GSM5570332: 9sCa: NPCs_Control_BRD4_rep2; Mus musculus; ChIP-Seq
RNAseq: Total RNA was extracted using the Direct-zol RNA Miniprep Plus Kit (Zymo Research) according to the manufacturers' instructions. Maxima First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit (Thermo Scientific) was used to synthesize cDNA from total RNA according to the manufacturers' instructions. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR was carried out on Roche LightCycler II using the Faststart SYBR Green Master (Rox) mix (Roche) at a final volume of 10μL.  TT-seq: In brief, 10 million NPCs were incubated with N2B27 medium supplemented with 500 uM 4- thiouridine (4sU, Sigma) for 5 minutes at 37°C. Total RNA was isolated, fragmented using Bioruptor Plus for 1 minute (30s ON, 30s OFF, high setting), and incubated with Biotin-HPDP (Thermo Scientific) for 2 hours. MyOne C1 Streptavidin magnetic beads (Thermo Scientific) were used to immunoprecipitate labelled RNA before elution in 5% beta-mercaptoethanol (Roth). FInal RNA was cleaned up using the Oligo Clean and Concentrator Kit (Zymo Research) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Libraries were prepared from 100 ng of high quality RNA using the Ovation Universal RNA-Seq System (Nugen) according to the manufacturer's instructions. ChIPseq: MSL2 WT and KO NPCs were covered with 1% formaldehyde in culture media on the plate and incubated at room temperature (RT) on a rocking plate for 10 min. Media was removed and cells were washed twice with 1xPBS supplemented with 1x protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche). Cells were scraped off the plate, collected in ice-cold 1xPBS and centrifuged at 500g for 5 minutes. After an additional 1xPBS wash, cell pellets were stored at -80°C until usage. Nuclei were isolated using the NEXSON based nuclei isolation protocol. Cell pellets were thawed on ice and resuspended in ice cold 1ml of lysis buffer (10mM Tris-HCl pH 8, 10mM NaCl, 0.2% Igepal, 1x protease inhibitor cocktail). The cell suspension was then transferred into 1ml milliTUBE (Covaris) and sonicated in Covaris instrument (E220) for 30 sec at peak power 75W, duty factor 2% and 200 cycles/burst. Nuclei were pelleted at 1000g at 20°C for 5min. The cytoplasmic fraction in the supernatant was discarded and nuclear pellets were carefully resuspended in 0.5% SDS and incubated at room temperature for 10min. Sample was diluted 1:5 in the digestion buffer (Final concentration: 1.1% Triton, 1x CutSmart buffer, nuclease free H2O, 1x protease inhibitor cocktail). Chromatin of up to 1 million nuclei were digested in 250ul digestion buffer with Cvik1 (5U/100.000 cells, New England Biolabs) at 20°C for 16hrs, shaking at 800rpm. After the chromatin digestion, the nuclei were pelleted for 5min at 1000g and washed in cold nuclei wash solution (10mM Tris-HCl pH 8, 0.25% Triton, 0.2mg/ml BSA) and stored on ice. To confirm the enzymatic chromatin shearing efficiency, 5% of the nuclei solution was incubated together with a decrosslinking solution consisting of 2ul proteinase K, 1ul RNaseA and 4ul 5M NaCl at 37°C for 30min followed by a 2hr incubation at 65°C. DNA was purified using MinElute PCR purification kit (Qiagen) and analyzed on a Agilent Tapestation system (G2964AA) using the Agilent D1000 Screentape reagents. ATACseq: In brief, nuclei of 50,000 cells per replicate were isolated in 50 μl of cold ATAC resuspension buffer (0.1% NP-40, 0.1% Tween-20, and 0.01% digitonin (Promega)) by incubating on ice for 3 minutes. After lysis, 1 ml of cold ATAC resuspension buffer containing 0.1% Tween-20 (without NP-40 or digitonin) was added, and nuclei were then centrifuged at 500g for 10 minutes. Transposition was carried out using 50 μl of transposition mix (25 μl 2X TD buffer (Illumina), 2.5 μl transposase (Illumina), 16.5 μl 1X PBS, 0.5 μl 1% digitonin, 0.5 μl 10% Tween-20, and 5 μl water) at 37°C for 30 minutes in a thermomixer with shaking at 1000 rpm. Transposed DNA was collected using Zymo DNA Clean and Concentrator (Zymo Research) according to the manufacturer's instructions, and added to the PCR mix containing 25 μl of NEBNext Master Mix (New England Biolabs) and 5 μl of Index adapters (Illumina). Libraries were amplified using the following PCR program: 72°C for 5 minutes, 98°C for 30 seconds, then 10 cycles of: 98°C for 10 seconds, 63°C for 30 seconds, and 72°C for 1 minute. Library quality was analyzed using the Fragment analyzer (Agilent Technologies) prior to sequencing. BSseq: Bisulfite-Seq was performed using the NEBNext Enzymatic Methyl-seq Kit (E7120S) according to the manufacturer's instructions. In brief, genomic DNA (gDNA) was extracted from wild-type and MSL2 knockout NPCs using the QIAamp DNA Mini kit (Qiagen) according to the manufacturer's instructions.Subsequently, 50ng of high quality gDNA was sheared for 120 seconds using an E220 Covaris to obtain fragments between around 300 base pairs in length. Following end prep and EM-seq adapter ligation, DNA was oxidised and denatured using sodium hydroxide. Libraries were amplified for 6 PCR cycles, and sequenced with 2x100bp paired-end reads on an Illumina NovaSeq6000 sequencer.