Project description:Dendritic cells (DC) are professional antigen presenting cells that comprise different subsets: classical DC type 1 and 2 (cDC1 and cDC2, respectively) and plasmacytoid DC (pDC). In this study cDC1 or pDC were obtained in a two-step in vitro culture system according to Felker et al., J. Immunol. 185, 5326-5335, 2010. Briefly, mouse bone marrow cells were first amplified with a specific cytokine cocktail and then induced to differentiate into DC with Flt3 ligand. cDC1 are CD11c+ CD11b+ XCR1+ and pDC are CD11c+ CD11b- B220+ and thus cDC1 and pDC were obtained by FACS sorting and subjected to Omin-ATAC-seq analysis. As an example of practical application of HINT-ATAC, we performed Omin-ATAC-seq experiments of cDC and pDC cell populations and used HINT-ATAC to detect footprints within ATAC-seq peaks of each of these two cells. Next, we estimated changes in binding activity for all factors with a motif in JASPAR. Cell-specific TF activity is measured by the depth of footprints and number of reads flanking regions. Two known cDC factors, BATF3 and HES1, are detected. In summary, we demonstrated that HINT-ATAC is capable of identifying relevant factors for dendritic cell specification.
Project description:We identified the DNA binding sites of MAB-5 in C. elegans. MAB-5 was C-terminally tagged with GFP and the expression pattern was examined through fluorescent microscopy. The binding sites were determined using chromatin immunoprecipitation with anti-GFP antibody followed by illumina high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq). For data usage terms and conditions, please refer to http://www.genome.gov/27528022 and http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/ENCODE/ENCODEDataReleasePolicyFinal2008.pdf
Project description:We identified the DNA binding sites of DPY-27 in C. elegans. DPY-27 was C-terminally tagged with GFP and the expression pattern was examined through fluorescent microscopy. The binding sites were determined using chromatin immunoprecipitation with anti-GFP antibody followed by illumina high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq). For data usage terms and conditions, please refer to http://www.genome.gov/27528022 and http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/ENCODE/ENCODEDataReleasePolicyFinal2008.pdf
Project description:Mammalian genome encodes approximately 1,700 transcription factors (TFs), 1,300 out of which have sequence specific binding motifs. Transcription in mammalian cells is regulated by the recruitment of TFs to specific cis-regulatory elements. In spite of consistent efforts on the function of individual TF, the question still remains how TFs bind to DNA and form enhancer. Here, we try to solve this problem by investigating the relationship between TF binding pattern and chromatin accessibility (ATAC-Seq). We first systematically acquired ATAC-Seq dataset as well as matched RNA-Seq dataset from different mouse primary tissues. A comprehensive TF binding map was built for each tissue/cell type by genomic approaches.