Capturing Common Fragile Site Breaks by Native γH2A.X ChIP

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To begin, treat the HEK 293 T cells with DMSO ethyl decolin and hydroxyurea in three different plates for 24 hours. After washing the cells twice with PBS, centrifuge them at 500 G four, five minutes at four degrees Celsius. Re-suspend the pellet in 500 microliters of freshly prepared cold buffer A, and incubate on ice for five to 10 minutes.

Observe the lysis progression under a light microscope to confirm complete cell lysis. Once lysed, centrifuge the cell suspension at 500 G for five minutes at four degrees Celsius, and resuspend the nuclei pellet in 500 microliters of cold buffer A.Centrifuge again, and resuspend the intact nuclei with 100 microliters of micrococcal nuclease buffer by pipetting five to 10 times. Immediately add the predetermined amount of micrococcal nuclease to the samples.

Place the tubes on a rotator for five minutes at 37 degrees Celsius. Immediately return the tubes to ice, and add EDTA to terminate the digestion. After vortexing, add 500 microliters of buffer B and pipette up and down for mixing.

Incubate the tube on ice for five minutes to solubilize the proteins. To pellet the insoluble material, centrifuge the samples at maximum speed for five minutes at four degrees Celsius. Transfer the clear supernatant to new 1.5 milliliter tubes, labeled as the native chromatin fraction.

To verify chromatin fragmentation, aliquot 10 microliters of the supernatant into a new 1.5 milliliter tube. Mix the supernatant with 20 microliters of distilled water and 30 microliters of phenol chloroform isoamyl alcohol. After vigorous vortexing, centrifuge the tubes at 20, 000 G for 10 minutes at four degrees Celsius and observe three distinct layers:a clear top layer, a white middle layer, and a yellow bottom layer.

Carefully transfer 20 microliters of the upper aqueous phase, containing DNA to a fresh tube. Separate the purified DNA in a 1.5%agarose gel for 30 minutes at 100 volts. Visualize the digestion patterns, ensuring the size of chromatin fragments is primarily between 200 and 1, 000 base pairs.

Transfer 20 microliters of digested chromatin into each tube, containing 180 microliters of elution buffer. Label the tubes as input samples, and store them at minus 20 degrees Celsius. Add 400 microliters of digested chromatin into another 1.5 milliliter tube for chromatin immunoprecipitation, or chip.

Transfer gamma H2 AX antibody to DMSO treated, ethyl decolin treated, and hydroxyurea treated sample. Place the tubes on a rotator at four degrees Celsius for five hours, or preferably overnight. Meanwhile, using wide orifice tips, aliquot 100 microliters of chip grade magnetic protein AG beads into a new 1.5 milliliter tube.

Place the tube on a magnetic stand for one minute, then carefully discard the liquid. Next, re-suspend the beads in one milliliter of PBS containing 0.5%BSA. Rotate the tube at four degrees Celsius for four hours.

Place the tube back on the magnetic stand for one minute and discard the supernatant. After the second wash, resuspend the pre-coded beads in 100 microliters of buffer B.Add 25 microliters of the pre-coded magnetic bead suspension to each chip sample tube. Rotate the tubes at four degrees Celsius for two hours, then place the chip tubes on a magnetic stand and wait until the beads attach to the side of the tube and the solution becomes clear.

Discard the clear supernatant without disturbing the magnetic beads. Resuspend the beads in one milliliter of wash buffer and rotate at four degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. Place the tubes back on the magnetic stand and wait until the solution becomes clear before discarding the wash buffer.

After the final wash, briefly centrifuge the tubes at 400 G for 30 seconds at four degrees Celsius to remove residual liquid. Place the tubes back on the magnetic stand and carefully remove any remaining liquid from the bottom of the tube. After verifying the chip antibody pull down efficiency, using western blot, add 50 microliters of elution buffer to each of the remaining chip samples.

Place the tubes on a Therma-mixer and shake for 15 minutes at room temperature. Place the tubes on a magnetic holder for one minute and collect the eluit into new tubes. Add 100 microliters of elution buffer to each chip elution sample, and 180 microliters of elution buffer to each input sample.

Then add 200 microliters of phenol chloroform isoamyl alcohol to each sample and vortex the tubes vigorously to mix. After centrifuging the samples, carefully transfer the upper aqueous layer to the tubes containing 19 microliters of three molar sodium acetate and two microliters of glycogen solution. Mix by vortexing the tubes.

Add 500 microliters of 100%ethanol to each sample, and vortex thoroughly. Place the tubes at minus 20 degrees Celsius for two hours, or overnight to precipitate the DNA. Then centrifuge the tubes before discarding the supernatant, and re-suspending the pellet in one milliliter of 70%ethanol.

Once residual ethanol is removed by centrifugation, air dry the DNA pellets for two to three minutes before re-suspending them in 400 microliters of TE buffer. Higher concentrations of micrococcal nuclease led to more extensive digestion of chromatin, resulting in a predominance of mono-nucleosome fragments. In contrast, at lower micrococcal nuclease concentrations, the majority of chromatin fragments were larger, often exceeding one kilo base.

Gamma H2 AX levels were significantly elevated in replication stressed cells, treated with ethyl decolin, compared to DMSO treated controls as shown in the input samples for both native chip and cross-linked chip.