Influence of Sox4 on chromatin accessibility of adult hepatocytes II
Recent studies have demonstrated that hepatocytes can be reprogrammed into biliary epithelial cell-like cells. An earlier work in our laboratory nominated Sox4 as an initiation factor of this reprogramming event To investigate the effect of Sox4 on the change of chromatin landscape of hepatocytes, we performed ATAC-seq of exogenously Sox4-expressed hepatocytes. Overall design: Mice were injected with adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) packaged with mouse Sox4 (AAV8-TBG-HA-Sox4-P2A-Cre) or empty virus (AAV8-TBG-Cre), and hepatocytes were harvested 4 days post injection by a standard 2-step liberase digestion method followed by a Percoll enrichment step.