Chromatin Immunoprecipitation: Difference between revisions
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===Immunoprecipitation=== | ===Immunoprecipitation=== | ||
''Perform all steps in an ice bucket or in the cold room at 4°C.'' | |||
1. Couple the primary antibody for each transcription factor or chromatin protein to magnetic beads: | |||
<nowiki> a. Add 200 μl re-suspended magnetic bead slurry to a 1.5 ml microfuge tube on ice containing 1 ml cold | |||
PBS/BSA. Vortex briefly to mix well. | |||
b. Place the microfuge tubes on the magnet rack and remove supernatants. | |||
c. Resuspend the beads in 1 ml cold PBS/BSA. | |||
d. Repeat Steps b and c 3 times. | |||
e. Add 200 μl PBS/BSA to beads. | |||
f. Add 5 μg primary antibody. Do not vortex beads after adding the antibody. | |||
g. Gently mix on a rotator platform for at least 2 hours at 4°C. | |||
h. Wash beads 3 times (steps b-c), resuspending the beads by inverting the tubes during each wash. | |||
i. Resuspend in 100 μl PBS/BSA, and proceed to Step 2.</nowiki> | |||
2. Incubate bead-antibody complex with fragmented, cross-linked chromatin | |||
<nowiki> a. Add 100 μl of antibody-coupled beads (from step 1.i above) to each 300 μl chromatin preparation (from | |||
Sonication protocol) and incubate on a rotator for one hour at room temperature, followed by one hour at | |||
4°C. | |||
b. Collect beads containing immuno-bound chromatin by placing the microfuge tube on a magnet rack. | |||
c. Remove and discard supernatant. | |||
d. Wash beads 5 times with LiCl Wash Buffer, mixing 3 minutes for each wash on a rotator. | |||
e. Add 1 ml TE Buffer to beads. Mix 1 minute on rotator and then place tubes on magnet rack to collect beads and discard supernatant. | |||
f. Resuspend the bead pellet in 200 μl IP Elution Buffer (at room temperature). Vortex to mix.</nowiki> | |||
3. Reverse cross-linking and recover | |||
===Analysis of Immunoprecipitated DNA=== | ===Analysis of Immunoprecipitated DNA=== | ||