Single-cell chromatin immunocleavage sequencing (scChIC-seq) to profile histone modification.

Ku, Wai Lim; Nakamura, Kosuke; Gao, Weiwu; Cui, Kairong; Hu, Gangqing; Tang, Qingsong; Ni, Bing; Zhao, Keji · Nat Methods · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Our method for analyzing histone modifications, scChIC-seq (single-cell chromatin immunocleavage sequencing), involves targeting of the micrococcal nuclease (MNase) to a histone mark of choice by tethering to a specific antibody. Cleaved target sites are then selectively PCR amplified. We show that scChIC-seq reliably detects H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 target sites in single human white blood cells. The resulting data are used for clustering of blood cell types.

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