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MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 764-780Publisher
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DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M112.024307
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- Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation
- Association of International Cancer Research
- Italian Association for Cancer Research
- Cariplo Foundation
- Italian Ministry of Health
- FIRC
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Chromatin is a highly dynamic, well-structured nucleoprotein complex of DNA and proteins that controls virtually all DNA transactions. Chromatin dynamicity is regulated at specific loci by the presence of various associated proteins, histones, post-translational modifications, histone variants, and DNA methylation. Until now the characterization of the proteomic component of chromatin domains has been held back by the challenge of enriching distinguishable, homogeneous regions for subsequent mass spectrometry analysis. Here we describe a modified protocol for chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with quantitative proteomics based on stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture to identify known and novel histone modifications, variants, and complexes that specifically associate with silent and active chromatin domains. Our chromatin proteomics strategy revealed unique functional interactions among various chromatin modifiers, suggesting new regulatory pathways, such as a heterochromatin-specific modulation of DNA damage response involving H2A.X and WICH, both enriched in silent domains. Chromatin proteomics expands the arsenal of tools for deciphering how all the distinct protein components act together to enforce a given region-specific chromatin status. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 12: 10.1074/mcp.M112.024307, 764-780, 2013.
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