Project description:The methylome of open chromatins was investigated in colorectal cancer (CRC) to explore cancer-specific methylation and potential biomarkers. Epigenome-wide methylome of open chromatins was studied in colorectal cancer tissues using Infinium DNA MethylationEPIC assay. Differentially methylated regions were identified using the ChAMP Bioconductor. Our stringent analysis led to the discovery of 2187 significant differentially methylated open chromatins in CRCs. More hypomethylated probes were observed and the trend was similar across all chromosomes. Majority of hyper- and hypomethylated probes in open chromatin were in chromosome 1. Our unsupervised hierarchical clustering analysis showed that 40 significant differentially methylated open chromatins were able to segregate CRC from normal colonic tissues. Receiver operating characteristic analyses from the top 40 probes revealed several significant, highly discriminative, specific and sensitive probes such as OPLAH cg26256223, EYA4 cg01328892, and CCNA1 cg11513637, among others. OPLAH cg26256223 hypermethylation is associated with reduced gene expression in the CRC. This study reports many open chromatin loci with novel differential methylation statuses, some of which with the potential as candidate markers for diagnostic purposes.
Project description:The methylome of open chromatins was investigated in colorectal cancer (CRC) to explore cancer-specific methylation and potential biomarkers. Epigenome-wide methylome of open chromatins was studied in colorectal cancer tissues using the Infinium DNA MethylationEPIC assay. Differentially methylated regions were identified using the ChAMP Bioconductor. Our stringent analysis led to the discovery of 2187 significant differentially methylated open chromatins in CRCs. More hypomethylated probes were observed and the trend was similar across all chromosomes. The majority of hyper- and hypomethylated probes in open chromatin were in chromosome 1. Our unsupervised hierarchical clustering analysis showed that 40 significant differentially methylated open chromatins were able to segregate CRC from normal colonic tissues. Receiver operating characteristic analyses from the top 40 probes revealed several significant, highly discriminative, specific and sensitive probes such as OPLAH cg26256223, EYA4 cg01328892, and CCNA1 cg11513637, among others. OPLAH cg26256223 hypermethylation is associated with reduced gene expression in the CRC. This study reports many open chromatin loci with novel differential methylation statuses, some of which with the potential as candidate markers for diagnostic purposes.
Project description:Micrococcal nuclease was used to digest mESC nuclei under a mild digestion condition to release the relatively open chromatin, and under an extensive digestion condition to release the genome chromatin. By comparing the genome distribution of mono-nucleasome under these two conditions, open chromatin regions were detected. One mild digestion and one extensive digestion was applied to the mESC cells, followed by sequencing.
Project description:Colorectal cancer is an epigenetically heterogeneous disease, the extent to which is unclear. In this study we interrogate the methylome of 216 unselected colorectal cancers using Illumina HumanMethylation450 arrays, and correlate these data with transcript profiles and exome sequencing analysis to elucidate the degree of epigenetic dysregulation in colorectal cancers.
Project description:Colorectal cancer is an epigenetically heterogeneous disease, the extent to which is unclear. In this study we interrogate the methylome of 216 unselected colorectal cancers using Illumina HumanMethylation450 arrays, and correlate these data with transcript profiles and exome sequencing analysis to elucidate the degree of epigenetic dysregulation in colorectal cancers.
Project description:Open chromatin provides access to a wide spectrum of DNA binding proteins for DNA metabolism processes such as transcription, repair, recombination, and replication. In this regard, open chromatin profiling has been widely used to identify the location of regulatory regions, including promoters, enhancers, insulators, silencers, replication origins, and recombination hotspots. For a quantitative getic analysis of chromatin regulation, we generated open chromatin maps of 100 yeast samples including the parental strains (BY and RM, and two replicates for each) and their descendants by using the FAIRE-seq technique Open chromatin in two parental strains and 94 segregants of their crossing
Project description:Micrococcal nuclease was used to digest mESC nuclei under a mild digestion condition to release the relatively open chromatin, and under an extensive digestion condition to release the genome chromatin. By comparing the genome distribution of mono-nucleasome under these two conditions, open chromatin regions were detected.
Project description:In order to identify the open chromatin profiles in the U2OS cell, ATAC-seq technology was used to determine the accessible chromatin landscape in U2OS cell.