Asymmetric Strand Segregation: Epigenetic Costs of Genetic Fidelity?
Asymmetric strand segregation has been proposed as a mechanism to minimize effective mutation rates in epithelial tissues. Under asymmetric strand segregation, the double-stranded molecule that contains the oldest DNA strand is preferentially targeted to the somatic stem cell after each round of DNA replication. This oldest DNA strand is expected to have fewer errors than younger strands because some of the errors that arise on daughter strands during their synthesis fail to be repaired. Empirical findings suggest the possibility of asymmetric strand segregation in a subset of mammalian cell lineages, indicating that it may indeed function to increase genetic fidelity. However, the implications of asymmetric strand segregation for the fidelity of epigenetic information remain unexplored. Here, I explore the impact of strand-segregation dynamics on epigenetic fidelity using a mathematical-modelling approach that draws on the known molecular mechanisms of DNA methylation and existing rate estimates from empirical methylation data. I find that, for a wide range of starting methylation densities, asymmetric—but not symmetric—strand segregation leads to systematic increases in methylation levels if parent strands are subject to de novo methylation events. I found that epigenetic fidelity can be compromised when enhanced genetic fidelity is achieved through asymmetric strand segregation. Strand segregation dynamics could thus explain the increased DNA methylation densities that are observed in structured cellular populations during aging and in disease.
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. PLoS Genet 5(6): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000509
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Summary
Asymmetric strand segregation has been proposed as a mechanism to minimize effective mutation rates in epithelial tissues. Under asymmetric strand segregation, the double-stranded molecule that contains the oldest DNA strand is preferentially targeted to the somatic stem cell after each round of DNA replication. This oldest DNA strand is expected to have fewer errors than younger strands because some of the errors that arise on daughter strands during their synthesis fail to be repaired. Empirical findings suggest the possibility of asymmetric strand segregation in a subset of mammalian cell lineages, indicating that it may indeed function to increase genetic fidelity. However, the implications of asymmetric strand segregation for the fidelity of epigenetic information remain unexplored. Here, I explore the impact of strand-segregation dynamics on epigenetic fidelity using a mathematical-modelling approach that draws on the known molecular mechanisms of DNA methylation and existing rate estimates from empirical methylation data. I find that, for a wide range of starting methylation densities, asymmetric—but not symmetric—strand segregation leads to systematic increases in methylation levels if parent strands are subject to de novo methylation events. I found that epigenetic fidelity can be compromised when enhanced genetic fidelity is achieved through asymmetric strand segregation. Strand segregation dynamics could thus explain the increased DNA methylation densities that are observed in structured cellular populations during aging and in disease.
Introduction
Cairns proposed [1] that asymmetric strand segregation could help to minimize effective mutation rates in epithelial cells, which undergo frequent division and thus are highly susceptible to mutation. Under Cairns's model, after each round of DNA replication, the double-stranded molecule that contains the oldest DNA strand is preferentially targeted to the daughter cell that will be a somatic stem cell. The oldest DNA strands are expected to contain fewer errors than are daughter strands because some of the errors that arise on daughter strands during their synthesis fail to be repaired. Empirical findings suggest the possibility of asymmetric strand segregation in some [2]–[5] — but not all [6],[7] — mammalian cell lineages.
A few reports have discussed possible epigenetic causes and consequences of asymmetric strand segregation [8]–[15]. Klar [8] reported that epigenetic differences between DNA strands encode developmental asymmetries in fission yeast, and, more recently, suggested that breakdown of strand asymmetry could lead to disease in humans [10]. Merok et al. [11] noted that asymmetric strand segregation, which they report for cultured mammalian cells, could have consequences for the integrity of information encoded in epigenetic modifications of DNA. Cairns suggested that epigenetic changes to older strands could help to mark the stem cells that preferentially retain them [13], and Rando [14] proposed that epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, could provide information that would distinguish among DNA strands of different ages. Here, I use a population-epigenetic model of an epithelial crypt to investigate in detail the potential consequences of asymmetric strand segregation for the fidelity of epigenetic information.
