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ArticleBiochemical Society transactions2022

Investigating chromatin accessibility during development and differentiation by ATAC-sequencing to guide the identification of cis-regulatory elements.

Emily Louise Smith, Gi Fay Mok, Andrea Münsterberg

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Article in Biochemical Society transactions, 2022. 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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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Emily Louise SmithSchool of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, U.K.
Gi Fay MokSchool of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, U.K.
Andrea MünsterbergSchool of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, U.K.
University of East Anglia · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/N007034/1British Heart Foundation PG/19/76/34696
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mapping accessible chromatin across time scales can give insights into its dynamic nature, for example during cellular differentiation and tissue or organism development. Analysis of such data can be utilised to identify functional cis-regulatory elements (CRE) and transcription factor binding sites and, when combined with transcriptomics, can reveal gene regulatory networks (GRNs) of expressed genes. Chromatin accessibility mapping is a powerful approach and can be performed using ATAC-sequencing (ATAC-seq), whereby Tn5 transposase inserts sequencing adaptors into genomic DNA to identify differentially accessible regions of chromatin in different cell populations. It requires low sample input and can be performed and analysed relatively quickly compared with other methods. The data generated from ATAC-seq, along with other genomic approaches, can help uncover chromatin packaging and potential cis-regulatory elements that may be responsible for gene expression. Here, we describe the ATAC-seq approach and give examples from mainly vertebrate embryonic development, where such datasets have identified the highly dynamic nature of chromatin, with differing landscapes between cellular precursors for different lineages.

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ChromatinHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingCell DifferentiationGene Regulatory NetworksSequence Analysis, DNAChromatinATAC-seqchromatin accessibilitycis-regulatory elementsenhancervertebrate development

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PMID35604124
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