光暗条件下大蒜DNA甲基化差异的初步研究

用甲基敏感扩增多态性(MSAP)技术分析光暗条件下生长的大蒜DNA甲基化水平差异。结果表明,用8对引物组合扩增出343条带,完全一致的带型240条,不一致的103条。在不一致的条带中,光照条件下相同的47条带与黑暗条件下相同的带型有差异,与黑暗相比光照下出现的去甲基化带28条,有56条差异带在2个处理内个体间也有差异。总的趋势是光照引起大蒜DNA去甲基化。     

AFLP-Based detection of DNA methylation

By using the isoschizomersHpa II andMsp I which display differential sensitivity to cytosine methylation, a modified amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technique has been developed to investigate DNA methylation profiles in eukaryotic organims. Genomic DNA was digested with a mixture ofEcoR I and one of the isoschizomers, and ligated to oligonucleotide adapters. After two rounds of selective PCR amplification, followed by DNA separation on a Long Ranger gel electrophoresis, a subset of restriction fragments can be displayed on an X-ray film. Comparison of AFLP banding patterns betweenHpa II andMsp I revealed the extent of DNA methylation. The technique has been successfully applied in this study to investigate DNA methylation profiles of apple (Malus domestica cv. Gala) genomic DNA extracted from leaves of field-grown adult trees andin vitro-grown shoot cultures. The results showed that up to 25 percent of AFLP bands were derived from methylated sequences, and among those, a few bands unique to either adult trees orin vitro shoots were observed. These results demonstrated that this protocol is effective in identifying methylated DNA profiles. Both first authors have contributed equally to this work.     

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.     

转基因白桦不同月份叶片基因组DNA甲基化水平的变异

目的：以转坛￡抗虫基因白桦的不同月份叶片为实验材料,揭示基因组DNA甲基化水平与植物叶片发育及外源基因表达水平之间的相关性。方法：应用DNA-MSAP方法检测叶片基因组DNACCGG位点甲基化状态,利用Northern杂交技术分析其外源基因表达水平。结果：转基因白桦叶片基因组DNA同年5～9月总甲基化水平分别为21．95％、29．62％、25．41％、41.39％和47．24％,除7月份稍有波动外,整体呈现随着叶片的成熟和衰老渐升高趋势;全部扩增位点中,半、全甲基化位点比例分别为17．99％和15．19％,在各月份叶片中变化较大,其中半甲基化位点比例分别为10．37％、19．14％、14．92％、17．2％和28．83％,全甲基化位点比例依次为11．58％、10．49％、10．50％、24．11％和18．40％。同一无性系外源基因在当年5～7月表达量最高,8～9月呈下降趋势,与基因组甲基化状态呈负相关趋势。结论：转基因白桦叶片的成熟和衰老及外源基因表达量降低均可能与基因组DNA甲基化水平的升高相关。     

Analysis of DNA methylation in cotton hybrids and their parents

The possible role of methylation in the performance of heterosis has been analyzed in many crops. To further study this possibility, we investigated both the differences in cytosine methylation patterns between cotton heterotic hybrids/nonheterotic hybrids and their parental lines and the change in methylation level from seedling stage to flowering stage by using the methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) method. The results showed that the number of demethylation loci in highly heterotic hybrids was greater that in lowly heterotic hybrids, and the level of DNA cytosine methylation in cotton at the seedling stage is higher than that of the flowering stage. The altered methylation patterns at low-copy genomic regions can be confirmed by DNA gel blot analysis. A total of 39 fragments that showed different methylation patterns were cloned and sequenced. The methylation status of these genes was modified differentially in hybrid and parents, suggesting that these genes might play a role in the performance of heterosis. Published in Russian in Molekulyarnaya Biologiya, 2008, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 195–205. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

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。     

Using SD-AFLP and MSAP to assess CCGG methylation in the banana genome

Two amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP)-derived techniques were used to assess methylation at CCGG sites in the banana genome. Assessment of these techniques revealed that, while amplification steps are very reproducible, the ligation step is more subject to variability. Overall, these techniques produced an error rate of 0.2% per analysed band. Statistical approach highlights the fact that sample duplication is necessary to produce reliable results. This study involved 18 primer pairs and found that in the banana genome, roughly 80% of CCGG sites are unmethylated, 5% are methylated at the internal cytosine, and 15% are methylated at the external or both cytosines.     