Results
I compared the dynamics of mean and oldest-strand methylation densities under asymmetric and symmetric strand segregation (Figure 1). Three key observations held for both high (Figure 2) and low (Figure 3) initial methylation densities: (i) when de novo methylation events were permitted to occur on both parent and daughter strands, asymmetric strand segregation resulted in population-mean and oldest-strand methylation densities that increased monotonically (upper curves, Figures 2 and 3); (ii) when de novo methylation events occured on both parent and daughter strands, symmetric segregation yielded population-mean and oldest-strand methylation densities that, although dynamic, remained very near the predicted equilibrium (middle curves, Figures 2 and 3); (iii) when de novo methylation events were limited to the daughter strand, population-mean and oldest-strand methylation densities under both asymmetric and symmetric segregation remained very close to starting values (dotted lines, Figures 2 and 3). Thus, for a wide range of starting methylation densities, asymmetric — but not symmetric — strand segregation leads to systematic increases in methylation levels, if parent strands are subject to de novo methylation events.
Discussion
The population-epigenetic model I develop here reveals that asymmetric strand segregation in somatic stem cells could lead to monotonic increases in DNA methylation densities in structured cellular populations. These increases are predicted to occur when de novo methylation occurs on parent as well as daughter strands, but not when de novo methylation events are limited to the daughter strand.
The predictions of my model are made using empirical estimates of methylation rates in differentiated cells, for which substantial amounts of data are available. Further work will be necessary directly to ascertain methylation rates in somatic stem cells. Nevertheless, the essential findings of my study are consistent across a broad range of parameter values (see, for instance, Figures 2 and 3), suggesting that these results will hold even if methylation densities and rates differ appreciably between differentiated and somatic stem cells.
The accumulation of aberrant methylation predicted by my model may have different time courses depending on the biological properties of a given lineage of somatic stem cells, and on the initial methylation density of a given locus. When somatic stem cell division always gives rise to one stem cell and one differentiated cell, as I model here, substantial increases in DNA methylation densities can occur over just a few cell divisions (Figures 2). When somatic stem cell division sometimes gives rise to one stem cell and one differentiated cell, and sometimes to two somatic stem cells, somewhat lower rates of increase could occur. The rate of increase will also depend on the initial DNA methylation density (compare, for instance, Figures 2 and 3). Lorincz et al. [16] found that progression to dense methylation is especially likely for genomic regions that have already attained intermediate methylation densities. In light of this finding, it seems plausible that even slow or transient increases in DNA methylation could raise methylation densities to a threshold sufficient to trigger more substantial increases.
What might be the functional implications of the increased DNA methylation densities predicted under asymmetric strand segregation? The accumulation of methyl groups on a long-lived DNA strand could serve as a signal to guide asymmetric strand segregation itself [17], or to distinguish stem cells from differentiated cells [13]. My findings could also help to explain the positive correlation observed between age and methylation density in endometrial [18] and intestinal [19] tissues. Both of these are rapidly-dividing tissues of the sort initially predicted by Cairns [1], and reported by some groups [4], to undergo asymmetric strand segregation. In contrast, slowly-dividing cells, such as those in the hematopoetic lineage, have constant methylation densities [20]–[23] and have been reported not to undergo asymmetric strand segregation [6]. Thus, the systematic increases in DNA methylation densities predicted here may be specific to the rapidly-dividing lineages Cairns initially discussed [1].
My results may also have implications for the etiology of cancer in humans. Several epithelial cancers are associated with reductions in epigenetic fidelity, including the accumulation of aberrant methylation and abnormal gene silencing [24],[25]. Barrett's esophagus illustrates the potential relevance of these findings. The esophageal epithelium in Barrett's esophagus contains abnormal intestinal crypt-like structures, and is characterized by abrupt increases in DNA methylation densities and consequent silencing of loci critical to cell-cycle regulation [26].
Thus, it is possible that directional change in epigenetic information may be a cost of the increased genetic fidelity achieved through asymmetric strand segregation, with implications for human disease.
Models
Modelling an Epithelial Crypt
I developed a simplified model of an epithelial crypt with which to track methylation dynamics (Figure 1). Each crypt consists of one somatic stem cell, and four differentiated cells. At each round of stem-cell division, one terminally differentiated cell is produced, and one stem cell is produced. The top-most of the terminally differentiated cells is sloughed off at the epithelial surface. Segregation of the oldest DNA strand always to the stem cell characterizes asymmetric strand segregation (Figure 1a); segregation of the oldest DNA strand at random to the stem and terminally differentiated cells characterizes symmetric segregation (Figure 1B).
