Figure 1

Phenotype specific expression of DNMTs and DNA methylation patterns. (A) Western blot for DNMT1 and DNMT3a and DNMT3b on five proliferative phenotype and five invasive phenotype cell lysates. GAPDH was used as a loading control. Optical density of each band was measured and normalized to GAPDH intensity. (B) Global methylation analysis by ELISA for methyl-cytosine on five proliferative cell cultures and five invasive cell cultures. There was a significant difference (P <0.05, Student’s t-test) in global methylation between the proliferative and invasive phenotype melanoma cells. (C) Heat map representing the 406 gene promoters differentially methylated between the proliferative and invasive phenotype cultures. (D) Heat map representing the top 250 genes differentially expressed between the proliferative and invasive phenotype.