Regulation of DNA methylation on key parasitism genes of Cysticercus cellulosae revealed by integrative epigenomic-transcriptomic analyses

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第一作者： Wang, Xinrui

作者： Wang, Xinrui;Song, Weiyi;Song, Yining;Liu, Mingyuan;Sun, Shumin;Ji, Guanyu;Liu, Xiaolei;Liu, Mingyuan;Liu, Xiaolei

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关键词： Cysticercus cellulosae; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Gene regulation

期刊名称：HEREDITAS （ 影响因子：3.271； 五年影响因子：2.807 ）

ISSN： 1601-5223

年卷期： 2021 年 158 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Background The life cycle of Taenia solium is characterized by different stages of development, requiring various kinds of hosts that can appropriately harbor the eggs (proglottids), the oncospheres, the larvae and the adults. Similar to other metazoan pathogens, T. solium undergoes transcriptional and developmental regulation via epigenetics during its complex lifecycle and host interactions. Result In the present study, we integrated whole-genome bisulfite sequencing and RNA-seq technologies to characterize the genome-wide DNA methylation and its effect on transcription of Cysticercus cellulosae of T. solium. We confirm that the T. solium genome in the cysticercus stage is epigenetically modified by DNA methylation in a pattern similar to that of other invertebrate genomes, i.e., sparsely or moderately methylated. We also observed an enrichment of non-CpG methylation in defined genetic elements of the T. solium genome. Furthermore, an integrative analysis of both the transcriptome and the DNA methylome indicated a strong correlation between these two datasets, suggesting that gene expression might be tightly regulated by DNA methylation. Importantly, our data suggested that DNA methylation might play an important role in repressing key parasitism-related genes, including genes encoding excretion-secretion proteins, thereby raising the possibility of targeting DNA methylation processes as a useful strategy in therapeutics of cysticercosis.

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