Modelling DNA Methylation Events in an Epithelial Crypt
Maintenance and de novo methylation
I modelled replication and methylation dynamics for a single, methylated locus such as one of those on the hemizygous X chromosome in a human male, or on the inactive X chromosome in a human female. Prior to cell division, the locus undergoes semi-conservative replication, producing two double-stranded DNA molecules. Each molecule is composed of a parent strand from the original double-stranded molecule, and a newly-synthesized daughter strand. The model to be described in detail below compares methylation dynamics under asymmetric (Figure 1A) and symmetric (Figure 1B) strand segregation.
Methyl groups are added to CpG cytosines in DNA by two different processes: maintenance methylation and de novo methylation. Maintenance methylation is performed by maintenance methyltranferases, which exhibit a preference for hemimethylated CpG/CpG dyads, are thought to localize to the replication fork, and operate principally during DNA replication [27]. De novo methyltransferases do not seem to exhibit this preference for hemimethylated sites, and may be active throughout the mammalian cell cycle [28]–[30].
Here, the maintenance methylation rate, , is defined as the probability that a methyl group is added to a daughter-strand CpG, given that the complementary CpG on the parent strand is methylated. Maintenance events produce fully methylated CpG/CpG dyads. Maintenance methylation fails at rate , yielding hemimethylated dyads that have a methylated CpG on the parent strand, and an unmethylated, complementary CpG on the daughter strand [31]. The daughter strand de novo methylation rate, , is defined as the probability that a methyl group is added to a daughter-strand CpG that remains unmethylated after DNA replication and maintenance methylation. The parent strand de novo methylation rate, , is defined as the probability that a methyl group is added to an unmethylated CpG on the parent strand. I assume, as before [31], that methyl groups are not actively removed from DNA in differentiated cells, consistent with the lack of evidence that active demethylation occurs in epithelial cell lineages. My results would not apply in cases where there is net loss of DNA methylation from individual DNA strands, such as in early mammalian development [32].
The question of whether or not de novo methylation events can occur in vivo on the parent strand was addressed experimentally during the 1970s, yielding conflicting data [33]–[36]. More recent modelling and statistical studies of epigenetic fidelity have used a variety of approaches to accommodate this continued uncertainty. Otto and Walbot [37] assumed that de novo methylation occurs simultaneously on parent and daughter strands. In our previous model [31], we considered two scenarios: that de novo methylation occurs independently and at equal rates on the two strands, and alternately, that it is limited to the daughter strand. A new statistical study by Fu et al. (Fu et al., Manuscript in Preparation) found far greater support for the presence of parent-strand de novo methylation than for its absence, at least in lymphocytes from adult humans. Because it remains unclear whether de novo methylation on the parent strand is a universal phenomenon or whether it is, instead, limited to a subset of cell lineages or developmental stages, I here consider methylation dynamics both with and without parent-strand de novo methylation.
Mathematical Model of DNA Methylation Events and Strand Segregation in an Epithelial Crypt
(1)
I developed vector (1) to record the methylation density of each of the 10 individual strands of the five DNA molecules in the epithelial crypts (Figure 1). The initial state of the epithelial crypt is given by .
The first element of (1), “1”, is used to implement the assumption that individual methyl groups are not lost once they are incorporated. Elements two through eleven represent the methylation densities of the ten individual strands of DNA in the five double-stranded molecules of the crypt cells. These elements are best considered in pairs. Elements two and three represent the methylation states of the parent and daughter strands in the founding somatic stem cell. In particular, the second element gives the methylation density of the oldest parent strand at the start of the simulation. This strand is assumed to have started with methylation density , as calculated under our previous model [31] from the chosen parameter values for maintenance and de novo methylation events. It then acquired additional methyl groups through parent strand de novo methylation events occurring at rate , for those cases where is greater than 0. The third element gives the initial methylation density of the daughter strand in the founding somatic stem cell, as calculated from the starting methylation density of the parent strand, , using our earlier model [31]. Elements four and five represent methylation states of the parent and daughter strands in the first of the four differentiated cells, and so on up to elements ten and eleven, which give the methylation states of the parent and daughter strands in the differentiated cell closest to the epithelial surface. Because I start by modelling the establishment of the crypt, the strands represented by vector positions three through eleven have not yet been synthesized at the start of the simulation, and therefore have methylation densities of zero. Methylation densities of strands that do not yet exist are excluded from the calculation of population-mean densities.(2)
I developed matrix (2) to model the occurrence of methylation events on individual strands of DNA molecules, and to track their progression through the simplified epithelial crypt described above.
