Purified genomic DNA from tissue samples was used for global long interspersed nucleotide element-1 (LINE-1) and miR-137 promoter methylation analyses. The procedure was in detail described in our previous reports36 (link),40 (link). Briefly, we applied Cells-to-CpG Bisulfite Conversion Kit (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA) for bisulphite modification, thereafter the standard PCR with biotin-labelled primers and eventually the pyrosequencing on PyroMark Q96 ID (Qiagen) using PyroMark Gold Q96 reagents (Qiagen). The mean methylation level of analysed CpG motifs was used for quantitative methylation analysis.
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