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Nous remercions Ross Dickins de l’Université de Melbourne pour offrir gracieusement la bibliothèque de shARN utilisée dans l’écran. Ce travail a été financé par la Rett Syndrome Research Trust (dossier d’appel).

Toutes les étapes impliquant des animaux ont été effectuées à l’aide de protocoles approuvés par le Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Institutional Animal Care et le Comité d’utilisation (IACUC). Sans réactifs utilisés ici sont connues pour poser des risques importants pour la santé humaine à l’exception de la 5-azacytidine (5-AZA).
1. génération d’une lignée de cellules de journaliste avec transgène - LUC-HR MeCP2sur le Xi
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Dans notre étude récente6, nous avons généré une lignée de cellules murines avec luciférase et gènes de résistance à l’hygromycine fondues à MeCP2 sur le Xi et il transduites avec une bibliothèque de > 60 000 interférents ciblant > 25 000 gènes. Nous avons trouvé 30 gènes dont un avantage en survie conféré de précipitation sous sélection hygromycine B, suggérant leur rôle dans le contrôle de MeCP2 et silencieux du chromosome x. Ces résultats ont été va...

Une formes les plus courantes de la déficience mentale héréditaire chez les femmes, le syndrome de Rett, est causée par des mutations hétérozygotes MeCP2, un gène du chromosome x codant pour une protéine essentielle pour la fonction neuronale normale1. Une approche potentielle au traitement de ce trouble serait la réactivation de l’allèle sauvage de MeCP2 sur le Xi, comme le rétablissement de MeCP2 expression montre pour inverser les déficits neurologiques dans un modèle murin de cette maladie1, 2 , 4. Toutefois, silençage épigénétique de l’un des deux chromosomes dans les cellules femelles X est solidement maintenu tout au long de la durée de vie d’un organisme3,4, et robuste réactivation d’un gène Xi exigerait un important perturbation dans les multiples voies de régulation épigénétiques.
Pour identifier des facteurs nécessaires pour la maintenance de MeCP2 faire taire, nous avons d’abord développé un modèle de souris transgénique portant une fusion de gène MeCP2- luciférase - hygromycine résistance (MeCP2-LUC-HR) sur l’un des deux chromosomes X (X MeCP2-LUC-HR/xMeCP2)5. Bien que le MeCP2 exprimée à partir de la construction de la fusion s’est avéré pour être instable et a résulté en une perte de fonction, phénotypiquement imitant MeCP2 suppression chez les mâles hémizygotes (X/y deMeCP2-LUC-HR), l’expression des gènes de journaliste est facilement décelable dans un modèle conforme à l’expression d’endogène MeCP25. Nous avons ensuite généré des clones de fibroblastes immortalisé par la construction sur le chromosome x soit active ou inactive et a confirmé que les anciens ont exprimé type sauvage MeCP2 et pas le concept de journaliste ; l’inverse est vrai pour ce dernier. Lorsqu’il est exposé à un ADN demethylation agent connu pour abroger le silençage génique, 5-azacytidine (5-AZA), cellules avec le reporter sur le Xi (« cellules de journaliste ») a acquis l’activité dans un test de bioluminescence, indiquant que notre construction pourrait être réactivée et donc utilisés pour le dépistage génétique.
Ensuite, nous avons développé un dépistage génétique de haut débit pour les régulateurs de MeCP2 mise sous silence. La lignée cellulaire de journaliste était tout d’abord infectée par un rétrovirus bibliothèque contenant > 60 000 différents interférents ciblant > 25 000 gènes tout au long de la souris du génome5,6et ensuite soumis à la sélection de l’hygromycine B. Fréquence en épingle à cheveux a été comparée au préalable et post-sélection échantillons de prochaine génération séquençage, comme reporter réactivation avantageait la croissance sous l’hygromycine B sélection et a donné lieu à l’enrichissement des épingles à cheveux responsables. En utilisant cette approche, nous avons identifié 30 gènes impliqués en MeCP2 silencieux et par la suite ont confirmé les conclusions de la transduction des cellules de journaliste avec des épingles à cheveux et à mesurer leur activité de la luciférase.

