EcoRⅠ/MspⅠ酶切组合,而LGD上有来源于EcoRⅠ/MspⅠ和EcoRⅠ/HpaⅡ两种酶切组合的甲基化位点。在LGC连锁群Xtxp 69附近检测到一个密集的甲基化位点区域。研究结果表明MSAP标记可以快速检测植物基因组甲基化差异,适用于构建甲基化连锁群。     

Utility of the methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) marker for detection of DNA methylation polymorphism and epigenetic population structure in a wild barley species (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Hordeum brevisubulatum</Emphasis>)

We report here that by using a modified scoring criterion, the methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism or MSAP marker can be used effectively to detect polymorphism in DNA methylation patterns within and among populations of a perennial wild barley species, Hordeum brevisubulatum. Twenty-four selected individual genotypes representing four natural populations of H. brevisubulatum distributed in the Songnen Prairie in northeastern China were studied. The utility of MSAP was evidenced by its detection of high levels of polymorphism in DNA methylation patterns between individuals within a given population, and the clear inter-population differentiation in methylation patterns (methylation-based epigenetic population structure) revealed among the four populations. The resolving power of MSAP to detect DNA methylation polymorphism was found to be comparable with that of a retrotransposon-based sequence-specific amplified polymorphism marker, or SSAP, to detect genetic polymorphism in the same set of plants, suggesting that MSAP with a modified scoring criterion can be used efficiently to detect DNA methylation polymorphism and assess epigenetic population structure in natural plant populations. Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

Analysis of DNA methylation during the germination of wheat seeds

DNA methylation is known to play a crucial role in regulating plant development and organ or tissue differentiation. Here, we focused on the DNA methylation dynamics during the germination of wheat seeds using the adapted AFLP technique so called methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP). The MSAP profiles of genomic DNA in embryo and endosperm tissues of germinating seeds, as well as dry seeds were characterized and notable changes of cytosine methylation were detected. Comparisons of MSAP profiles in different tissues tested showed that the methylation level in dry seeds is the highest. The alteration analysis of cytosine methylation displayed that the number of demethylation events were three times higher than that of de novo methylation, which indicated that the demethylation was predominant in germinating wheat seeds, though the methylation events occurred as well. Sixteen differentially displayed DNA fragments in MSAP profiles were cloned and the sequencing analysis confirmed that nine of them contained CCGG sites. The further BLAST search showed that four of the cloned sequences were located in coding regions. Interestingly, three of the sixteen candidates were homologous to retrotransposons, which indicated that switches between DNA methylation and demethylation occurred in retrotransposon elements along with the germination of wheat seeds.     

DNA-methylation changes in grapevine somaclones following in vitro culture and thermotherapy

The methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) technique using HpaII and MspI isoschizomers was used to analyse DNA-methylation alterations in stressed grapevine plants. The stress used was in vitro propagation via nodal segments and in vitro thermotherapy for virus elimination. A set of pertinent grapevine plants derived from two cultivars (18 plants each for Müller Thurgau and Riesling) was used as stressed variants for analyses. A total of 695 and 700 MSAP bands were recognised and evaluated as present/absent for all analysed variants derived from both cvs. Müller Thurgau and Riesling. Average computed similarity of MSAP banding between analysed variants (Dice/Nei and Li coefficient) was 0.935 for both cultivars. Clustering of variants within resulting dendrograms showed significant differences between woody cuttings despite originating from the one plant. Further, there was a strong ‘donor’ effect of maternal plants on future arrays of DNA methylation in their regenerants. The ‘donor’ effect even seemed to prevail in the effect of stress on final DNA-methylation state in stressed regenerants. Additional MSAP evaluation suggests that thermotherapy induced an additional array of methylation changes when compared with stress caused by in vitro cultivation. From the viewpoint of whether methylation of CCGG loci increased/decreased due to stress, the results showed moderate prevalence for decreasing CCGG loci methylation.     

Newly developed MSAP analysis reveals the different polymorphism patterns in transgenic tobacco plants with the dsRNA MET1 gene

DNA methylation is known to play an important role in the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes. In this study, we isolated NtMET1 from Nicotiana tabacum cv. Havana (SR1) and obtain transgenic plants that reduced MET1 expression level with the double-strand RNA (dsRNA) MET1 gene. Transgenic tobacco plants showed dwarf and abnormal flower development when compared with the wild type. Using methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) analysis, the patterns of cytosine methylation in transformed plants and the wild type were compared. MseI/HpaII selection primers showed an interesting polymorphism, and 153 DNA bands of interest were detected. Among these, 30 selective fragments were sequenced and analyzed with a BLAST search by successful MSAP modifications. The homology search showed that the transposons and tandem repeated sequences were related to the phenotypes. These results suggested that the decreased degree of methylation by dsRNA strategy caused abnormal growth and development in N. tabacum.     

Variation and Patterns of DNA Methylation in Maize C-type CMS Lines and their Maintainers

DNA methylation plays an important role in gene expression regulation during biological development in plants. This study adopted methylation sensitive amplification polymorphism (MSAP) to compare the levels and patterns of cytosine methylation at CCGG sites in maize genome. The tissues assayed included seedlings and tassels of C-type cytoplasmic male sterility (C Huang Zao Si, C 48-2) and its maintainer lines. For each tissue, both C Huang Zao Si and C 48-2 were more methylated than their corresponding maintainers not only on MSAP ratios, but also on the full methylation levels. In different nuclear backgrounds, the two tissues were more methylated in Huang Zao Si than in 48-2, although the two lines shared the same cytoplasm. Full methylation of internal cytosine was the dominant type in the maize genome. In addition, four different classes of methylation patterns were identified in tassels between C-CMS lines and their maintainer lines; these were specific-methylation, demethylation, hypo-methylation, and hyper-methylation. The results obtained demonstrated the power of the MSAP technique for large-scale DNA methylation detection in the maize genome, and suggested the possible association between DNA methylation polymorphism and C-type cytoplasmic male sterility.