ArticleEpigenetics2014
Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis identifies a metabolic memory profile in patient-derived diabetic foot ulcer fibroblasts.
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- Epigenomic profiling reveals an association between persistence of DNA methylation and metabolic memory in the DCCT/EDIC type 1 diabetes cohort.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Trial
- Folinic Acid Improves Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers.Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair SocietyTrial
- Transient elevation in cellular glucose uptake exacerbates pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction.Epigenetics · 2026Article
- Mechanism and implications of advanced glycation end products (AGE) and its receptor RAGE axis as crucial mediators linking inflammation and obesity.Molecular biology reports · 2025Review
- Mechanisms of Impaired Wound Healing in Type 2 Diabetes: The Role of Epigenetic Factors.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2025Review
- Tissue nanotransfection-based endothelial PLCγ2-targeted epigenetic gene editing rescues perfusion and diabetic ischemic wound healing.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025Article
- Liver Fluke-Derived Molecules Accelerate Skin Repair Processes in a Mouse Model of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- An update on chronic complications of diabetes mellitus: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic strategies with a focus on metabolic memory.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Review
- Metabolic memory: mechanisms and diseases.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024Review
- Fibroblasts in Diabetic Foot Ulcers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Targeting DNA methylation and demethylation in diabetic foot ulcers.Journal of advanced research · 2023Review
- Endogenous Biological Drivers in Diabetic Lower Limb Wounds Recurrence: Hypothetical Reflections.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Molecular Pathophysiology of Chronic Wounds: Current State and Future Directions.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2023Review
- Mechanisms of diabetic foot ulceration: A review.Journal of diabetes · 2023Review
- Calreticulin: a multifunctional protein with potential therapeutic applications for chronic wounds.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- Mapping intellectual structure and research hotspots in the field of fibroblast-associated DFUs: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Advanced glycation end products regulate the receptor of AGEs epigenetically.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Epigenetic modifications in metabolic memory: What are the memories, and can we erase them?American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2022Review
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- Epigenetics: key to improve delayed wound healing in type 2 diabetes.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a serious complication of diabetes. Previous exposure to hyperglycemic conditions accelerates a decline in cellular function through metabolic memory despite normalization of glycemic control. Persistent, hyperglycemia-induced epigenetic patterns are considered a central mechanism that activates metabolic memory; however, this has not been investigated in patient-derived fibroblasts from DFUs. We generated a cohort of patient-derived lines from DFU fibroblasts (DFUF), and site- and age-matched diabetic foot fibroblasts (DFF) and non-diabetic foot fibroblasts (NFF) to investigate global and genome-wide DNA methylation patterns using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry and the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450K array. DFFs and DFUFs demonstrated significantly lower global DNA methylation compared to NFFs (p = 0.03). Hierarchical clustering of differentially methylated probes (DMPs, p = 0.05) showed that DFFs and DFUFs cluster together and separately from NFFs. Twenty-five percent of the same probes were identified as DMPs when individually comparing DFF and DFUF to NFF. Functional annotation identified enrichment of DMPs associated with genes critical to wound repair, including angiogenesis (p = 0.07) and extracellular matrix assembly (p = 0.035). Identification of sustained DNA methylation patterns in patient-derived fibroblasts after prolonged passage in normoglycemic conditions demonstrates persistent metabolic memory. These findings suggest that epigenetic-related metabolic memory may also underlie differences in wound healing phenotypes and can potentially identify therapeutic targets.
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