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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 45, Issue -, Pages 30-42Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.05.003
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; Epigenetics; Pyramidal neurons; DNA methylation; 5-Methylcytosine (5mC); 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC)
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- J.O. and J.R. Wicking Trust
- National Health and Medical Research Foundation
- Cancer Institute of New South Wales
- Alzheimer's Australia Dementia Research Foundation
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There is increasing evidence that epigenetic alterations may play a role in Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet, there is little information regarding epigenetic modifications in specific cell types. We assessed DNA methylation (5-methylcytosine [5mC]) and hydroxymethylation (5-hydroxymethylcytosine [5hmC]) marks specifically in neuronal and glial cell types in the inferior temporal gyrus of human AD cases and age-matched controls. Interestingly, neurofilament (NF)-labeled pyramidal neurons that are vulnerable to AD pathology are deficient in extranuclear 5mC in AD cases compared with controls. We also found that fewer astrocytes exhibited nuclear 5mC and 5hmC marks in AD cases compared with controls. However, there were no alterations in 5mC and 5hmC in disease-resistant calretinin interneurons or microglia in AD, and there was no alteration in the density of 5mC- or 5hmC-labeled nuclei in near-plaque versus plaque-free regions in late-AD cases. 5mC and 5hmC were present in a high proportion of neurofibrillary tangles, suggesting no loss of DNA methylation marks in tangle bearing neurons. We provide evidence that epigenetic dysregulation may be occurring in astrocytes and NF-positive pyramidal neurons in AD. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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