Journal
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01500-4
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- High Level Talent Introduction Project of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31770704]
- National Key Research and Development Project of China [2016YFC0501505]
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DNA binding proteins carry out important and diverse functions in the cell, including gene regulation, but identifying these proteins is technically challenging. In the present study, we developed a technique to capture DNA-associated proteins called reverse chromatin immunoprecipitation (R-ChIP). This technology uses a set of specific DNA probes labeled with biotin to isolate chromatin, and the DNA-associated proteins are then identified using mass spectrometry. Using R-ChIP, we identified 439 proteins that potentially bind to the promoter of the Arabidopsis thaliana gene AtCAT3 (AT1G20620). According to functional annotation, we randomly selected 5 transcription factors from these candidates, including bZIP1664, TEM1, bHLH106, BTF3, and HAT1, to verify whether they in fact bind to the AtCAT3 promoter. The binding of these 5 transcription factors was confirmed using chromatin immunoprecipitation quantitative real-time PCR and electrophoretic mobility shift assays. In addition, we improved the R-ChIP method using plants in which the DNA of interest had been transiently introduced, which does not require the T-DNA integration, and showed that this substantially improved the protein capture efficiency. These results together demonstrate that R-ChIP has a wide application to characterize chromatin composition and isolate upstream regulators of a specific gene.
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