Project description:We performed ChIP-seq for H3K4me3, H3K27ac, H3K4me1, H3K27me3, H3K36me3, H3K9me3, and H4K20me3 to characterize chromatin states and investigated SOX2 deposition in asynchronous and mitotic cells.
Project description:SOX2 is part of the core network of transcription factors regulating embryonic stem cell pluripotency. We found that SOX2 has the ability to remain bound to mitotic chromosomes, in contrast to most transcription factors that are excluded from mitotic chromatin as transcription shuts down. We obtained a highly purified population of mitotic mouse embryonic stem cells and compared the genome-wide binding profile of SOX2 to that in asynchronous cells by Chromatin Immunoprecipitation followed by high throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq), and show that SOX2 remains bound to a small set of genes during mitosis.
Project description:We executed CUT&RUN-seq for SWI/SNF components ARID1A, BRD9, SMARCA4, SMARCB1, SMARCE1, as well as ESRRB, SOX2, and EZH2 in asynchronous and mitotic cells and reported that, in asynchronous cells, ARID1A localized primarily at enhancer regions and EZH2 preferentially deposited at bivalent promoters and silent enhancer domains. The remaining factors were enriched at both TSS/promoters and to varying degrees at active enhancers. Unexpectedly, in mitosis, the chromatin regulatory factors almost all tethered at proximal gene regions with very little binding at enhancers. While the SWI/SNF subunits were bound principally at promoters, EZH2, the catalytic subunit of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 was bound at both promoters and silent enhancers in mitotic cells. Moreover, we reported that upon the degradation of SMARCE1 in mitosis, the occupancy of SOX2, ESRRB, and EZH2 on mitotic chromatin was disrupted.
Project description:In the associated paper, SERBP1 is shown to form granules in mitotic cells in a PKCɛ-dependent manner (M-bodies). We performed SERBP1 iCLIP in DLD1 cells that were either asynchronous or enriched for mitotic cells and after treatment with 2 hours of 500nM Blu577 or equivalent DMSO. We found that SERBP1 alters its positioning on rRNA in mitosis in a Blu577-dependent manner, identifying an alternative binding position that coincides with the formation of M-bodies. Mitotic enrichment was performed by single thymidine block, release in to G2 block with RO3306, and release and mitotic shake-off. The fastq files provided are demultiplexed, with adapters and barcodes trimmed and UMI sequences are found in the fastq headers.