北京油鸡MSAP毛细管电泳荧光检测技术的建立

采用毛细管电泳荧光检测技术, 对北京油鸡肌肉组织基因组进行甲基化敏感扩增片段多态性(Methylation sensitive amplified polymorphism, MSAP)检测。通过对基因组DNA用量、预扩产物稀释倍数、选择性引物浓度、Mg2+浓度、dNTPs浓度和电泳内标量等6个主要参数进行分析和优化, 建立了适合北京油鸡基因组DNA甲基化分析的MSAP毛细管电泳荧光检测技术。重复实验表明, 建立的毛细管电泳荧光标记的MSAP检测技术能够自动地、高通量地分析北京油鸡基因组的DNA甲基化状态, 也适用于其他动植物基因组的DNA甲基化研究。     

A DNA microarray-based methylation-sensitive (MS)-AFLP hybridization method for genetic and epigenetic analyses

We previously developed a PCR-based DNA fingerprinting technique named the Methylation Sensitive (MS)-AFLP method, which permits comparative genome-wide scanning of methylation status with a manageable number of fingerprinting experiments. The technique uses the methylation sensitive restriction enzyme Not I in the context of the existing Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) method. Here we report the successful conversion of this gel electrophoresis-based DNA fingerprinting technique into a DNA microarray hybridization technique (DNA Microarray MS-AFLP). By performing a total of 30 (15×2 reciprocal labeling) DNA Microarray MS-AFLP hybridization experiments on genomic DNA from two breast and three prostate cancer cell lines in all pairwise combinations, and Southern hybridization experiments using more than 100 different probes, we have demonstrated that the DNA Microarray MS-AFLP is a reliable method for genetic and epigenetic analyses. No statistically significant differences were observed in the number of differences between the breast-prostate hybridization experiments and the breast-breast or prostate-prostate comparisons.Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at Communicated by M. Johnston     

Genome‐wide methylation study of diploid and triploid brown trout (Salmo trutta L.)

The induction of triploidization in fish is a very common practice in aquaculture. Although triploidization has been applied successfully in many salmonid species, little is known about the epigenetic mechanisms implicated in the maintenance of the normal functions of the new polyploid genome. By means of methylation‐sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) techniques, genome‐wide methylation changes associated with triploidization were assessed in DNA samples obtained from diploid and triploid siblings of brown trout (Salmo trutta). Simple comparative body measurements showed that the triploid trout used in the study were statistically bigger, however, not heavier than their diploid counterparts. The statistical analysis of the MSAP data showed no significant differences between diploid and triploid brown trout in respect to brain, gill, heart, liver, kidney or muscle samples. Nonetheless, local analysis pointed to the possibility of differences in connection with concrete loci. This is the first study that has investigated DNA methylation alterations associated with triploidization in brown trout. Our results set the basis for new studies to be undertaken and provide a new approach concerning triploidization effects of the salmonid genome while also contributing to the better understanding of the genome‐wide methylation processes.     

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.     

Bassam和Sanguinetti银染方法在SRAP和TRAP标记中的比较研究

银染作为一种重要的DNA染色方法,对分子标记检测有重要影响.SRAP标记和TRAP标记是两种较为新型的分子标记,近年来得到了广泛应用,尤其在缺少遗传图谱的物种中应用价值更大.以普通烟草种(Nicotiana tabacum L.)烤烟和香料烟品种作为供试材料,对Bassam和Sanguinetti两种银染方法,在标记检测效率、成本及染色效果等方面进行了研究,并对其在SRAP标记和TRAP标记中的应用进行了探讨.结果表明,Sanguinetti银染法比Bassam银染更为简便、经济,染色照片的色阶图说明Sanguinetti染色方法的背景与扩增带区分明显,能够清楚地读带;且该方法能够扩增出很好的SRAP和TRAP标记谱带.因此,推荐在SRAP和TRAP标记检测中采用Sanguinetti银染方法.     