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			<td>293FT Cell Line</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>R700-07</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>5-Azacytidine</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>A2385-100MG</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Agencourt AMPure XP</td>
			<td>Beckman-Coulter</td>
			<td>A63881</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Anti-MECP2 antibody</td>
			<td>Millipore</td>
			<td>07-013</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Collagenase</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>C2674-1G</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Corning 96-Well Solid White Polystyrene Microplates</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>07-200-336</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Dulbecco&#39;s Modified Eagle Medium</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>11965-092</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Expression Arrest microRNA-adapted Retroviral Vector (pMSCV)</td>
			<td>Open Biosystems</td>
			<td>EAV4679</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Expression Arrest pSM2 Retroviral shRNAmir library</td>
			<td>Open Biosystems</td>
			<td>RMM3796</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Fetal Bovine Serum</td>
			<td>Fisherbrand</td>
			<td>03-600-511</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>HiSeq 2500</td>
			<td>Illumina</td>
			<td>SY&#8211;401&#8211;2501</td>
			<td>Or equivalent</td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Hygromycin B</td>
			<td>Calbiochem</td>
			<td>400051-1MU</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Lipofectamine 2000</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>11668-019</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Bright-Glo Luciferase Assay System</td>
			<td>Promega</td>
			<td>E2610</td>
			<td>Homogenous Assay for Screening Colonies</td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Luciferase Assay System</td>
			<td>Promega</td>
			<td>E4530</td>
			<td>Non-Homogenous Assay for Testing Individual Hairpins</td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Luminometer TopCount NXT</td>
			<td>Perkin Elmer</td>
			<td>N/A</td>
			<td>Or similar luminometer</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>MiSeq Reagent Kit v2</td>
			<td>Illumina</td>
			<td>MS-102-2001</td>
			<td>Use kit compatible with your equipment</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Opti-MEM</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>31985-070</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Penicillin-Streptomycin</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>15140-122</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>pMD2.G</td>
			<td>Addgene</td>
			<td>#12259</td>
			<td>VSV-G envelope vector</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Polybrene</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>TR-1003-G</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Polyethylenimine</td>
			<td>Polysciences</td>
			<td>23966-1</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>psPAX2</td>
			<td>Addgene</td>
			<td>#12260</td>
			<td>Packaging vector</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Puromycin</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>A11138-02</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Trypsin-EDTA (0.05%), phenol red</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>25300-054</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
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pooled shrna screen for reactivation of mecp2 on the inactive x chromosome

Avancer les écrans génétiques à l’aide de gènes rapporteurs insérées dans l’hétérochromatine ont été largement utilisés pour étudier les mécanismes de contrôle épigénétique dans organismes modèles. Technologies, y compris les ARN en épingle à cheveux courts (interférents) et cluster régulièrement dois‑je répétitions courtes palindromiques (CRISPR) ont permis à ces écrans dans des cellules de mammifères diploïdes. Nous décrivons ici un écran de shARN à grande échelle pour les régulateurs de l’inactivation de chromosome x (XCI), avec une lignée de cellules murines luciférase de firefly et de gènes de résistance à l’hygromycine frappa dans à l’extrémité C-terminale de la protéine liant le CpG de méthyle 2 gène (MeCP2) sur le chromosome de x inactif (Xi). Réactivation de la construction dans la lignée de cellules de journaliste conféré un avantage en survie sous sélection hygromycine B, nous permettant de cribler une banque de shARN grand et identifier les piques qui a réactivé le reporter en mesurant leur enrichissement postérieures à la sélection à l’aide séquençage de prochaine génération. Les épingles à cheveux enrichis ont été ensuite individuellement validés en testant leur capacité à activer le Rapporteur de la luciférase sur Xi.

Les fibroblastes de tendon de souris ont été récoltés d’un précédemment décrits XMeCP2-LUC-HR/x souris femelleMeCP2 , immortalisée par transduction rétrovirale des oncogènes E6 et E7 du VPH-16 virus7, clonés à l’aide de dilution limite et testés pour activité de la luciférase et expression de la protéine MeCP2 de type sauvage (Figure 1 a et 1 b). Activité de la luciférase a été robuste si le journaliste effectuait Xa et indétect...

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Pooled shRNA Screen for Reactivation of MeCP2 on the Inactive X Chromosome

ShARN regroupée écran pour la réactivation de MeCP2 sur le Chromosome X inactif

Nous rapportons une petite épingle à cheveux RNA (shARN) et le protocole axée sur le séquençage de prochaine génération pour identifier les responsables de la réglementation de l’inactivation du chromosome x dans une lignée de cellules murines avec luciférase firefly et gènes de résistance à l’hygromycine fusionnée à la méthyl CpG binding protein 2 ((en anglais seulement) MeCP2) gène sur le chromosome X inactif.

Forward genetic screens using reporter genes inserted into the heterochromatin have been extensively used to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic control ...

