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Oct, 2011

Direct Identification of Insulator Components by Insertional Chromatin Immunoprecipitation

PLOS ONE
  • Toshitsugu Fujita
  • ,
  • Hodaka Fujii

Volume
6
Number
10
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0026109
Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE

Comprehensive understanding of mechanisms of epigenetic regulation requires identification of molecules bound to genomic regions of interest in vivo. However, non-biased methods to identify molecules bound to specific genomic loci in vivo are limited. Here, we applied insertional chromatin immunoprecipitation (iChIP) to direct identification of components of insulator complexes, which function as boundaries of chromatin domain. We found that the chicken beta-globin HS4 (cHS4) insulator complex contains an RNA helicase protein, p68/DDX5; an RNA species, steroid receptor RNA activator 1; and a nuclear matrix protein, Matrin-3, in vivo. Binding of p68 and Matrin-3 to the cHS4 insulator core sequence was mediated by CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF). Thus, our results showed that it is feasible to directly identify proteins and RNA bound to a specific genomic region in vivo by using iChIP.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026109
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000295984400034&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1296-4256
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0026109
  • ISSN : 1932-6203
  • ORCID - Put Code : 12277100
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000295984400034

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