Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 195-202.

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Screening of Stem Genes Regulated by H3K9me2 in Tumor Stem Cells

TAO Hong1,ZHANG Shao-ping2,ZHANG Lin-na1,ZHANG Man1,HU Qi-kuan 12   

  1. 1.The Department of Physiology,Ningxia Medical University,Yinchuan 750004;
    2. Ningxia Key Lab of Cerebrocranial Diseases,the National Key Laboratory Incubation Base,Yinchuan 750004
  • Received:2016-06-06 Online:2016-12-25 Published:2016-12-07

Abstract: In order to analyze and compare the modification differences of the methyltransferase G9a and histone(H3K9me2)between in glioma stem cells and non-stem cells,the related genes maintaining the stem of glioma stem cells were screened. By using G9a inhibitor to facilitate U87 cells into spheres,and G9a overexpression to promote the cell differentiation,the sphered glioma stem cells and monolayer non-stem cells were cultured,and there were significant differences in CD133 expression between the two cell models. Then we used H3K9me2 antibody to compare the differences of H3K9me2 modification between glioma stem cells and non-stem cells via ChIP-seq assay. Genes in the range of TSS ± 2 000 bp among the genes with differences were selected for GO analysis. Moreover,10 transcription factors were randomly selected to confirm the expression level by QPCR,and the result of which was almost consistent with that by ChIP-seq assay.

Key words: ChIP-seq, G9a, H3K9me2, Bix01294, U87 cell line

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