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ArticlePlant methods2020

A native chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) protocol for studying histone modifications in strawberry fruits.

Xiaorong Huang, Qinwei Pan, Ying Lin, Tingting Gu, Yi Li

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Article in Plant methods, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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Xiaorong Huang *1State Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement and College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 People's Republic of China.
Qinwei Pan *1State Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement and College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 People's Republic of China.
Ying Lin1State Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement and College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 People's Republic of China.
Tingting Gu1State Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement and College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-0911-5790
Yi Li3Department of Plant Science and Landscape, Architecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 USA.
Nanjing Agricultural University · CNUniversity of Connecticut · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCovalent modifications of histones and histone variants have great influence on chromatin structure, which is involved in the transcriptional regulation of gene expression. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a powerful tool for studying in vivo DNA-histone interactions. Strawberry is a model for Rosaceae and non-climacteric fruits, in which histone modifications have been implicated to affect fruit development and ripening. However, a validated ChIP method has not been reported in strawberry, probably due to its high levels of polysaccharides which affect the quality of prepared chromatin and the efficiency of immunoprecipitation.

resultsWe describe a native chromatin immunoprecipitation (N-ChIP) protocol suitable for strawberry by optimizing the parameters for nuclei isolation, chromatin extraction, DNA fragmentation and validation analysis using quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). The qRT-PCR results show that both the active mark H3K36me3 and the silent mark H3K9me2 are efficiently immunoprecipitated for the enriched regions. Compared to X-ChIP (cross-linked chromatin followed by immunoprecipitation), our optimized N-ChIP procedure has a higher signal-to-noise ratio and a lower background for both the active and the silent histone modifications. Furthermore, high-throughput sequencing following N-ChIP demonstrates that nearly 90% of the enriched H3K9/K14ac peaks are overlapped between biological replicates, indicating its remarkable consistency and reproducibility.

conclusionsAn N-ChIP method suitable for the fleshy fruit tissues of woodland strawberry

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Chromatin immunoprecipitationFruit tissuesHistone modificationNative ChIPStrawberry

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