华北地区小丛红景天种群的AFLP遗传多样性

利用扩增片段长度多态性(AFLP)标记, 对分布于华北地区5个山脉的25个小丛红景天(Rhodiola dumulosa)自然种群的776个样品进行了遗传多样性和遗传结构的研究。结果表明: 华北地区小丛红景天种群具有较高的遗传多样性, 4对选择扩增引物共扩增出398条清晰的条带, 其中多态带312条, 种群的平均多态位点百分率为78.46%, 种群总的Nei’s基因多样性为0.364 9, 总Shannon多态性信息指数为0.542 2。华北地区小丛红景天种群间的遗传分化系数G_st = 0.150 7, 基因流Nm = 2.817 9, 表明种群间遗传分化较低, 有一定的基因交流。AMOVA分析结果也表明: 华北地区小丛红景天的遗传变异主要存在于种群内, 地理单元间有一定的遗传分化, 而种群间的遗传分化较低。STRUCTURE的分析和UPGMA聚类分析结果一致, 结果显示地理分布距离相近的种群优先聚在一起。Mantel检验也进一步证实, 华北地区小丛红景天种群的遗传距离与地理距离间呈显著的正相关关系(r = 0.512 9, p < 0.001)。种群的遗传多样性与海拔呈显著的负相关关系(p < 0.05), 而与坡向没有显著相关性。用Dfdist软件分析海拔对遗传多样性的影响, 结果表明没有显著的受选择位点。     

Evaluation of Genetic and Epigenetic Modification in Rapeseed （Brassica napus） Induced by Salt Stress

Salinity is an important limiting environmental factor for rapeseed production worldwide. In this study, we assessed the extent and pattern of DNA damages caused by salt stress in rapeseed plants. Amplified fragment length polymorphism （AFLP） analysis revealed dose-related increases in sequence alterations in plantlets exposed to 10-1000 mmol/L sodium chloride. In addition, individual plantlets exposed to the same salt concentration showed different AFLP and selected region amplified polymorphism banding patterns. These observations suggested that DNA mutation in response to salt stress was random in the genome and the effect was dose-dependant. DNA methylation changes in response to salt stress were also evaluated by methylation sensitive amplified polymorphism （MSAP）. Three types of MSAP bands were recovered. Type Ⅰ bands were observed with both isoschizomers Hpa Ⅱ and Msp Ⅰ, while type Ⅱ and type Ⅲ bands were observed only with Hpa Ⅱ and Msp Ⅰ, respectively. Extensive changes in types of MSAP bands after NaCI treatments were observed, including appearance and disappearance of type Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ bands, as well as exchanges between either type Ⅰand type Ⅱ or type Ⅰ and type Ⅲ bands. An increase of 0.2-17.6% cytosine methylated CCGG sites were detected in plantlets exposed to 10- 200 mmol/L salt compared to the control, and these changes included both de novo methylation and demethylation events. Nine methylation related fragments were also recovered and sequenced, and one sharing a high sequence homology with the ethylene responsive element binding factor was identified. These results demonstrated clear DNA genetic and epigenetic alterations in planUets as a response to salt stress, and these changes may suggest a mechanism for plants adaptation under salt stress.     

Genome methylation patterns across castes and generations in a parasitoid wasp

Environmental influences shape phenotypes within and across generations, often through DNA methylations that modify gene expression. Methylations were proposed to mediate caste and task allocation in some eusocial insects, but how an insect's environment affects DNA methylation in its offspring is yet unknown. We characterized parental effects on methylation profiles in the polyembryonic parasitoid wasp Copidosoma koehleri, as well as methylation patterns associated with its simple caste system. We used methylation‐sensitive amplified fragment length polymorphism (MS‐AFLP) to compare methylation patterns, among (1) reproductive and soldier larvae; and (2) offspring (larvae, pupae, and adults) of wasps that were reared at either high or low larval density and mated in the four possible combinations. Methylation frequencies were similar across castes, but the profiles of methylated fragments differed significantly. Parental rearing density did not affect methylation frequencies in the offspring at any developmental stage. Principal coordinate analysis indicated no significant differences in methylation profiles among the four crossbreeding groups and the three developmental stages. Nevertheless, a clustering analysis, performed on a subset of the fragments, revealed similar methylation patterns in larvae, pupae, and adults in two of the four parental crosses. Nine fragments were methylated at two cytosine sites in all larvae, and five others were methylated at two sites in all adults. Thus, DNA methylations correlate with within‐generation phenotypic plasticity due to caste. However, their association with developmental stage and with transgenerational epigenetic effects is not clearly supported.     

