Hyperglycemia affects global 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in blood genomic DNA through upregulation of SIRT6 and TETs

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Background: Accumulating evidence suggests that epigenetic changes play key roles in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the dynamic regulation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) in diabetic peripheral blood DNA remains to be elucidated. Results: We collected fasting blood samples (104 patients and 108 healthy controls) and glucose-stimulated blood samples at different time points (11 patients and 5 healthy controls underwent oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)), as well as blood samples from six couples of diabetic and control rats. A HPLC-MS/MS system was used for quantifying global 5mC and 5hmC in genomic DNA from white blood cells (WBCs), and qPCR was performed for detecting mRNA expression of SIRT6 and TETs. We found that global 5mC decreased, while global 5hmC increased in both patients and diabetic rats, with lower 5mC being a risk factor of T2DM (OR = 0.524, 95%CI 0.402-0.683, p = 1.64 × 10 -6 ). The OGTT data from patients showed that 5mC declined within 1 h and then returned to the fasting status at 2 h, while 5hmC rose from 0.5 h to 3 h with increasing glucose. However, the similar patterns were not found in the controls. The mRNA expression of TET2, TET3, and SIRT6 was upregulated in patients (p = 0.012, p = 0.026, and p = 0.035, respectively). The similar results were observed in diabetic OGTT and rats. Correlation analysis indicated that SIRT6 was positively correlated with TET2 in humans (r = 0.277, p < 0.001) and rats (r = 0.942, p < 0.001), in addition to a correlation between glucose and SIRT6 (r = 0.162, p = 0.045) and TET2 (r = 0.174, p = 0.036). Conclusions: Hyperglycemia appeared to promote the mRNA expression of SIRT6 and TETs, which in turn might cause the dynamic changes of 5mC and 5hmC in WBCs from T2DM patients.

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Yuan, E. F., Yang, Y., Cheng, L., Deng, X., Chen, S. M., Zhou, X., & Liu, S. M. (2019). Hyperglycemia affects global 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in blood genomic DNA through upregulation of SIRT6 and TETs. Clinical Epigenetics, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-019-0660-y

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