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Metabolic and Immunological Shifts during Mid-to-Late Gestation Influence Maternal Blood Methylation of CPT1A and SREBF1

Authors :
Shilpa Pavethynath
Chihiro Imai
Xin Jin
Naomi Hichiwa
Hidemi Takimoto
Motoko Okamitsu
Iori Tarui
Tomoko Aoyama
Satoshi Yago
Ayako Fudono
Masaaki Muramatsu
Naoyuki Miyasaka
Noriko Sato
Source :
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 20, Iss 5, p 1066 (2019)
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2019.

Abstract

Mid-to-late gestation is a unique period in which women experience dynamic changes in lipid metabolism. Although the recent intensive epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) using peripheral leukocytes have revealed that lipid-related traits alter DNA methylation, the influence of pregnancy-induced metabolic changes on the methylation levels of these differentially methylated sites is not well known. In this study, we performed a prospective cohort study of pregnant women (n = 52) using the MassARRAY EpiTYPER assay and analyzed the methylation levels of variably methylated sites, including CPT1A intron 1 and SREBF1 intron 1 CpGs, which were previously verified to be robustly associated with adiposity traits. Although methylation of SREBF1 was associated with body mass index (BMI) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol at mid-gestation, this association was attenuated at late gestation, which was consistent with the metabolic switch from an anabolic to a catabolic state. However, the BMI association with CPT1A intron 1 methylation appeared to strengthen at late gestation; this association was mediated by pre-pregnancy BMI-dependent change in the leukocyte proportion during mid-to-late gestation. Thus, the methylation of adiposity-related differentially methylated regions was sensitive to metabolic and immunological changes during mid-to-late gestation.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
14220067
Volume :
20
Issue :
5
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.96ad8ac095b462f81eb79c09b0ff318
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20051066