This work was supported by NIH grants CA141009 and GM39067. We thank E. Parnell and R. Yarrington for comments on the written portion.

1. Isolation of Mouse Splenic Na&iuml;ve CD4 T Cells
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 <li>Crush the spleen using frosted ends of two glass slides to release the splenocytes. Transfer the cell suspension in a 15 ml conical tube.</li>
 <li>Collect the cells by centrifugation at 200 x g (~1,200 rpm for a clinical centrifuge wit...

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The protocol above provides a robust method of accurately quantifying DNA enrichment from primary lymphocytes using ChIP. One major reason for robustness in this protocol is the inclusion of biological replicates. The above protocol uses three replicates, the enrichment for which is calculated independently. The outputs are then averaged to provide a degree of enrichment and standard deviations calculated to provide a measure of variability. For each sample, three technical replicates are also performed to elimina...

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 <td>Formaldehyde</td>
 <td>Sigma</td>
 <td>F-8775</td>
 <td>Store at RT</td>
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 <td>Phosphate Buffered Saline</td>
 <td>Hyclone</td>
 <td>SH30256.01</td>
 <td>Store at 4 &deg;C</td>
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 <td>Protease Inhibitor tablets</td>
 <td>Roche</td>
 <td>04693116001</td>
 <td>Store at 4 &deg;C</td>
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 <td>Protein G magnetic beads</td>
 <td>Active Motif</td>
 <td>101945</td>
 <td>Store at 4 &deg;C</td>
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 <td>RNase A (20 mg/ml)</td>
 <td>EMD Millipore</td>
 <td>556746</td>
 <td>Store at -20 &deg;C</td>
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 <td>Proteinase K (20 mg/ml)</td>
 <td>Roche</td>
 <td>03115879001</td>
 <td>Dissolve in 50 mM Tris-HCl, 10 mM CaCl2, pH 8.0</td>
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 <td>Platinum Taq DNA Polymerase</td>
 <td>Invitrogen</td>
 <td>10966-034</td>
 <td>Store at -20 &deg;C</td>
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 <td>SYBR Green I</td>
 <td>Invitrogen</td>
 <td>S7567</td>
 <td>Store at -20 &deg;C</td>
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 <td>1 M Glycine</td>
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 <td>Store at RT</td>
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 <td>Cell lysis buffer (5 mM Pipes, pH 8.0; 85 mM KCl; 0.5% NP-40)</td>
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 <td>Nuclear lysis buffer (50 mM Tris, pH 8.1; 10 mM EDTA; 1% SDS)</td>
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 <td>Store at RT</td>
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 <td>ChIP dilution buffer (0.01% SDS; 1.1% Triton X-100; 1.2 mM EDTA; 16.7 mM Tris pH 8.1; 190 mM NaCl)</td>
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 <td>Store at 4 &deg;C</td>
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 <td>Low salt wash buffer (0.1% SDS; 1% Triton X-100; 2 mM EDTA; 20 mM Tris pH 8.1; 150 mM NaCl)</td>
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 <td>TE buffer (10 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 1 mM EDTA)</td>
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 <td>Elution buffer (1% SDS; 0.1 M NaHCO3)</td>
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 <td>5 M NaCl</td>
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 <td>0.5 M EDTA</td>
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 <td>1 M Tris-HCl, pH 6.5</td>
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 <td>Promega</td>
 <td>Z5342</td>
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 <td>Qiaquick PCR Purification Kit</td>
 <td>Qiagen</td>
 <td>28106</td>
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 <td>Masonix Sonicator 3000</td>
 <td>QSonica</td>
 <td>Model: S3000</td>
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 <td>UV Spectrophotometer</td>
 <td>NanoDrop Technologies</td>
 <td>ND-1000</td>
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 <td>Heating Block</td>
 <td>VWR</td>
 <td>13259-030</td>
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 <td>Rotator</td>
 <td>VWR</td>
 <td>80085-692 </td>
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 <td>Refrigerated bench top centrifuge</td>
 <td>Beckman Coulter</td>
 <td>Model: Allegra X-12R</td>
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 <td>Microcentrifuge</td>
 <td>Eppendorf</td>
 <td>5415 D</td>
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efficient chromatin immunoprecipitation using limiting amounts of biomass

Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a widely-used method for determining the interactions of different proteins with DNA in chromatin of living cells. Examples include sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factors, histones and their different modification states, enzymes such as RNA polymerases and ancillary factors, and DNA repair components. Despite its ubiquity, there is a lack of up-to-date, detailed methodologies for both bench preparation of material and for accurate analysis allowing quantitative metrics of interaction. Due to this lack of information, and also because, like any immunoprecipitation, conditions must be re-optimized for new sets of experimental conditions, the ChIP assay is susceptible to inaccurate or poorly quantitative results.
Our protocol is ultimately derived from seminal work on transcription factor:DNA interactions1,2 , but incorporates a number of improvements to sensitivity and reproducibility for difficult-to-obtain cell types. The protocol has been used successfully3,4 , both using qPCR to quantify DNA enrichment, or using a semi-quantitative variant of the below protocol.
This quantitative analysis of PCR-amplified material is performed computationally, and represents a limiting factor in the assay. Important controls and other considerations include the use of an isotype-matched antibody, as well as evaluation of a control region of genomic DNA, such as an intergenic region predicted not to be bound by the protein under study (or anticipated not to show changes under the experimental conditions). In addition, a standard curve of input material for every ChIP sample is used to derive absolute levels of enrichment in the experimental material. Use of standard curves helps to take into account differences between primer sets, regardless of how carefully they are designed, and also efficiency differences throughout the range of template concentrations for a single primer set. Our protocol is different from others that are available5-8 in that we extensively cover the later, analysis phase.

The Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) protocol presented here controls for differences, if any, in the amount of DNA used in PCR through use of a primer pair that amplifies an unbound region of genome, thus serving as a "loading control". In the example shown in Figure 3, we have used the coding region of the mouse Actb gene as a region unbound to our protein of interest and the transcription factor NFAT binding site on mouse Il2 promoter as target region. Alternatively, a regio...

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We describe a robust method for chromatin immunoprecipitation using primary T cells. The method is founded on standard approaches, but uses a specific set of conditions and reagents that improve efficiency for limited a quantities of cells. Importantly, a detailed description of the data analysis phase is presented.

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14.2K vistas.  University of Utah School of Medicine. Se describe un método robusto para la inmunoprecipitación de la cromatina utilizando células T primarias. El método se basa en los enfoques estándar, pero utiliza un conjunto específico de condiciones y reactivos que mejoran la eficiencia de unas cantidades limitadas de células. Es importante destacar que, se presenta una descripción detallada de la fase de análisis de datos.