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BIND&MODIFY: a long-range method for single-molecule mapping of chromatin modifications in eukaryotes

  • Genome Biol. 2023 Mar 29;24(1):61. doi: 10.1186/s13059-023-02896-y.
Zhe Weng # 1 Fengying Ruan # 1 Weitian Chen # 1 2 Zhichao Chen 1 2 Yeming Xie 1 Meng Luo 1 Zhe Xie 1 3 Chen Zhang 1 Juan Wang 1 Yuxin Sun 1 Yitong Fang 1 Mei Guo 1 Chen Tan 1 Wenfang Chen 1 Yiqin Tong 1 Yaning Li 1 Hongqi Wang 1 Chong Tang 4
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China.
  • 2 College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
  • 3 Department of Biology, Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Copenhagen 13, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 4 BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China. leochong718@gmail.com.
  • # Contributed equally.
Abstract

Epigenetic modifications of histones are associated with development and pathogenesis of disease. Existing approaches cannot provide insights into long-range interactions and represent the average chromatin state. Here we describe BIND&MODIFY, a method using long-read Sequencing for profiling histone modifications and transcription factors on individual DNA fibers. We use recombinant fused protein A-M.EcoGII to tether methyltransferase M.EcoGII to protein binding sites to label neighboring regions by methylation. Aggregated BIND&MODIFY signal matches bulk ChIP-seq and CUT&TAG. BIND&MODIFY can simultaneously measure histone modification status, transcription factor binding, and CpG 5mC methylation at single-molecule resolution and also quantifies correlation between local and distal elements.

Keywords

CTCF; CpG methylation; Epigenetics; H3K27me3; Histone modification; Methyltransferase; m6A.

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