Objective: To investigate the differences in the epigenomic patterns of DNA methylation in peripheral leukocytes between patients with periodontitis and gingivally healthy controls evaluating its functional meaning by functional enrichment analysis. Background:The DNA methylation profiling of peripheral leukocytes as immunerelated tissue potentially relevant as a source of biomarkers between periodontitis patients and gingivally healthy subjects has not been investigated.Methods: A DNA methylation epigenome-wide study of peripheral leukocytes was conducted using the Illumina MethylationEPIC platform in sixteen subjects, eight diagnosed with periodontitis patients and eight age-matched and sex-matched periodontally healthy controls. A trained periodontist performed the clinical evaluation.Global DNA methylation was estimated using methylation-sensitive high-resolution melting in LINE1. Routine cell count cytometry and metabolic laboratory tests were also performed. The analysis of differentially methylated positions (DMPs) and differentially methylated regions (DMRs) was made using R/Bioconductor environment considering leukocyte populations assessed in both routine cell counts and using the FlowSorted.Blood.EPIC package. Finally, a DMP and DMR intersection analysis was performed. Functional enrichment analysis was carried out with the differentially methylated genes found in DMP.Results: DMP analysis identified 81 differentially hypermethylated genes and 21 differentially hypomethylated genes. Importantly, the intersection analysis showed that zinc finger protein 718 (ZNF718) and homeobox A4 (HOXA4) were differentially hypermethylated and zinc finger protein 57 (ZFP57) was differentially hypomethylated in periodontitis. The functional enrichment analysis found clearly immune-related ontologies such as "detection of bacterium" and "antigen processing and presentation." Conclusion:The results of this study propose three new periodontitis-related genes: ZNF718, HOXA4, and ZFP57 but also evidence the suitability and relevance of studying leukocytes' DNA methylome for biological interpretation of systemic immunerelated epigenetic patterns in periodontitis. | 711 HERNÁNDEZ Et al.
La periodontitis es la inflamación de los tejidos periodontales que puede causar destrucción de los tejidos de soporte del diente, ocasionando pérdida ósea y dental. La periodontitis crónica es causada por bacterias periodontopatógenas como Porphyromonas gingivalis, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitams, Tannerella forsythia y Treponema dentícola, que activan el sistema inmune innato y adaptativo. El tratamiento de la enfermedad periodontal involucra estrategias no quirúrgicas como el raspaje y alisado radicular y tratamiento adjunto que incluye la administración de antibióticos sistémicos y locales como metronidazol, amoxicilina, tetraciclinas, además del uso de estatinas; fármacos utilizados principalmente contra la hiperlipidemia como la simvastatina. El uso de estatinas en la enfermedad periodontal, es dado por su efecto antiinflamatorio, además de estimular la formación ósea, la angiogénesis y su actividad antimicrobiana. Para la aplicación de estos fármacos en el tratamiento de la periodontitis crónica se han utilizado diferentes medios de administración, como: geles, fibras, películas, vesículas, y nanopartículas, destacándose el gel como el sistema preferido para liberar y transportar estatinas, el cual reduce los efectos adversos de la administración sistémica y son más efectivos para la cicatrización ósea. En periodoncia, las estatinas han mostrado una disminución en los parámetros clínicos periodontales después de 6 meses de tratamiento. Sin embargo, existen pocas revisiones temáticas que permitan a la comunidad académica reunir la información pertinente al respecto. Por lo anterior, se vio la necesidad de realizar una revisión de la literatura con el fin de describir los sistemas de administración local y sistémica de estatinas en el tratamiento de la periodontitis.
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