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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 276, Issue 17, 14271-14278, April 27, 2001

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Foreign DNA Integration
GENOME-WIDE PERTURBATIONS OF METHYLATION AND TRANSCRIPTION IN THE RECIPIENT GENOMES^*

Knut Müller, Hilde Heller, and Walter Doerfler

From the Institute of Genetics, University of Köln, D-50931 Köln, Germany

In hamster cells transgenic for the DNA of adenovirus type 12 (Ad12) or for the DNA of bacteriophage , the patterns of DNA methylation in specific cellular genes or DNA segments remote from the site of transgene insertion were altered. In the present report, a wide scope of cellular DNA segments and genes was analyzed. The technique of methylation-sensitive representational difference analysis (MS-RDA) was based on a subtractive hybridization protocol after selecting against DNA segments that were heavily methylated and hence rarely cleaved by the methylation-sensitive endonuclease HpaII. The MS-RDA protocol led to the isolation of several cellular DNA segments that were indeed more heavily methylated in  DNA-transgenic hamster cell lines. By applying the suppressive subtractive hybridization technique to cDNA preparations from nontransgenic and Ad12-transformed or  DNA-transgenic hamster cells, several cellular genes with altered transcription patterns were cloned from Ad12-transformed or  DNA-transgenic hamster cells. Many of the DNA segments with altered methylation, which were isolated by a newly developed methylation-sensitive amplicon subtraction protocol, and cDNA fragments derived from genes with altered transcription patterns were identified by their nucleotide sequences. In control experiments, no differences in gene expression or DNA methylation patterns were detectable among individual nontransgenic BHK21 cell clones. In one mouse line transgenic for the DNA of bacteriophage , hypermethylation was observed in the imprinted Igf2r gene in DNA from heart muscle. Two mouse lines transgenic for an adenovirus promoter-indicator gene construct showed hypomethylation in the interleukin 10 and Igf2r loci. We conclude that the insertion of foreign DNA into an established mammalian genome can lead to alterations in cellular DNA methylation and transcription patterns. It is conceivable that the genes and DNA segments affected by these alterations depend on the site(s) of foreign DNA insertion.

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