Begin this procedure with preparation of mouse tendon fibroblasts, as described in the text protocol. Harvest the cells from a 10-centimeter plate by first aspirating the media. Then add one milliliter of 0.05%trypsin EDTA and incubate for two to five minutes at 37-degrees Celsius.Following incubation, quench the trypsin with nine milliliters of DMEM-10, and collect the resuspended cells in a 15-milliliter conical tube. Dilute the cells with DMEM-10 to a final concentration of one cell per 100 microliters. Then transfer the cells to 96 well plates by pipetting 100 microliters of the suspension into each well.Incubate the cells at 37 degrees Celsius until the wells are confluent, which can take up to two to three weeks. Replace the media with fresh DMEM-10 every three to five days. When confluent, mobilize the cells with 20 microliters 0.05%trypsin EDTA per well, and split them into two duplicate sets of 96 well plates.Assay for luciferase activity in one set of plates. Use a homogenous Firefly luciferase assay that does not require media removal, following the protocol included with the luciferase assay kit. Use the assay results to select clones with no detectable luciferase activity from the remaining set of plates.Expand these clones first to a 24 well plate, and then to a six well plate. Perform the same for a clone with the highest luciferase activity. This will be used as a positive control for validation purposes.Following expansion in the six well plate, harvest an aliquot of each well for a Western blot. Mobilize the cells with 200 microliters of 0.05%trypsin EDTA. Incubate the cells for two to five minutes at 37 degrees Celsius.Quench the cells with two milliliters of DMEM-10, and transfer half of the cells to another six well plate. Wait until the cells attach to the bottom of the plate. Then wash the cells once with PBS before the lysing for the Western blot.Plate several negative clones at 0.2 million cells per well in a six well plate. Treat the cells once with 10 micromolar 5-azacytidine. Then incubate for 72 hours without changing the media before assaying for luciferase activity, as before.Next, choose one negative clone that gained luciferase activity with 5-azacytidine for the screen, and begin expanding it to multiple 10-centimeter plates. Freeze the remaining negative clones in liquid nitrogen as a backup. The positive clone can be maintained in the tissue culture or frozen until further use.In the morning, plate one million inactive X cells onto 10-centimeter tissue culture plates. In the afternoon, infect the plates by replacing the media with fresh DMEM-10 containing a predetermined amount of viral supernatant and five to 10 micrograms per milliliter of polybrene. After 18 to 24 hours, aspirate the media and add 10 milliliters of fresh DMEM-10 to each plate.Culture plates for another 48 hours. In the morning, mobilize the cells using one milliliter of 0.05%trypsin EDTA per plate, and quench the cells with 9 milliliters of DMEM-10 per plate. Run the suspension through a 100-micron mesh filter.Pull the filtered suspensions together, and seed two sets of 10-centimeter plates at one million cells per plate. In the afternoon, replace the media in one set of plates with DMEM-10 containing 15 micrograms per milliliter of Hygromycin B.In the other set, replace the media with fresh DMEM-10 only. After 48 hours, mobilize the cells from Hygromycin B untreated plates using one milliliter of 0.05%trypsin EDTA.Incubate for two to five minutes at 37 degrees Celsius. Next, quench the cells with 9 milliliters of DMEM-10. Pull the individual samples, and proceed immediately with extracting DNA.Continue culturing the Hygromycin B selection set for six more days, replenishing the selection media with fresh DMEM-10 containing Hygromycin B every other day. On day six, replace the selection media with fresh DMEM-10 only. Allow four days for recovery, and then harvest the post-selection sample DNA as before.Proceed to identify hairpins enriched in the post-selection samples, as described in the text protocol. To validate the hits, first seed eight million 293-FT cells per plate on 10-centimeter plates. The following day, replace the media with nine milliliters of antibiotic-free DMEM-10 per plate 30 minutes before transection.Next, add 0.5 milliliters of transfection mix one to each aliquot of transfection mix two, and gently mix by pipetting. Then incubate the mixture at room temperature for 20 minutes. Apply the mixture onto each plate in a drop-wise fashion, and swirl the plate gently to mix.The following day, replace the media with five milliliters of fresh DMEM-10.48 hours after initial transfection, collect the lentiviral supernatant, and run it through a 0.22-micron filter that has been prewet with DMEM-10 to maximize recovery. The next morning, plate 0.1 million inactive X cells per well onto six well plates. In the afternoon, infect the plates by replacing the media with two milliliters of fresh DMEM-10 containing lentiviral supernatant and five to 10 micrograms per milliliter of polybrene.Infect a control well with viral supernatant produced from an empty lentiviral vector. The following day, replace the media with two milliliters of DMEM-10 containing one milligram per milliliter of puromycin. Use selecting for four days.After four days, replace the media with two milliliters of fresh DMEM-10, and allow 48 to 72 hours for recovery. After mobilizing the cells with 150 microliters of 0.05%trypsin EDTA, incubate them for two to five minutes at 37 degrees Celsius. Quench the cells with 1.5 milliliters of DMEM-10 before transferring to conical tubes and centrifuging the cells at room temperature at 500 times G for 10 minutes.Remove the media and resuspended the cells in 100 microliters of lysis buffer provided in the luciferase assay kit. Incubate the suspension at room temperature for five minutes. After five minutes, transfer the suspension to a white 96 well plate.Perform the assay in the darkroom, following the protocol included in the kit. Use active X cells as a positive control and negative X cells infected with an empty lentiviral vector as a negative control. Immortalized mouse tendon fibroblast clones show either positive or negative Firefly luciferase activity, consistent with the placement of the reporter on the active or inactive X chromosome, respectively.MeCP2 expression, as determined by the Western blot, exhibits the reciprocal pattern. Note that Firefly luciferase activity can be induced in negative clones with administration of 5-azacitidine. If present on the active X chromosome, the Hygromycin resistance gene confers a survival advantage under Hygromycin selection, when compared to the cells with the gene on the inactive X chromosome.After watching this video, you should have a good understanding of how to design and perform a screen for regulators of X-chromosome inactivation using reporters selectively inserted on inactive X chromosome. My laboratory has previously carried out reported base screens for chromatin regulators in yeast, and our success with this approach inspired me to design this screen for regulators of X-chromosome inactivation in mammalian cells. Following this procedure, other methods, such as using small, interfering RNAs, CRISPR, small molecules can be performed to help answer additional questions regarding X-chromosome inactivation in mammalian cells.

