Project description:PAN-INTACT method can be used to isolate cell type specific nuclei from fibrous mouse organs, which are particularly problematic. It is broadly applicable for profiling the transcriptional and epigenetic landscape of specific cell types. We envision that our method can be used to systematically probe mechanistic details of cell type-specific functions within individual organs of intact mice.
Project description:In this study we used transgenic mouse model to comapre two isolation techniques INTACT and FANS for the isolation of activated neuronal nuclei. Comparison is perfomed on multiple levels like isolation efficiency, membrane integrity, transcriptional and epigenetic state using RNA-seq and ATAC-seq
Project description:We introduce a more sensitive method for purifying specific cell-types from small numbers of fly heads for epigenomic analysis: a method we call ‘mini-INTACT’. We modified the INTACT method in Drosophila [Henry G. L. et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2012, 1–14] to enable purification of genetically tagged rare cell types from Drosophila brain requiring ~50-100 fold less material. We used male fruit flies as a model to examine the effects of social-isolation vs. social-enrichment on the epigenome and transcriptome of dopaminergic neurons defined by expression of the TH-GAL4 driver. Using ChIP-seq on mini-INTACT purified nuclei, RNA-seq and bioinformatic analysis, we identify regulation of the transcriptome and behavior by Activity Related Genes who’s expression is induced by social enrichment.
Project description:Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by deep sequencing (ChIP-seq) is an invaluable tool for mapping chromatin-associated proteins. Processing of samples still remains largely individual and labor-intensive, hindering the assay throughput and comparability across samples. Here we present a novel method for ultra-parallelized high-throughput ChIP-seq for the systematic mapping of histone modifications and transcription factors. The method, called RELACS (Restriction Enzyme-based Labeling of Chromatin in Situ), barcodes chromatin within intact nuclei extracted from different tissutal sources. Barcoded nuclei are pooled and processed within the same ChIP, for maximal comparability and drastical workload reduction. The choice of user-friendly, straightforward, enzymatic steps for chromatin fragmentation and barcoding makes RELACS particularly suitable for implementation in any clinical laboratory settings, for scarce samples, and large-scale studies.
Project description:Cells organize their actions partly through tightly controlled protein-protein interactions – collectively termed the interactome. Here we use crosslinking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) to chart the interactome of intact human nuclei. We overall identified ~8700 crosslinks, of which 2/3 represent links connecting distinct proteins. From this data we constructed an overview of the nuclear interactome. We observed that the histone proteins on the nucleosomes expose well-defined crosslinking hot-spots. For several nucleosome-interacting proteins, such as USF3 and Ran GTPase, the data allowed us to build models of their binding mode to the nucleosome. For HMGN2 the data guided the construction of a refined model of the interaction with the nucleosome, based on complementary NMR, XL-MS and modeling. Excitingly, several isoform-specific interactors seem to exist for distinct histone H1 variants and the analysis of crosslinks carrying post-translational modifications allowed us to extract how specific modifications influence the nucleosome interactome. Overall, our data depository will support future structural and functional analysis of cell nuclei, including the nucleoprotein assemblies they harbor.
Project description:We used in vivo biotin labeling of a nuclear envelope protein in individual cell types followed by affinity isolation of labeled nuclei to measure gene expression and chromatin features of the hair and non-hair cell types of the Arabidopsis root epidermis. Keywords: Chromatin affinity-purification on microarray All experiments were done using two channels per chip. Two types of experiments were performed. Expression profiling was performed by comparing cDNAs synthesized from nuclear RNA isolated from INTACT-prepared Arabidopsis nuclei to total sonicated genomic DNA isolated from Arabidopsis plants. Chromatin profiling was performed using INTACT-prepared Arabidopsis nuclei. DNA isolated by Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) using antibodies to modified histones was compared to histone H3 ChIP DNA from the same sample.