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Computational Chromosome Conformation Capture by Correlation of ChIP-seq at CTCF motifs

View ORCID ProfileJonas Ibn-Salem, View ORCID ProfileMiguel A. Andrade-Navarro
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/257584
Jonas Ibn-Salem
Faculty of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, 55128 Mainz, GermanyInstitute of Molecular Biology, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro
Faculty of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, 55128 Mainz, GermanyInstitute of Molecular Biology, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Abstract

Background Knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the genome is necessary to understand how gene expression is regulated. Recent experimental techniques such as Hi-C or ChIA-PET measure long-range interactions genome-wide but are experimentally elaborate and have limited resolution. Here, we present Computational Chromosome Conformation Capture by Correlation of ChIP-seq at CTCF motifs (7C).

Results While ChIP-seq was not designed to detect contacts, the formaldehyde treatment in the ChIP-seq protocol cross-links proteins with each other and with DNA. Consequently, also regions that are not directly bound by the targeted TF but interact with the binding site via chromatin looping are co-immunoprecipitated and sequenced. This produces minor ChIP-seq signals at loop anchor regions close to the directly bound site. We use the position and shape of ChIP-seq signals around CTCF motif pairs to predict whether they interact or not.

We applied 7C to all CTCF motif pairs within 1 MB in the human genome and validated predicted interactions with high-resolution Hi-C and ChIA-PET. A single ChIP-seq experiment from known architectural proteins (CTCF, Rad21, Znf143) but also from other TFs (like TRIM22 or RUNX3) predicts loops accurately. Importantly, 7C predicts loops in cell types and for TF ChIP-seq datasets not used in training.

Conclusion 7C predicts chromatin loops with base-pair resolution and can be used to associate TF binding sites to regulated genes in a condition-specific manner. Furthermore, profiling of hundreds of ChIP-seq datasets results in novel candidate factors functionally involved in chromatin looping. Our method is available as an R package: https://ibn-salem.github.io/sevenC/

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Computational Chromosome Conformation Capture by Correlation of ChIP-seq at CTCF motifs
Jonas Ibn-Salem, Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro
bioRxiv 257584; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/257584
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Jonas Ibn-Salem, Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro
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