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Chromatin-associated RNA sequencing (ChAR-seq) maps genome-wide RNA-to-DNA contacts

  1. Jason C Bell  Is a corresponding author
  2. David Jukam
  3. Nicole A Teran
  4. Viviana I Risca
  5. Owen K Smith
  6. Whitney L Johnson
  7. Jan M Skotheim
  8. William James Greenleaf
  9. Aaron F Straight  Is a corresponding author
  1. Stanford University, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.27024
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  1. Jason C Bell
  2. David Jukam
  3. Nicole A Teran
  4. Viviana I Risca
  5. Owen K Smith
  6. Whitney L Johnson
  7. Jan M Skotheim
  8. William James Greenleaf
  9. Aaron F Straight
(2018)
Chromatin-associated RNA sequencing (ChAR-seq) maps genome-wide RNA-to-DNA contacts
eLife 7:e27024.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.27024
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Abstract

RNA is a critical component of chromatin in eukaryotes, both as a product of transcription, and as an essential constituent of ribonucleoprotein complexes that regulate both local and global chromatin states. Here we present a proximity ligation and sequencing method called Chromatin-Associated RNA sequencing (ChAR-seq) that maps all RNA-to-DNA contacts across the genome. Using Drosophila cells we show that ChAR-seq provides unbiased, de novo identification of targets of chromatin-bound RNAs including nascent transcripts, chromosome-specific dosage compensation ncRNAs, and genome-wide trans-associated RNAs involved in co-transcriptional RNA processing.

Data availability

All sequence data has been deposited in GEO under accession number GSE97131The software analysis pipeline is available at https://gitlab.com/charseq/flypipe

The following data sets were generated
The following previously published data sets were used
    1. Li X
    2. Zhou B
    3. Chen L
    4. Gou L
    5. Li H
    6. Fu X
    (2017) GRID-seq reveals the global RNA-chromatin interactome
    Publicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE82312).
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE82312

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  1. Jason C Bell

    Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  2. David Jukam

    Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  3. Nicole A Teran

    Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  4. Viviana I Risca

    Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  5. Owen K Smith

    Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  6. Whitney L Johnson

    Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  7. Jan M Skotheim

    Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  8. William James Greenleaf

    Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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  9. Aaron F Straight

    Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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    astraigh@stanford.edu
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (Stanford Center for Systems Biology (NIH P50 GM107615) Seed Grant)

  • Jason C Bell
  • David Jukam
  • Viviana I Risca
  • Whitney L Johnson

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar Award)

  • Jan M Skotheim

National Institutes of Health (P50HG00773501)

  • William James Greenleaf

National Institutes of Health (R01GM106005)

  • Aaron F Straight

Stanford University School of Medicine (Dean's Fellowship)

  • Jason C Bell

National Institutes of Health (R01HG009909)

  • William James Greenleaf
  • Aaron F Straight

National Institutes of Health (R21HG007726)

  • William James Greenleaf

National Institutes of Health (NIH Ruth Kirchstein National Research Service Award (F32GM116338))

  • Jason C Bell

National Institutes of Health (NIH Ruth Kirchstein National Research Service Award (F32GM108295 ))

  • David Jukam

Stanford University (Walter V. and Idun Berry Fellowship)

  • Viviana I Risca

National Institutes of Health (Stanford Genetics Training Program (5T32HG000044-19))

  • Nicole A Teran

National Institutes of Health (Molecular Pharmacology Training Grant (NIH T32-GM113854-02))

  • Owen K Smith

National Institutes of Health (NIH T32 Training Fellowship (GM007276))

  • Whitney L Johnson

National Science Foundation (DGE-114747)

  • Whitney L Johnson

National Institutes of Health (RO1 HD085135)

  • Jan M Skotheim
  • Aaron F Straight

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2018, Bell et al.

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

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  1. Jason C Bell
  2. David Jukam
  3. Nicole A Teran
  4. Viviana I Risca
  5. Owen K Smith
  6. Whitney L Johnson
  7. Jan M Skotheim
  8. William James Greenleaf
  9. Aaron F Straight
(2018)
Chromatin-associated RNA sequencing (ChAR-seq) maps genome-wide RNA-to-DNA contacts
eLife 7:e27024.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.27024

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