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ArticleLab on a chip2018

A droplet microfluidic platform for efficient enzymatic chromatin digestion enables robust determination of nucleosome positioning.

Yi Xu, Jeong-Heon Lee, Zhaoyu Li, Liguo Wang, Tamas Ordog, Ryan C Bailey

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Article in Lab on a chip, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Yi XuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. ryancb@umich.edu.
Jeong-Heon Lee
Zhaoyu Li
Liguo Wang
Tamas Ordog
Ryan C Bailey
Mayo Clinic · USUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USWinnMed · US

Funding

Interstitial Cells of Cajal in Diabetic GastropathyR01DK058185 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI ORDOG, TAMAS · 2002 to 2020
$5.2M
Training the Next Generation of Researchers in Cancer Nanotechnology at the NCI MR25CA154015 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI BASHIR, RASHID, NARDULLI, ANN · 2010 to 2014
$1.5M
Droplet Microfluidic Platform for Ultralow Input EpigeneticsR21CA191186 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI BAILEY, RYAN C · 2015 to 2017
$647k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA191186NCI NIH HHS R25 CA154015NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK058185
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The first step in chromatin-based epigenetic assays involves the fragmentation of chromatin to facilitate precise genomic localization of the associated DNA. Here, we report the development of a droplet microfluidic device that can rapidly and efficiently digest chromatin into single nucleosomes starting from whole-cell input material offering simplified and automated processing compared to conventional manual preparation. We demonstrate the digestion of chromatin from 2500-125 000 Jurkat cells using micrococcal nuclease for enzymatic processing. We show that the yield of mononucleosomal DNA can be optimized by controlling enzyme concentration and incubation time, with resulting mononucleosome yields exceeding 80%. Bioinformatic analysis of sequenced mononucleosomal DNA (MNase-seq) indicated a high degree of reproducibility and concordance (97-99%) compared with conventionally processed preparations. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of robust and automated nucleosome preparation using a droplet microfluidic platform for nucleosome positioning and downstream epigenomic assays.

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Lab-On-A-Chip DevicesEpigenesis, GeneticEquipment DesignHumansJurkat CellsMicrococcal NucleaseNucleosomesMicrococcal NucleaseNucleosomes

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PMID30046796
PMCPMC6103843
OpenAlexW2883308395

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