Coupled CRISPR Scanning with Targeted Chromatin Accessibility Profiling Enabled by a Double-Stranded DNA Deaminase [Nanopore]
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ABSTRACT: Genome editing enables sequence-function profiling of endogenous cis-regulatory elements, driving understanding of their mechanisms and the development of gene therapies. However, these approaches lack direct, scalable readouts of chromatin accessibility across long single-molecule chromatin fibers. Here we leverage double-stranded DNA cytosine deaminases to profile chromatin accessibility at endogenous loci of interest through targeted PCR and long-read sequencing, a method we term targeted deaminase-accessible chromatin sequencing (TDAC-seq). With high sequence coverage at targeted loci, TDAC-seq integrates with CRISPR perturbations to link genetic edits and their effects on chromatin accessibility on the same single chromatin fiber at single-nucleotide resolution. We employed TDAC-seq to parse CRISPR edits that activate fetal hemoglobin in human CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) during erythroid differentiation as well as in pooled CRISPR and base editing screens tiling an enhancer controlling the globin locus. We further scaled the method to interrogate 947 variants in a GFI1B-linked enhancer associated with myeloproliferative neoplasm risk in a single pooled CRISPR experiment in CD34+ HSPCs. Together, TDAC-seq enables high-resolution sequence-function mapping of single-molecule chromatin fibers by genome editing.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE284033 | GEO | 2025/07/04
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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