Identification of Enhancer-Promoter Contacts in Embryoid Bodies by Quantitative Chromosome Conformation Capture (4C)Tian V. Tian 1,2,3, Enrique Vidal 1,2, Thomas Graf 1,2, Grégoire Stik 1,2
1Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 3Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology
We report the application of quantitative chromosome conformation capture followed by high-throughput sequencing in embryoid bodies generated from embryonic stem cells. This technique allows to identify and quantitate the contacts between putative enhancers and promoter regions of a given gene during embryonic stem cell differentiation.