β-Carotene Enhances the Expression of Inflammation-related Genes and Histone H3 K9 Acetylation, K4 Dimethylation, and K36 Trimethylation Around These Genes in Juvenile Macrophage-like THP-1 cells

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Journal Biochem Biophys Rep

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2022 Aug 22

PMID 35990579

Authors

Shinnnosuke Kondo

Rina Suzuki

Yuki Nakashima

Kazuki Mochizuki

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Abstract

β-Carotene is converted into vitamin A in the body and can remove reactive oxygen species. However, it is still unclear whether β-carotene alters the expression levels of inflammation-related genes in macrophages and how this is regulated. In the present study, we investigated whether the administration of β-carotene under hyperglycemic conditions altered the expression level of inflammation-related genes and whether any observed differences were associated with changes in histone modifications in juvenile macrophage-like THP-1 cells. THP-1 cells (from a human monocytic leukemia cell line) were cultured in low glucose (5 mM), high glucose (25 mM), or high glucose (25 mM) + β-carotene (5 μM) media for 1 day, and mRNA expression levels of genes related to oxidative stress and inflammation, and histone modifications were determined by mRNA microarray and qRT-PCR analyses, and chromatin immunoprecipitation assays, respectively. The expression of inflammation-related genes, such as 1RA and and inflammation-associated signaling pathway genes, such as and , were upregulated by β-carotene under high-glucose conditions. Under these conditions, histone H3 lysine 4 (K4) demethylation, H3K36 trimethylation, and H3K9 acetylation around the , , and genes were higher in β-carotene-treated cells than in untreated cells. Treatment of juvenile macrophage-like THP-1 cells with β-carotene under these high glucose conditions induced the expression of inflammation-related genes, K9 acetylation, and K4 di- and K36 trimethylation of histone H3 around these genes.

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