GSE123602 Low-input chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis endosperm using CUT & RUN

Contributors : Mary Gehring ; Xiao-yu ZhengSeries Type : Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Arabidopsis thalianaEndosperm is an essential seed tissue with a unique epigenetic landscape. During endosperm development, differential epigenetic regulation of the maternal and paternal genomes plays important roles in regulating gene expression, especially at imprinted genes. Profiling the endosperm epigenetic landscape on a genome-wide scale is challenging due to its small size, mode of development, and close association with maternal tissue. Here, we applied a low input chromatin profiling method, CUT&RUN (cleavage under targets and release using nuclease), to profile parental-specific chromatin modifications using low numbers of Arabidopsis endosperm nuclei. We demonstrate that CUT&RUN generates genome-wide H3K27me3 landscapes with high sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility using around 20,000 endosperm nuclei purified by flow cytometry and fluorescence-activated cell sorting. H3K27me3 peaks identified by CUT&RUN and previous ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation) approaches were largely overlapping, with some distinctions in heterochromatin. The versatility and simplicity of CUT&RUN makes it a viable alternative to ChIP, which requires greater amounts of starting material, and will enable the study of tissue or even cell-type specific epigenomes in Arabidopsis and other plant species.
Source: GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing Arabidopsis thaliana Source Type: research