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Location: Eastlake Building, E1-310
Contact phone: (206) 667-2714
Contact fax: (206) 667-2825
Contact e-mail: genomics@fredhutch.org
Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease (CUT&RUN) is an antibody-targeted chromatin profiling method developed by the Henikoff Lab to examine the genome-wide occupancy of transcription factors and chromatin modifying proteins as well as histone modifications and histone variants. This method is broadly applicable across different species and cell types and uses micrococcal nuclease tethered to a protein A/G fusion to bind an antibody of choice and cut the immediately adjacent DNA, thereby releasing the antibody targeted DNA for subsequent deep sequencing analysis. The procedure is carried out in situ, avoiding crosslinking and solubilization issues, and produces extremely low backgrounds as compared to ChIP, make profiling possible using low cell numbers and reduced sequencing depth without loss of quality.
CUT&RUN has been automated (AutoCUT&RUN) using a Beckman Biomek FX liquid-handling robot to facilitate high-throughput chromatin profiling in 96 well format. This platform allows sample-to-Illumina library processing of 96 samples in two days. In addition, AutoCUT&RUN has been validated for profiling histone modifications and transcription factors in frozen tissue samples taken from tumor xenografts indicating this method can be used to examine the epigenetic landscape of clinically relevant samples.
Please see the Sample Submission Guidelines for more information.
For technical questions or to schedule sample processing, contact Phil Corrin at pcorrin@fredhutch.org or (206) 667-4670.
Sample processing
Users will culture cells / process tissue and bring to homogenous suspension, bind to Concanavalin A coated magnetic beads, permeabilize, and treat with desired antibodies prior to sample submission.
Submitted samples are arrayed into a 96 well PCR plate for robotic processing which includes; binding of pAG-MNase to localized antibodies, cleavage, release, and purification of chromatin targets, and adapter ligation and PCR amplification of libraries.
After completion of library amplification and cleanup, the 96 well sample plate undergoes TapeStation analysis to provide data for process QC, individual sample evaluation, and quantification for pooling. Users will be provided with this report to review prior to pooling.
A panel of 48 unique adapter pairs is used to generate libraries and each pool of 48 barcoded samples is run on 2 lanes of a flow cell for paired-end 25x25 bp NextGen Sequencing (separate charges apply).
Validated antibodies
The use of a protein A-protein G-MNase fusion (pAG-MNase) makes this method compatible with most antibodies, however, in some cases pre-incubation with a rabbit or guinea-pig secondary antibody may still be required for efficient binding of certain mouse primaries etc. In addition, the small amount of E. coli DNA that is carried over from the pAG-MNase preparation can be used for internal calibration of samples without adding additional heterologous spike-in DNA.
Antibody Vendor Dilution
IgG Abcam ab46540 1 to 50
IgG ABIN101961 1 to 50
H3K27me3 Cell Signaling 9733S 1 to 100
H3K27ac Abcam ab4729 1 to 100
H3K27ac Abcam ab45173 1 to 100
H3K27ac Millipore MABE647 1 to 50
H3K4me Abcam ab8895 1 to 100
H3K4me2 Millipore 07-030) 1 to 100
H3K4me3 Active Motif 39159 1 to 100
H3K9me3 Abcam ab8898 1 to 100
H2A.Z Active Motif 39113 1 to 100
H3.3 Abnova H0000302-M01* 1 to 100
PolII S5P Cell Signaling D9N5I 1 to 50
CTCF Millipore 07-729 1 to 100
NPAT Thermo Fisher PA5-66839 1 to 50
cMYC Cell Signaling D38NF 1 to 50
Ring1B Abcam ab101273 1 to 50
CBX7 Abcam ab21873 1 to 50
Suz12 Abcam ab12073 1 to 100
Ezh2 Diagenode C15410039 1 to 100
Sox2 Abcam ab92494 1 to 50
Nanog Abcam ab109250 1 to 50
FoxA1 Abcam ab23738 1 to 50
FoxA2 Millipore 07-633) 1 to 50
GATA4 Santa Cruz sc-25310X 1 to 50
SOX17 R&D Systems AF1924 1 to 50
EOMES Abcam ab23345 1 to 50
*Requires Rabbit anti-mouse secondary
References
Targeted in situ genome-wide profiling with high efficiency for low cell numbers.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29651053
Automated in situ chromatin profiling efficiently resolves cell types and gene regulatory programs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6302505/
Improved CUT&RUN chromatin profiling and analysis tools
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/569129v2.full

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