Project description:Tri-methylation of histone H3 lysine 27 is catalyzed by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2). By genome-wide mapping of H3K27me3 sites in HEK293 cells, we are able to identify potential sites for PRC1-mediated repression and use these data to inform gene expression experiments in the presence and absence of pharmacological inhibition or KD/KO of various Polycomb subunits.
Project description:The Yin Yang 2 (YY2) gene encodes a zinc finger transcription factor that is not well characterized, yet. By using chromatin immunoprecipitations combined with whole-genome human promoter microarray (ChIP-chip) in HEK293 cells, we identified a multiplicity of YY2-bound annotated promoters as well as additional chromosomal regions. Interestingly, gene ontology analyses linked YY2 to fundamental biological pathways associated to cancer and developmental processes. Identification of YY2 target genes in HEK293 cells in vivo
Project description:Polycomb group (PcG) proteins including EZH2, SUZ12 and so on, which specifically catalyze trimethylation of histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3), and methylated H3K27 can be recognized by other specific binding proteins to compress chromatin structure, leading to the transcriptional repression of the target genes. To completely understand the epigenetic profile and molecular network of PcG in HCC, we performed ChIP-on-chip screens with EZH2, SUZ12 and H3K27me3 antibodies in HepG2 cells. Comparison of ChIP-on-chip results from EZH2, SUZ12 and H3K27me3.
Project description:We report the genomic occupancy of the BAHD1 protein in HEK293 cells over-expressing the BAHD1 gene (HEK293-HPT-BAHD1) We used Native ChIP-seq to identify DNA regions bound to BAHD1 (native ChIP involves use of native chromatin before precipitation of immune complexes, without formaldehyde crosslinking of proteins with nucleic acids)
Project description:Genome wide chromatin maps have shown that spreading repressive histone modifications such as H3K9me3 and H4K20me3 are present on pericentromeric and telomeric repeats and on the inactive X chromosome where H3K27me3 or H3K9me3 alternately modify megabasepair sized domains. However, only a few regions along an autosome of which Homeobox gene clusters are notable examples, have been shown to display spreading of repressive histone modifications. Here we present a ChIP-Chip map of repressive and active histone modifications along mouse Chr.17 in embryonic, fibroblast cells. Our results show that the majority of H3K27me3 modifications form BLOCs rather than focal peaks. H3K27me3 BLOCs modify silent genes of all types and their flanking intergenic regions, indicating a negative correlation between H3K27me3 and transcription. However, non-transcribed gene-poor regions also lacked H3K27me3. We therefore performed a low resolution analysis of whole mouse Chr.17 which revealed that H3K27me3 specifically marks megabasepair sized domains that are enriched for genes, SINEs and active histone modifications. These genic H3K27me3 domains alternate with similar sized gene-poor domains that are deficient in active histone modifications, but enriched for LINE and LTR transposons as well as H3K9me3 and H4K20me3. Thus, a mouse autosome can be seen to contain alternating chromatin bands that predominantly separate genes from one retrotransposons class, which could offer unique chromatin compartments for the specific regulation of genes or the silencing of transposons. mapping of H3K27me3 histone modification in one MEF cell line (MEFF)