Project description:We performed a CRISPR-based functional genetic screen targeting CTCF binding elements (CBEs) located in the vicinity of ERα-bound enhancers. The screen identified four functional CBEs whose targeting resulted in a marked negative effect on the proliferation of MCF-7 cells (ERα-positive cells) but no significant effect on MDA-MB-231 (ERα-negative cells) cells. Here, we carried out GRO-seq analysis on MCF-7 cells induced with an sgRNA vector targeting one of the hits detected by the screen: sgRNA_1118, as well as non-targeting sgRNA and sg1830 as control.
Project description:We performed a CRISPR-based functional genetic screen targeting CTCF binding elements (CBEs) located in the vicinity of ERα-bound enhancers. The screen identified four functional CBEs whose targeting resulted in a marked negative effect on the proliferation of MCF-7 cells (ERα-positive cells) but no significant effect on MDA-MB-231 (ERα-negative cells) cells. We then carried out RNA-seq analysis on MCF-7 cells induced with sgRNA vectors targeting these four CBEs: sgRNA_1118, sgRNA_1659, sgRNA_680 and sgRNA_810, as well as non-targeting sgRNA as control.
Project description:To identify loci with transcriptionally engaged RNA polymerase, we performed GRO-seq analysis of colorectal carcinoma cell line HCT116, breast carcinoma line MCF7, and osteosarcoma line SJSA treated with MDM2 inhibitor Nutlin.
Project description:We report the high-throughput profiling of histone modifications, CTCF and HP1a binding sites in MCF7 breast cancer cells. ChIP-chip experiments were performed using the Agilent Human Genome CGH Microarray 1x1M. Regulatory markers H3K4Me1, H3K4Me3, H3K4Ac, H3K9Ac, CTCF are known to be positively correlated with gene expression, and H3K9Me2, H3K27Me3 and HP1a are negative markers. Together with MCF7 methylation data, we showed hypomethylated promoters are significantly enriched with positive regulatory elements, and lacks repressive markers.
Project description:In our work we used high-throughput sequencing methods to get insight in the role of CTCF in ER-mediated gene regulation in luminal breast cancer cells. After assessing genome-wide binding of CTCF, ER, FOXA1 and Lamin B in MCF7 cells treated with estrogen for different time points, we could correlate the interaction to the chromatin with estrogen-induced de novo transcription (from GRO-seq data) and loop formation (from ChIA-PET, Fullwood et al., 2009). We observed that CTCF binding correlates with ER-mediated transcription and its depletion can affect ER-ER loop formation and subsequently gene expression.