Mitotic heritability of DNA methylation at intermediately methylated sites is imprecise
Hay, A. D.; Kessler, N. J.; Gebert, D.; Takahashi, N.; Tavares, H.; Karam Teixeira, F.; Ferguson-Smith, A. C.
10.1101/2023.01.27.525699 bioRxivShow abstract
DNA methylation is considered a stable epigenetic mark due to its presumed long-term inheritance through cell divisions. Here, we perform high-throughput bisulfite sequencing on clonally derived cell lines to quantitatively measure mitotic methylation inheritance at the nucleotide level. We find that although DNA methylation is generally faithfully maintained at hypo- and hypermethylated sites, this is not the case at intermediately methylated CpGs. Low fidelity intermediate methylation is interspersed throughout the genome and within genes with no or low transcriptional activity. Moreover, we determine that the probabilistic changes that occur at intermediately methylated sites are due to DNMT1 rather than DNMT3A/3B activity. The observed lack of clonal inheritance at intermediately methylated sites challenges the concept of DNA methylation as a consistently stable epigenetic mark.
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