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Extensive DNA methylation in promoter regions is observed in gastric cancer with Epstein-barr virus (EBV) infection and EBV infection is the cause to induce this extensive hypermethylaiton phenotype in gastric epithelial cells. More...

Extensive DNA methylation in promoter regions is observed in gastric cancer with Epstein-barr virus (EBV) infection and EBV infection is the cause to induce this extensive hypermethylaiton phenotype in gastric epithelial cells. From transcriptome analysis, we found that TET2, one of the demethylase enzymes, was downregulated by EBV infection in gastric epithelial cell line MKN7. TET2 was overexpressed in a gastric epithelial cell line, GES1, to see its function and the hydroxymethylation, a byproduct of DNA demethylation, acquired genes by TET2 overexpression and methylation acquired genes by EBV infection were significantly overlapped. These suggested that hydroxymethylation by TET2 could function to keep unmethylated status of genes before EBV infection, and TET2 depression could contribute to methylation acquisition of these target genes after EBV infection. Overall design: Hydroxymethylation analysis in TET2 over expressed cell line, and methylation and transcriptome analysis in EBV infected cell lines. Examination of 2 different histone modifications in 2 cell types. Less...