Analysis of DNA methylation patterns of PLBs derived from <Emphasis Type="Italic">Cymbidium hybridium</Emphasis> based on MSAP

The best known and most thoroughly studied epigenetic phenomenon is DNA methylation, which plays an important role in regulating gene expression during plant regeneration and development. In this study, the methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) technique was carried out to determine differences in methylation profiles between two forms of protocorm-like bodies (PLBs), continuously proliferating PLBs (cPLBs) and spontaneously-differenting PLBs (sdPLBs), derived from cultures of Cymbidium hybridium. A total of 72 selective primer combinations were used to assess the status of cytosine methylation of DNA in these tissues. Of 4,440 fragments obtained 911 fragments, each representing a recognition site cleaved by one or both of the isoschizomers (Hpa II and Msp I), were amplified and were significantly different between the two forms of PLBs. Frequency of total and full-methylation of cPLBs and sdPLBs were 26.7/12.2%, 24.1/11.1%, respectively. In addition, 14 types of MSAP patterns detected in the two forms of PLBs belonged to two classes, type I and II. Sequencing of 14 differentially methylated fragments and their subsequent blast search revealed that cytosine methylated 5′-CCGG-3′ sequences were equally distributed in the coding and non-coding regions. Southern blotting was conducted to verify the methylation polymorphism.     

新型标记SRAP在棉花F2分离群体及遗传多样性评价中的适用性分析

将新型分子标记SRAP(Sequence-related Amplified Polymorphism)应用于棉花的遗传研究,并建立了完整的PCR反应体系,此体系稳定可靠、扩增效果好、可重复性强。采用30个SRAP引物组合对海岛棉品种“Pima90”和陆地棉品种“邯郸208”进行比较扩增,29个引物组合可以获得多态性扩增,显示了较高的多态性。对上述两个品种的F2群体进行检测,共产生149个多态性条带,平均每个组合产生5．14个,单引物组合最多可产生13个多态性条带。用SRAP标记对11份陆地棉材料进行遗传多样性检测,30个引物组合中15个组合有多态性,得到22个多态性条带,显示了较高的多态性比率。研究结果表明,SRAP标记可在棉花分子生物学领域中广泛应用。     

Adaptive plasticity and epigenetic variation in response to warming in an Alpine plant

Environmentally induced phenotypic plasticity may be a critical component of response to changing environments. We examined local differentiation and adaptive phenotypic plasticity in response to elevated temperature in half‐sib lines collected across an elevation gradient for the alpine herb, Wahlenbergia ceracea. Using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP), we found low but significant genetic differentiation between low‐ and high‐elevation seedlings, and seedlings originating from low elevations grew faster and showed stronger temperature responses (more plasticity) than those from medium and high elevations. Furthermore, plasticity was more often adaptive for plants of low‐elevation origin and maladaptive for plants of high elevation. With methylation sensitive‐AFLP (MS‐AFLP), we revealed an increase in epigenetic variation in response to temperature in low‐elevation seedlings. Although we did not find significant direct correlations between MS‐AFLP loci and phenotypes, our results demonstrate that adaptive plasticity in temperature response to warming varies over fine spatial scales and suggest the involvement of epigenetic mechanisms in this response.     

荧光标记DNA扩增片段长度多态性方法的改进

采用常规PCR试剂和合成的接头和引物,其中MseⅠ引物为荧光标记物FAM标记,并对扩增片段长度多态性(AFLP)程序进行了改进,优化了PCR反应和电泳条件,建立了一个新的、有效的反应体系,降低了实验费用,经比较实验结果与AFLP荧光标记试剂盒的实验效果一致.     

Genetic Variation Among Rhynchosporium secalis Populations of West Asia and North Africa as Revealed by RAPD and AFLP Analysis

In order to study genetic variation among populations of Rhynchosporium secalis, 65 isolates were sampled from the West Asian and North African regions and used for polymerase chain reaction (PCR)‐based DNA marker analyses [namely random amplified polymorphism DNAs (RAPDs) and amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs)]. The study revealed that genetic diversity among and within populations accounted for 80 and 20%, respectively, of the total genetic diversity, indicating that the local field populations of R. secalis in West Asia and North Africa originated from genetically diverse source populations. Furthermore, high genetic similarity among isolates from the same location suggests that scald populations originated from a local founder population, possibly through rain‐splash‐dispersed conidia.