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. 2020 Feb 27;11:70. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00070

Table 2.

Top five most significantly (p < 0.05) overrepresented gene ontology (GO) terms and Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) pathways represented by either hypo- or hypermethylated differentially methylated region (DMR)-associated genes implicated by Stress treatment compared to control (p < 0.01).

Hypomethylated p-value Hypermethylated p-value
Term Term
Molecular function
SUMO-specific protease activity 0.005 voltage-gated potassium channel activity in ventricular cardiac muscle cell action potential repolarization 4.96E-04
protein-arginine omega-N asymmetric methyltransferase activity 0.007 voltage-gated potassium channel activity involved in cardiac muscle cell action potential repolarization 0.002
nonmembrane spanning protein tyrosine kinase activity 0.009 oxidoreductase activity, acting on NAD(P)H, quinone or similar compound as acceptor 0.004
histone-arginine N-methyltransferase activity 0.010 cytokine activity 0.006
arginine N-methyltransferase activity 0.014 peptidyl-proline 4-dioxygenase activity 0.006
Biological process
histone methylation 0.003 positive regulation of protein secretion 3.88E-04
smooth muscle contraction 0.005 regulation of macrophage cytokine production 0.001
apoptotic nuclear changes 0.007 ventricular cardiac muscle cell membrane repolarization 0.001
regulation of microtubule cytoskeleton organization 0.007 positive regulation of cytokine secretion 0.001
neuron projection extension in neuron projection guidance 0.007 cardiac muscle cell membrane repolarization 0.001
Cellular component
multivesicular body membrane 0.005 multivesicular body 0.025
T cell receptor complex 0.009 T cell receptor complex 0.045
actin cytoskeleton 0.017 platelet alpha granule 0.045
multivesicular body 0.021
cytoplasmic stress granule 0.024
KEGG pathway
Chemokine signaling pathway 0.020 Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction 1.34E-06
Neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction 0.008
Antigen processing and presentation 0.013
TGF-beta signaling pathway 0.013
Hematopoietic cell lineage 0.015