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Nucleic Acids Research, 1988, Vol. 16, No. 7 2749-2763
© 1988

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Differences in methylation patterns of the {alpha} fetoprotein and albumin genes in hepatic and non hepatic developing rat tissues

Isabelle Tratner1,*, Jean-Louis Nahon1 and José Maria Sala-Trepat+

Laboratoire d'Enzymologie du CNRS 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

*To whom corresponence should be addressed

Received February 10, 1988. Accepted March 1, 1988.

By use of different restriction enzymes sensitive to internal cytosine methylation (HpaII, AvaI, HhaI) we have analysed the methylation patterns of albumin and AFP genes in tissues and c ell lines with high (liver, yolk sac, hepatoma cell lines), low (fetal and neonatal kidney) or undetectable (spleen, JF1 fibroblasts) expression of either gene. We show that expression of the AFP gene is associated to the demethylation of a whole region or domain extending from –4 to +3 Kb. Moreover, demethylation of a site located at the upstream limit of this domain appears to be correlated with the commitment of the cell type to synthesize AFP. As concerns the albumin gene. we show that the domain in vhich demethylation is correlated with active gene transcription in hepatoma cell lines (27) has different borders than in tissue. This differe nce might be related to the different amounts of mRNA synthesized or to an alteration in gene regulation in tumor cells. Finally, we shov that low expression of albumin and AFP genes in fetal and neonatal kidney is not correlated with domain demethylation, suggesting that the regulatory mechanisms of expression of these genes are different in kidney as compared with liver.

+This article is dedicated to the memory of J.M.Sala-Trepat who died while this work was in progress.

1Present address: The Salk Institute, PO Box 85800, San Diego, CA 92138-9216, USA.


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