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A parallelized, automated platform enabling individual or sequential ChIP of histone marks and transcription factors

Dainese, Riccardo  
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Gardeux, Vincent  
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Llimos, Gerard  
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June 16, 2020
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS)

Despite its popularity, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) remains a tedious (>2 d), manually intensive, low-sensitivity and low-throughput approach. Here, we combine principles of microengineering, surface chemistry, and molecular biology to address the major limitations of standard ChIP-seq. The resulting technology, FloChIP, automates and miniaturizes ChIP in a beadless fashion while facilitating the downstream library preparation process through on-chip chromatin tagmentation. FloChIP is fast (<2 h), has a wide dynamic range (from 106 to 500 cells), is scalable and parallelized, and supports antibody- or sample-multiplexed ChIP on both histone marks and transcription factors. In addition, FloChIP's interconnected design allows for straightforward chromatin reimmunoprecipitation, which allows this technology to also act as a microfluidic sequential ChIP-seq system. Finally, we ran FloChIP for the transcription factor MEF2A in 32 distinct human lymphoblastoid cell lines, providing insights into the main factors driving collaborative DNA binding of MEF2A and into its role in B cell-specific gene regulation. Together, our results validate FloChIP as a flexible and reproducible automated solution for individual or sequential ChIP-seq.

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research article
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1913261117
Web of Science ID

WOS:000546043800008

Author(s)
Dainese, Riccardo  
Gardeux, Vincent  
Llimos, Gerard  
Alpern, Daniel  
Jiang, Jia Yuan
Meireles-Filho, Antonio Carlos Alves  
Deplancke, Bart  
Date Issued

2020-06-16

Publisher

National Academy of Sciences

Published in
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS)
Volume

117

Issue

24

Start page

13828

End page

13838

Subjects

Multidisciplinary Sciences

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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microfluidics

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epigenetics

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chip-seq

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transcription factor

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chromatin-structure

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bivalent chromatin

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genetic-control

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dna-binding

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large-scale

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seq

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single

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