harvested and cross-linked for 5 min at room temperature using 1%
formaldehyde. Cells were lysed for by rotating for 10 min at 4 °C in
cell lysis buffer (20mM Tris pH8, 85mM KCl, 0.5% NP-40, protease inhibitor
cocktail). Nuclei were pelleted and re-suspended in nuclei lysis buffer
(50mM Tris pH8, 10mM EDTA, 0.25% SDS, protease inhibitor cocktail).
Chromatin was sheared by Covaris S2 using AFA microtube and a low cell
chromatin shearing protocol for 12 min. Lysates were cleared by
centrifugation at 20,000×g at 4 °C for 5 min and used as IP
inputs. IP was done using MAGnify™ Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
System (Thermo Fisher Scientific) following manufacturer’s protocols.
The antibodies used were as follows: rabbit anti-H3K27ac (Abcam, Cat. #
Ab4729, Lot. # GR312658–1; ChIP validation and peer-reviewed
citations at
rabbit anti-H3K27me3 (Millipore, Cat. # 07–449, Lot. # 2686928; ChIP
validation at
Cat. - 07%252D449). Chromatin samples were sent for high throughput
sequencing.