The first row of matrix is a placeholder, and is used to regenerate the “1” that is the first element of vector . The second row of the matrix is used to calculate the updated methylation density of the oldest DNA strand. The third row of the matrix is used to simulate methylation events on the daughter strand that has just been produced through replication of the oldest DNA strand. This density is determined by the maintenance methylation rate, , and the daughter-strand de novo methylation rate, . The fourth row of the matrix is used to simulate methylation events on the parent strand in the newest differentiated cell, and records methylation events that occur through parent-strand de novo methylation, at rate . The fifth row of the matrix is used to simulate methylation events on the daughter strand in the newest differentiated cell, and records methylation events that occur by daughter-strand de novo methylation, at rate . The sixth through eleventh rows of the matrix are used to simulate the progression of existing DNA molecules through the crypt. As noted above, we assume that methyl groups are never removed from a strand once they have been added, and are added to a strand either during the round in which it is synthesized, or during subsequent rounds in which it serves as a parent strand in DNA replication. Rows 6, 8 and 10 simulate the movements of strands that are parents in their respective cells; rows 7, 9 and 11 simulate the movements of strands that are daughters in their respective cells. Upon replication and cell division, cells containing the various DNA molecules advance one cell-position toward the epithelial surface.
Both asymmetric and symmetric strand segregation are modelled using matrix , with slight differences in the treatment of the resulting updated . To model a single round of DNA replication and cell division under asymmetric strand segregation, I multiplied matrix by vector . To investigate methylation trajectories over multiple rounds of DNA replication and cell division, I multiplied matrix by vector recursively up to 500 times. This large number of divisions would be unreasonable for many tissues, but is likely appropriate for the rapidly-dividing cells of the endometrium [18] and intestinal epithelium [38] over a period of several years [39].
To model a single round of DNA replication and cell division under symmetric strand segregation, I used a similar approach, multiplying matrix by vector , but included for each round a random draw of a number between 0 and 1. When the random number was less than or equal to 0.5, I retained the vector that resulted from this initial multiplication, simulating retention of the oldest DNA strand in the somatic stem cell. When the random number was greater than 0.5, I simulated the export of the oldest strand to the differentiated daughter cell by exchanging the methylation densities given in vector positions two and three with those given in vector positions four and five. I repeated this process of multiplication, random number selection, and vector rearrangement for up to 500 rounds of DNA replication, methylation events, and cell division.
Choice of Parameter Values for Maintenance and De Novo Methylation Events
Several authors have investigated the rate of maintenance methylation, , yielding estimates that range from 0.95 to 0.999 [31], [40]–[43] (Fu et al., Manuscript in Preparation). Here, I assumed .
Comparatively few studies have investigated the rate of de novo methylation. The estimates that do exist exhibit substantial variation. Pfeifer et al. [40] estimated a de novo methylation rate of 0.05, Laird et al. [41] estimated a rate of 0.17, under the assumption that de novo events are limited to the daughter strand. Results from Genereux et al. [31] suggest that part of the variation in these estimates of the de novo methylation rate may be attributable to bona fide biological variation among CpG cytosine sites, and perhaps among loci.
For de novo methylation rates, I first chose parameter values that yield an expected equilibrium methylation density of 0.8 under the model described previously [31], and assuming . To meet this condition, the sum of parent, and daughter, , de novo rates must be 0.1. To accommodate uncertainties about the strandedness of de novo methylation events, I explored two cases: de novo events occurring on the daughter strand only (, ), and de novo events occurring at equal rates on the parent and daughter strands (, ). These values were used to generate the results in Figure 2. To investigate whether or not the change in methylation density observed when starting with was limited to scenarios with high initial densities, I also conducted simulations spanning a range of initial values. For the simulation shown in Figure 3, I started with a methylation density of , and assumed the maintenance rate, , to be 0.975. To meet these conditions under our previous model [31], the sum of parent, , and daughter, , de novo rates must be 0.0028. Here, as before, I considered parameter values that included de novo methylation events on the parent strand (), and parameter values that limited de novo methylation events to the daughter strand ().
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