Histone H3 acetylation and H3K4 dimethylation pattern of the apoAI gene
cluster in HepG2, Caco-2 and HeLa cells. A, the primer locations
on the apoAI cluster. The primer pairs of 1P, 3P, 4P, and 5P
represent the promoter sites of apoAI, apoCIII, apoAIV, and apoAV,
respectively. The primer pairs of I54, I43, and I31
represent the sites in the intergenic regions. B, the concentrations
of input DNA in different cells were adjusted to the same level and verified
by PCR with the primer 3P. C, PCR conditions for each primer pair.
PCR was performed with 4-fold serial dilution of input DNA. Each primer was in
the linear amplification range. D, representative ethidium
bromide-stained gels of ChIP assay are shown. Lanes 1–9
represent the PCR results from the sites of 5P, I54–310, I54–319,
I54–250, 4P, I43, 3P, I31, and 1P on the apoAI cluster respectively.
Total histone H3 served as an internal control, and rabbit serum and IgG were
used as negative controls. The results are shown as the means ± S.D. of
at least three independent PCRs. Compared with HeLa, p < 0.05 for
difference from HepG2 values (*), and p < 0.05 for
difference from Caco2 values (#). Ac, acetylated histone H3.
Me, dimethylated histone H3K4. E, histone H3 acetylation
pattern of the apoAI cluster in cells. F, histone H3K4 dimethylation
pattern of the apoAI cluster in cells.