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Generation of Native Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing Libraries for Nucleosome Density Analysis
Published on: December 12, 2017
Analysis of primary structure of chromatin with next-generation sequencing
Michael Y Tolstorukov1, Peter V Kharchenko, Peter J Park
1Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, 10 Shattuck St., Boston, MA 02115 USA.
Abstract:
The recent development of next-generation sequencing technology has enabled significant progress in chromatin structure analysis. Here, we review the experimental and bioinformatic approaches to studying nucleosome positioning and histone modification profiles on a genome scale using this technology. These studies advanced our knowledge of the nucleosome positioning patterns of both epigenetically modified and bulk nucleosomes and elucidated the role of such patterns in regulation of gene expression. The identification and analysis of large sets of nucleosome-bound DNA sequences allowed better understanding of the rules that govern nucleosome positioning in organisms of various complexity. We also discuss the existing challenges and prospects of using next-generation sequencing for nucleosome positioning analysis and outline the importance of such studies for the entire chromatin structure field.
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