AHT-ChIP-seq: a completely automated robotic protocol for high-throughput chromatin immunoprecipitation

Genome Biol. 2013 Nov 7;14(11):R124. doi: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-11-r124.

Abstract

ChIP-seq is an established manually-performed method for identifying DNA-protein interactions genome-wide. Here, we describe a protocol for automated high-throughput (AHT) ChIP-seq. To demonstrate the quality of data obtained using AHT-ChIP-seq, we applied it to five proteins in mouse livers using a single 96-well plate, demonstrating an extremely high degree of qualitative and quantitative reproducibility among biological and technical replicates. We estimated the optimum and minimum recommended cell numbers required to perform AHT-ChIP-seq by running an additional plate using HepG2 and MCF7 cells. With this protocol, commercially available robotics can perform four hundred experiments in five days.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chromatin Immunoprecipitation / instrumentation
  • Chromatin Immunoprecipitation / methods*
  • Hep G2 Cells
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / instrumentation
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / methods*
  • Humans
  • Liver / metabolism
  • MCF-7 Cells
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Robotics / instrumentation
  • Robotics / methods*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA