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Neeraj Kumar1, Arnab Mukhopadhyay2
1Department of Reproductive Biology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
Abstract:
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) coupled to quantitative real-time PCR (ChIP-qPCR) or Next-Generation Sequencing (ChIP-seq) enables us to study the dynamics of chromatin recruitment of transcription factors (TFs). The popular model system Caenorhabditis elegans has provided us with fundamental understanding of the role of Insulin/IGF-1-like signaling (IIS) in metabolism and aging. The FOXO TF DAF-16 is the major output of the pathway that regulates most of the phenotypes associated with the IIS pathway. Here, we describe a ChIP protocol to study FOXO recruitment dynamics in whole C. elegans extracts. We discuss detailed practical procedures, including optimization, growth, harvesting, formaldehyde fixation, sonication of worms, TF immunoprecipitation for further downstream processing using qPCR as well as NGS for the analysis of FOXO-bound DNA.
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