Project description:CUT&RUN for IgG, H3K4me3 and HA-SPDEF in human PDA HPAF-II cells and CUT&RUN HA-Spdef in murine KPC 2D FC1245 cells We performed CUT&RUN assay in human and murine PDA cells to profile the direct binding of SPDEF to target genes.
Project description:We introduce CUT&RUNTools (https://bitbucket.org/qzhudfci/cutruntools/) as a flexible, general pipeline for facilitating the identification of chromatin-associated protein binding and genomic footprinting analysis from antibody-targeted CUT&RUN primary cleavage data. CUT&RUNTools extracts endonuclease cut site information from sequences of short read fragments and produces single-locus binding estimates, aggregate motif footprints, and informative visualizations to support the high-resolution mapping capability of CUT&RUN. We illustrate the functionality of CUT&RUNTools through analysis of CUT&RUN data acquired for GATA1, a master regulator in erythroid lineage cells. Results were compared initially to published GATA1 ChIP-seq data for cells under the same conditions. We performed de novo analysis of CUT&RUN peaks to retrieve not only GATA1’s primary motif, but also the GATA1-TAL1 composite motif, and co-factor motifs GCCCCGCCTC, CMCDCCC, and RTGASTCA that correspond to SP1, KLF1, and NFE2 co-factors. Cofactor binding was verified by independent TAL1 and KLF1 CUT&RUN, and other ChIP-seq experiments. CUT&RUNTools also generated base-pair resolution motif footprint for sequence-specific binding factors, and located likely direct binding sites by quantifying log-odds of binding scores. Overall, CUT&RUNTools should enable biologists to realize advantages of cleavage data provided by CUT&RUN, and make high-quality footprinting analysis accessible to a broad audience.
Project description:Unlike Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP), which fragments and solubilizes total chromatin, Cut-and-Run is performed in situ, allowing for both high-resolution chromatin mapping and probing of the local chromatin environment. When applied to yeast and human nuclei, Cut-and-Run yielded precise transcription factor profiles while avoiding cross-linking and solubilization issues. Cut-and-Run is simple to perform and at low temperatures is inherently robust, with extremely low backgrounds that make it especially cost-effective for transcription factor and chromatin profiling. When used in conjunction with native ChIP-seq and applied to human CTCF, Cut-and-Run mapped high-resolution 3D directional interactions. We conclude that Cut- and-Run is a suitable complement or replacement for ChIP-seq that can also provide 3D mapping information.
Project description:Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease (CUT&RUN) is an epigenomic profiling strategy in which antibody-targeted controlled cleavage by micrococcal nuclease releases specific protein-DNA complexes into the supernatant for paired-end DNA sequencing. As only the targeted fragments enter into solution, and the vast majority of DNA is left behind, CUT&RUN has exceptionally low background levels. CUT&RUN outperforms the most widely- used Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) protocols in resolution, signal-to-noise, and depth of sequencing required. In contrast to ChIP, CUT&RUN is free of solubility and DNA accessibility artifacts and has been used to profile insoluble chromatin and to detect long-range 3D contacts without cross-linking. Here we present an improved CUT&RUN protocol that does not require isolation of nuclei and provides high-quality data starting with only 100 cells for a histone modification and 1000 cells for a transcription factor. From cells to purified DNA CUT&RUN requires less than a day at the lab bench and requires no special skills.
Project description:Here we describe successful implementation of CUT&RUN for profiling protein-DNA interactions in zebrafish embryos. We apply modified a CUT&RUN method to generate high resolution maps of enrichment for H3K4me3, H3K27me3, H3K9me3, and RNA polymerase II during zebrafish gastrulation. Using this data, we identify a conserved subset of developmental genes that are enriched in both H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 during gastrulation, and we demonstrate the increased effectiveness of CUT&RUN for detecting protein enrichment at repetitive sequences with reduced mappability. Our work demonstrates the power of combining CUT&RUN with the strengths of the zebrafish system to better understand the changing embryonic chromatin landscape and its roles in shaping development.
Project description:MBD2 genome-binding landscape was assessed by CUT&RUN-sequencing in differentiating C2C12 cells. H3K4Me3 CUT&RUN-sequencing was performed as a positive control. Negative control experiment was also performed using a rabbit isotype control monoclonal IgG.
Project description:Targeted epigenomic profiling methods CUT&RUN and CUT&Tag were used to examine TASOR genome binding and TASOR-regulated H3K9me3 deposition on chromatin.
Project description:We performed genome-wide analysis of protein-DNA binding using data obtained from CUT&RUN of BOS patient and control individual fibroblast samples to dissect the effects of truncating ASXL1 mutations. We performed genome-wide analysis of protein-DNA binding using data obtained from CUT&RUN of BOS patient and control individual fibroblast samples.