CUTANA™ ChIC/CUT&RUN Kit

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Figure 2: SNAP-CUTANA™ K-MetStat Spike-in controls
DNA-barcoded designer nucleosomes (dNucs) representing 16 K-methyl PTMs: mono-, di-, and tri-methylation at H3K4, H3K9, H3K27, H3K36, and H4K20, as well as unmodified control, were spiked into CUT&RUN reactions prior to the addition of antibodies (IgG, H3K4me3). Instances of each spike-in barcode were counted and normalized from raw fastq files using the shell script and analysis excel sheet available on the spike-in product page (EpiCypher 19-1002). Barcodes for IgG (top; normalized to total reads) and H3K4me3 (bottom; normalized to on-target) antibodies are shown. The spike-ins confirmed optimal experimental conditions (H3K4me3 antibody specifically recovered the target dNuc, while IgG showed no preferential enrichment).

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Figure 3: CUT&RUN genome-wide heatmaps
CUT&RUN was performed as described in Figure 5. Heatmaps show two replicates (“Rep”) of IgG (left) and H3K4me3 (right) kit control antibodies in aligned rows ranked by intensity (top to bottom) and colored such that red indicates high localized enrichment and blue denotes background signal.

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Figure 4: Representative gene browser tracks
CUT&RUN was performed as described in Figure 5. A representative 174 kb window at the TRMT2A gene is shown for two replicates (“Rep”) of IgG and H3K4me3 kit control antibodies. Representative tracks are also shown for antibodies to H3K27me3 and the transcription factor CTCF. The CUT&RUN kit produced the expected genomic distribution for each target. Images were generated using the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV, Broad Institute).

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Figure 5: CUT&RUN methods
CUT&RUN was performed using the CUTANA™ ChIC/CUT&RUN Kit starting with 500k K562 cells with 0.5 µg of either IgG (EpiCypher 13-0042), H3K4me3 (EpiCypher 13-0041), H3K27me3 (EpiCypher 13-0055), or 0.125 µg of CTCF (EpiCypher 13-2014) antibodies in duplicate. Library preparation was performed with 5 ng of DNA (or the total amount recovered if less than 5 ng) using the CUTANA™ Library Prep Kit (EpiCypher 14-1001/14-1002). Libraries were run on an Illumina NextSeq2000 with paired-end sequencing (2x50 bp). Sample sequencing depth was 3.5 million reads (IgG Rep 1), 3.8 million reads (IgG Rep 2), 4.7 million reads (H3K4me3 Rep 1), 6.9 million reads (H3K4me3 Rep 2), 6.6 million reads (H3K27me3 Rep 1), 4.7 million reads (H3K27me3 Rep 2), 3.9 million reads (CTCF Rep 1) and 4.6 million reads (CTCF Rep 2). Data were aligned to the hg19 genome using Bowtie2. Data were filtered to remove duplicates, multi-aligned reads, and blacklist regions.