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A Deep-sequencing-assisted, Spontaneous Suppressor Screen in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

A Deep-sequencing-assisted, Spontaneous Suppressor Screen in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Un écran de suppresseur de Deep-séquençage-assisted, spontanée chez la levure Scissipare Schizosaccharomyces pombe

A genetic screen for mutant alleles that suppress phenotypic defects caused by a mutation is a powerful approach to identify genes that belong to closely ...

A Non-random Mouse Model for Pharmacological Reactivation of Mecp2 on the Inactive X Chromosome

Un modèle de souris non aléatoire pour la réactivation pharmacologique de Mecp2 sur le chromosome X inactif

X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is the random silencing of one X chromosome in females to achieve gene dosage balance between the sexes. As a result, all ...

Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Analyses Using the OpenProt Database to Unveil Novel Proteins Translated from Non-Canonical Open Reading Frames

Basé sur la spectrométrie de masse protéomique des Analyses à l’aide de la base de données OpenProt de dévoiler de nouvelles protéines traduit de cadres ouverts de lecture Non canoniques

Genome annotation is central to today's proteomic research as it draws the outlines of the proteomic landscape. Traditional models of open reading frame ...

Pooled CRISPR-Based Genetic Screens in Mammalian Cells

Écrans génétiques crispR-basés en commun dans les cellules de mammifères

Genome editing using the CRISPR-Cas system has vastly advanced the ability to precisely edit the genomes of various organisms. In the context of mammalian ...

A Screening Method for Identification of Heterochromatin-Promoting Drugs Using Drosophila

A Screening Method for Identification of Heterochromatin-Promoting Drugs Using Drosophila

Une méthode de dépistage pour l’identification des médicaments favorisant l’hétérochromatine à l’aide de Drosophila

Drosophila is an excellent model organism that can be used to screen compounds that might be useful for cancer therapy. The method described here is a ...

Identification of Enhancer-Promoter Contacts in Embryoid Bodies by Quantitative Chromosome Conformation Capture (4C)

Identification of Enhancer-Promoter Contacts in Embryoid Bodies by Quantitative Chromosome Conformation Capture 4C

Identification des contacts Enhancer-Promoteur dans les corps embryonnaires par capture quantitative de conformation des chromosomes (4C)

During mammalian development, cell fates are determined through the establishment of regulatory networks that define the specificity, timing, and spatial ...

A Suppressor Screen for the Characterization of Genetic Links Regulating Chronological Lifespan in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

A Suppressor Screen for the Characterization of Genetic Links Regulating Chronological Lifespan in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Un écran suppresseur pour la caractérisation des liens génétiques régulant la durée de vie chronologique dans Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Aging is the time dependent deterioration of an organism&#8217;s normal biological processes that increases the probability of death. Many genetic factors ...

Application of DNA Fingerprinting using the D1S80 Locus in Lab Classes

Application of DNA Fingerprinting using the D1S80 Locus in Lab Classes

Application de l’empreinte génétique à l’aide du locus D1S80 dans les classes de laboratoire

In biological sciences, DNA fingerprinting has been widely used for paternity testing, forensic applications and phylogenetic studies. Here, we describe a ...