Polyurethane foam induces epigenetic modification of mitochondrial DNA during different metamorphic stages of Tenebrio molitor

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Baoyuan GuoMeng Jiao

Abstract

The present work investigated the changes in DNA methylation pattern of Tenebrio molitor mitochondria genome at different development stages, which was fed with polyurethane foam as a sole diet. Polyurethane foam could influence the global methylation levels in mitochondria DNA of Tenebrio molitor. Different leves of 5-methylcytosine appeared at CpG and non-CpG sites of Tenebrio molitor mtDNA while they were fed with polyurethane foam: 10 CpG and 49 non-CpG sites at larval stage, 4 CpG and 31 non-CpG sites at pupa stage, 7 CpG and 56 non-CpG sites at adult stage in general. Moreover, we observed the decreased levels of ATP generation with the mitochondria DNA methylation variation. The results demonstrated that mitochondria DNA gene could be methylated in response to environmental pollutants to modulate stage-specific functions. Moreover, mtDNA methylation of polyurethane-foam-feeding Tenebrio molitor existed discrepancy in the developmental stage. The tentative methylation mechanism of mtDNA might be that polyurethane foam induced oxidative stress and increased the permeability of mitochondrial membranes, which resulted in transmethylase entry into mitochondria.

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