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Mapping Genome-wide Binding Sites of Prox1 in Mouse Cochlea Using the CUT&RUN Approach

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We thank Dr. Qian Hu and the Optical Imaging Facility at the Institute of Neuroscience (ION) for support with image analysis, and the Embryology Department of the Animal Center at ION, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for in vitro fertilization. The Rosa26-LSL-Prox1/+ knock-in mouse was generated by Beijing Biocytogen Co., Ltd. We thank Dr. Steve Henikoff from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for kindly providing pA-MNase. This research was supported by the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology (2019-MDB-KF-12), the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFA0103901), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science (XDB32060100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81771012), a Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (2018SHZDZX05), and the Innovative Research Team of High-Level Local Universities in Shanghai (SSMU-ZLCX20180601).

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Luo, Z., Zhang, J., Qiao, L. et al. Mapping Genome-wide Binding Sites of Prox1 in Mouse Cochlea Using the CUT&RUN Approach. Neurosci. Bull. 37, 1703–1707 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-021-00757-x

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