Project description:By using a novel chromatin conformation capture (3C) method (Micro Capture-C (MCC)), which allows physical contacts to be determined at base-pair resolution. We demonstrate interactions between different classes of regulatory elements in unprecedented detail. T119_S12-S17 and E14_S10-S14 contains data of viewpoint from enhancers that are active in both ES and erythroid cells. NIPBL, CTCF and Rad21 CHIP libraries were prepared and analyzed as previously reported in Hanssen LLP. et al., 2017.
Project description:By using a novel chromatin conformation capture (3C) method (Micro Capture-C (MCC)), which allows physical contacts to be determined at base-pair resolution. We demonstrate interactions between different classes of regulatory elements in unprecedented detail.
Project description:We have combined standard micrococcal (MNase) digestion of nuclei with a modified protocol for construction paired-end DNA sequencing libraries to map both nucleosomes and subnucleosome-sized particles at single base-pair resolution throughout the budding yeast genome. We found that partially unwrapped nucleosomes and subnucleosome-sized particles can occupy the same position within a cell population, suggesting dynamic behavior. By varying the time of MNase digestion, we have been able to observe changes that reflect differential sensitivity of particles, including eviction of nucleosomes. Our protocol and mapping method provide a general strategy for characterizing full epigenomes. We used micrococcal nuclease mapping, chromatin immunoprecipitation and paired-end sequencing to determine the structure of yeast centromeres at single base-pair resolution.
Project description:The immunodeficiency, centromere instability and facial anomalies (ICF) syndrome is associated with mutation of the DNA methyl-transferase DNMT3B, resulting in a reduction of enzyme activity. Aberrant expression of immune system genes and hypomethylation of pericentromeric regions accompanied by chromosomal instability were determined as alterations driving the disease phenotype. However, so far only technologies capable of analyzing single loci were applied to determine epigenetic alterations in ICF patients. In the current study, we performed whole-genome bisulphite sequencing to assess alteration in DNA methylation at base-pair resolution. Whole-genome bisulphite sequencing was performed to assess alteration in DNA methylation of one ICF patient and one healthy control sample at base-pair resolution.
Project description:We have combined standard micrococcal (MNase) digestion of nuclei with a modified protocol for construction paired-end DNA sequencing libraries to map both nucleosomes and subnucleosome-sized particles at single base-pair resolution throughout the budding yeast genome. We found that partially unwrapped nucleosomes and subnucleosome-sized particles can occupy the same position within a cell population, suggesting dynamic behavior. By varying the time of MNase digestion, we have been able to observe changes that reflect differential sensitivity of particles, including eviction of nucleosomes. Our protocol and mapping method provide a general strategy for characterizing full epigenomes.
Project description:The immunodeficiency, centromere instability and facial anomalies (ICF) syndrome is associated with mutation of the DNA methyl-transferase DNMT3B, resulting in a reduction of enzyme activity. Aberrant expression of immune system genes and hypomethylation of pericentromeric regions accompanied by chromosomal instability were determined as alterations driving the disease phenotype. However, so far only technologies capable of analyzing single loci were applied to determine epigenetic alterations in ICF patients. In the current study, we performed whole-genome bisulphite sequencing to assess alteration in DNA methylation at base-pair resolution.
Project description:Here we used Illumina NGS for high-throughput profiling of the DNA methylome in two human colon cancer derived cell lines, two human normal bone marrow CD34+ controls and in five human Acutre Myeloid Leukeima patient samples. These data can be used to determine the CpG cytosine methylation pattern at base pair resolution in each sample and to determine differentially methylated cytosines and regions between samples
Project description:Here we used Illumina NGS for high-throughput profiling of the DNA methylome in two human colon cancer derived cell lines, two human normal bone marrow CD34+ controls and in five human Acutre Myeloid Leukeima patient samples. These data can be used to determine the CpG cytosine methylation pattern at base pair resolution in each sample and to determine differentially methylated cytosines and regions between samples Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (RRBS) and Extended Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (ERRBS) on genomic DNA. We used colon cancer cell lines (two) to establish reproducbility and range of assay sensitivity. We used Acute Myeloid Leukemia patient samples and CD34+ bone marrow cells as controls to determine the methylome pattern in the patient samples
Project description:The parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis is an emerging genetic model for functional analysis of DNA methylation. Here, we characterize genome-wide methylation at a base-pair resolution, and compare these results to gene expression across five developmental stages and to methylation patterns reported in other insects. An accurate assessment of DNA methylation across the genome is accomplished using bisulfite sequencing of adult females from a highly inbred line. One-third of genes show extensive methylation over the gene body, yet methylated DNA is not found in non-coding regions and rarely in transposons. Methylated genes occur in small clusters across the genome. Methylation demarcates exon-intron boundaries, with elevated levels over exons, primarily in the 5’ regions of genes. It is also elevated near the sites of translational initiation and termination, with reduced levels in 5’ and 3’ UTRs. Methylated genes have higher median expression levels and lower expression variation across development stages than non-methylated genes. There is no difference in frequency of differential splicing between methylated and non-methylated genes, and as yet no established role for methylation in regulating alternative splicing in Nasonia. Phylogenetic comparisons indicate that many genes maintain methylation status across long evolutionary time scales. Nasonia methylated genes are more likely to be conserved in insects, but even those that are not conserved show broader expression across development than comparable non-methylated genes. Finally, examination of duplicated genes shows that those paralogs that have lost methylation in the Nasonia lineage following gene duplication evolve more rapidly, show decreased median expression levels, and increased specialization in expression across development. Methylation of Nasonia genes signals constitutive transcription across developmental stages, whereas non-methylated genes show more dynamic developmental expression patterns. We speculate that loss of methylation may result in increased developmental specialization in evolution and acquisition of methylation may lead to broader constitutive expression. Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of 24-hour adult female Nasonia vitripennis whole body samples using Iilumina GAIIx and HiSeq2000.