Defining transcription factor nucleosome binding with Pioneer-seq
Tsompana, M.; Wilson, P.; Murugaiyan, V.; Handelmann, C.; Buck, M. J.
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Gene expression requires the targeting of transcription factors (TFs) to regulatory sequences often occluded within nucleosomes. To comprehensively examine TF nucleosome binding, we developed Pioneer-Seq. In Pioneer-seq a library of nucleosomes containing thousands of DNA sequences with TF binding sites in all possible nucleosome orientations is bound to a TF and the protein-nucleosome complex is isolated and quantified. To demonstrate Pioneer-seq we examined nucleosome binding by OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC. Our results demonstrate that KLF4 and SOX2 can bind close to the nucleosome dyad with nucleosome sequence being the major factor regulating TF binding across all studied TFs.
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