Project description:To study the epigenetic regulation of intestinal epithelium we focus on the role of chromatin modulators. Lysine-specific histone demethylase 1a (KDM1A, LSD1) is one of the enzymes that can erase the H3K4me1/2 mark. To assess the role of LSD1 in intestinal epithelium we studied wild type (WT) (Villin-Cre -; Lsd1f/f) and intestinal-epithelial-specific knock-out (KO) (Villin-Cre+; Lsd1f/f) mice. We found that KO mice completely lack Paneth cells, and have altered stem cell characteristics compared to WT littermates. To assess genome-wide ATAC levels in WT and KO small intestines, we isolated intestinal epithelium tissue from wild type mice and LSD1 KO mice. This tissue was digested to single cells and performed ATAC seq as described in the protocols.
Project description:We used ATAC-seq (Buenrostro et al, 2013) to identify regions of open chromatin in FACS sorted mouse endothelial cells from E12.5 hearts. Please note that the animals were injected at different dates, which resulted in different effects of the knockout, as indicated in the batch attribute of the samples. This data set is part of the study \Endocardial Tbx20 is essential for mesenchymal and myocardial cell movements required for cardiac septation\. Peaks were called using HOMER (-gsize 1.87e9 -region -tbp 1). Replicate 1: -fdr 1e-8, replicate 2: default parameters. Buenrostro JD, Giresi PG, Zaba LC, Chang HY, Greenleaf WJ. 2013. Transposition of native chromatin for fast and sensitive epigenomic profiling of open chromatin, DNA-binding proteins and nucleosome position. Nat Methods 10: 12138.
Project description:Using CRISPR-Cas9 technology, we stably disrupted an insulator element in two different TNBC cell lines. The aim of this experiment was to characterize the chromatin accessibility profile using ATAC-seq. For this experiment, we selected three biological replicates of MDA-MB-231 (WT and IE8dis) and MDA-MB-436 (WT and IE8dis).
Project description:Barrett's esophagus is the assumed precusor to oesophageal adenocarcinoma. We profiled the open chromatin of human Barrett's biopsies to gain insight into its molecular basis.
Project description:To determine the ability of HNF4A and GATA6 to drive open chromatin formation, either HNF4A or GATA6 were overexpressed in normal oesophageal Het1A cells and ATAC-seq was performed.