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Engineered Multivalent Sensors to Detect Coexisting Histone Modifications in Living Stem Cells
Cell Chemical Biology ( IF 8.6 ) Pub Date : 2017-11-22 , DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.10.008 Aurore M.-F. Delachat , Nora Guidotti , Andreas L. Bachmann , Antonio C.A. Meireles-Filho , Horst Pick , Carolin C. Lechner , Cédric Deluz , Bart Deplancke , David M. Suter , Beat Fierz
Cell Chemical Biology ( IF 8.6 ) Pub Date : 2017-11-22 , DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.10.008 Aurore M.-F. Delachat , Nora Guidotti , Andreas L. Bachmann , Antonio C.A. Meireles-Filho , Horst Pick , Carolin C. Lechner , Cédric Deluz , Bart Deplancke , David M. Suter , Beat Fierz
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The regulation of fundamental processes such as gene expression or cell differentiation involves chromatin states, demarcated by combinatorial histone post-translational modification (PTM) patterns. The subnuclear organization and dynamics of chromatin states is not well understood, as tools for their detection and modulation in live cells are lacking. Here, we report the development of genetically encoded chromatin-sensing multivalent probes, cMAPs, selective for bivalent chromatin, a PTM pattern associated with pluripotency in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). cMAPs were engineered from a set of PTM-binding (reader) proteins and optimized using synthetic nucleosomes carrying defined PTMs. Applied in live ESCs, cMAPs formed discrete subnuclear foci, revealing the organization of bivalent chromatin into local clusters. Moreover, cMAPs enabled direct monitoring of the loss of bivalency upon treatment with small-molecule epigenetic modulators. cMAPs thus provide a versatile platform to monitor chromatin state dynamics in live cells.
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