Cells were incubated with 1% formaldehyde (Sigma-Aldrich, F8775) to cross-link between DNA and proteins, and sonicated to yield chromatin fragments with about 200-500 base pairs. Chromatin fragments were reacted with anti-CREB antibody (Cell Signaling, 9197) or anti-SOX10 antibody (Santa Cruz, sc-17342) at 4℃ overnight, and precipitated with protein A-sepharose bead-sheared salmon sperm slurry (Merck, 17-295) for 4 h. Input and precipitated DNAs were subjected to PCR encompassing CREB- or SOX10-responsive element at the MITF-M promoter. Nucleotide sequences of PCR primers are previously described 35 (link). PCR products were resolved on agarose gels by electrophoresis and stained with EcoDye.
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