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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 23.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Neurobiol. 2015 Jun 11;131:21–64. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.05.002

Table 2.

Epigenetic dysregulation in aging: chromatin remodeling.

Chromatin
remodeling target
Regulation Epigenetic
modification
Observed in Sample size Methods Reference

H3 Methylation Rat cerebral cortex 12–18 WB Thakur and Kanungo, 1981
H3K9 Acetylation Rat (liver) N.S. WB Kawakami et al., 2009
H3K27 Methylation SAMP8 mice 6 Nano-LC, MALDI-TOF/ Wang et al., 2010a
H3K36 Tri-Methylation TOF MS, WB, IHC
H3K79 Tri-/Methylation
H3S10p Phosphorylation Rat cerebral cortex N.S. WB Kawakami et al., 2009
H4 Methylation Rat cerebral cortex 12–18 WB Thakur and Kanungo, 1981
Monoacetylation Pina et al., 1988
H4K12 Acetylation 16-months old mice 12 ChIP Seq-PCR, Peleg et al., 2010
HAT/HDAC assay
H4K16 Acetylation SIRT-1 transfected cell lines ChiP Pruitt et al., 2006
H4K20 Methylation SAMP8 mice 6 Nano-LC, MALDI-TOF/TOF
MS, WB, IHC
Wang et al., 2010a
H4K20 Tri-methylation Rats (Kidney, Liver) N.S. HPLC Sarg et al., 2002
Enzyme Regulation Modification in Observed in Sample size Methods Reference

HDAC2 Expression SOD mice 48 IHC Chouliaras et al., 2013b
SIRT1 Rat Brain, Senescent cells 24–45,– WB, IHC, RT-PCR Quintas et al., 2012; Sasaki et al.,2006; Sommer et al., 2006
PRC1, PRC2 hAD-MSCs, hUCB-MSCs ICC, WB, RT-PCR Jung et al., 2010

indicates increased expression levels,

indicates decreased expression levels, and

indicates altered expression, not further specified.

Abbreviations: H, histone; HDAC, histone deacetylase; JMJD3; jumonji domain containing 3, K, lysine; p, phosphate modification; PRC; polycomb repressive complex, S, serine; SAMP, senescence-accelerated prone mouse 8; SIRT, sirtuin; SOD, copper-zinc superoxide dismutase 1; hAD-MSC; human adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells, hUCB-MSC; human umbilical cord blood-derived MSCs N.S., not specified; WB, Western blot; Nano-LC, nano liquid chromatography; MALDI-TOF, matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight; TOF MS, time-of-flight mass spectrometry; ICC; immunocytochemistry, IHC, immunohistochemistry; ChIP Seq, chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing; HPLC: high-performance liquid chromatography; RT-PCR, real time-PCR.