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Hereditas(Beijing) ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (10): 958-966.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.22-253

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The protocol of CUT&Tag for metabolic tissue cells

Ziyin Zhang1,2(), Yanping Zhou1,2, Zhuo-Xian Meng1,2()   

  1. 1. Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Disease Proteomics of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • Received:2022-08-01 Revised:2022-09-20 Online:2022-10-20 Published:2022-10-03
  • Contact: Meng Zhuo-Xian E-mail:ziyinzhang@zju.edu.cn;zxmeng@zju.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the Training Program of the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91857110);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFA0800403);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC1305303);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81670740);the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of China(81722012);the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(LZ21H070001);the Innovative Institute of Basic Medical Sciences ofZhejiang University, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, the Construction Fund of Medical Key Disciplinesof Hangzhou(OO20200055);K.C. Wong Education Foundation

Abstract:

Cleavage under target and tagment (CUT&Tag) is a technology that utilizes the fusion protein of Tn5 transposase and protein A/G which can guide Tn5 enzyme to the antibody bound to target protein and cleave the chromatin regions adjacent to target protein. Chromatin libraries are then tagged and sequenced by the high-throughput sequencing to obtain chromatin information at specific sites or protein binding locations. CUT&Tag technology plays an important role in the research of DNA and protein interactions. It can be used to understand the modifications of histone and the bindings of transcription factors. Compared with the traditional chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing (ChIP-seq) technology, the CUT&Tag has the strengths of high signal-to-noise ratio, good repeatability, short experimental period, and low cell input. It shows great advantages in early embryonic development, stem cells, cancer, epigenetics and other research fields. In this article, we described the protocol of CUT&Tag for metabolic tissue cells (mouse primary islet cells), to provide an epigenetic method for studying metabolic cells.

Key words: CUT&Tag, histone modification, protocol, metabolic cell