CUT&RUN Positive Control

• Cell harvest
• • Harvest cells from day 10.5 mouse embryo front limbs, estimating 90,000 cells per antibody to be used at RT.
  • Centrifuge cell solution 3 min at 600 x g at RT.
  • Remove the liquid carefully.
  • Gently resuspend cells in 1 mL Wash Buffer (20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, 0.5 mM Spermidine, Roche Complete Protease Inhibitor EDTA-free) by pipetting and transfer cell solution to a 2 mL microcentrifuge tube.
  • Centrifuge cell solution 3 min at 600 x g at RT and discard the supernatant.
  • Repeat twice for a total of three washes.
  • Resuspend cell pellet in 1 mL Wash Buffer by gently pipetting.
• Concanavalin A beads preparation
• • Prepare one 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tube.
  • Gently resuspend the magnetic Concanavalin A Beads (antibodies-online, ABIN6923139).
  • Pipette 10 µL Con A Beads slurry for each sample into the 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tube.
  • Place the tube on a magnet stand until the fluid is clear. Remove the liquid carefully.
  • Remove the microcentrifuge tube from the magnetic stand.
  • Pipette 1 mL Binding Buffer (20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 10 mM KCl, 1 mM CaCl₂, 1 mM MnCl₂) into each tube and resuspend ConA beads by gentle pipetting.
  • Spin down the liquid from the lid with a quick pulse in a table-top centrifuge.
  • Place the tubes on a magnet stand until the fluid is clear. Remove the liquid carefully.
  • Remove the microcentrifuge tube from the magnetic stand.
  • Repeat twice for a total of three washes.
  • Gently resuspend the ConA Beads in a volume of Binding Buffer corresponding to the original volume of bead slurry, i.e. 10 µL per sample.
• Cell immobilization – binding to Concanavalin A beads
• • Carefully vortex the cell suspension and add 10 µL of the Con A beads in Binding Buffer to the cell suspension for each sample.
  • Close tube tightly and rotate for 10 min at RT.
• Cell permeabilization and primary antibody binding
• • Divide cell suspension into separate 2 mL microcentrifuge tubes, one for each antibody (500,000 cells per sample).
  • Place the microcentrifuge tubes on a magnetic stand until the fluid is clear. Remove the liquid carefully.
  • Remove the microcentrifuge tubes from the magnetic stand.
  • Place each tube at a low angle on the vortex mixer set to a low speed and add 150 µL Digitonin Wash buffer (wash buffer with 0.025% (wt/vol) Digitonin) supplemented with 2 mM EDTA.
  • Gently vortex the microcentrifuge tubes until the beads are resuspended.
  • Add 1.5 µL rabbit anti-H3K27me3 antibody CUT&RUN positive control (antibodies-online, ABIN6923144, lot s-08-02482) corresponding to a 1:100 dilution.
  • Rotate the microcentrifuge tubes ON at 4 °C.
  • Spin down the liquid and place the tubes on a magnet stand until the fluid is clear. Remove the liquid carefully.
  • Remove the microcentrifuge tubes from the magnetic stand.
  • Resuspend with 1 mL Digitonin Wash Buffer and mix by inversion. If clumping occurs, gently remove the clumps with a 1 ml pipette tip.
  • Repeat once for a total of two washes.
• pA-MNase Binding
• • Place the tubes on a magnet stand until the fluid is clear. Remove the liquid carefully.
  • Remove the microcentrifuge tubes from the magnetic stand.
  • Vortex the sample at low speed and add 150 μL pA-MNase solution at 700 ng/mL (1:200 dilution of a 140 µg/mL glycerol stock in Digitonin Wash Buffer) per sample, gently resuspending the beads by pipetting.
  • Rotate the microcentrifuge tubes for 1 h at 4 °C.
  • Spin down the liquid and place the tubes on a magnet stand until the fluid is clear. Remove the liquid carefully.
  • Remove the microcentrifuge tubes from the magnetic stand.
  • Resuspend with 1 mL Digitonin Wash Buffer and mix by inversion. If clumping occurs, gently remove the clumps with a 1 mL pipette tip.
  • Repeat once for a total of two washes.
• MNase digestion and release of pA-MNase-antibody-chromatin complexes
• • Spin down the liquid from the lid with a quick pulse in a table-top centrifuge.
  • Place the tubes on a magnet stand until the fluid is clear. Remove the liquid carefully.
  • Place each tube at a low angle on the vortex mixer set to a low speed and add 100 μL Digitonin Wash buffer per sample along the side of the tube.
  • Place tubes in a heat block, kept on ice, and allow to chill.
  • Add 2 μL 0.1 M CaCl2 to each sample.
  • Incubate tubes at 0 °C for 30 min.
  • Add 100 μL 2xSTOP buffer (340 mM NaCl, 20 mM EDTA, 4 mM EGTA, 0.05% (wt/vol) Digitonin, 100 μg/mL RNAse A, 50 μg/mL Glycogen).
  • Incubate tubes at 37 °C for 30 min.
  • Place the tubes on a magnet stand until the fluid is clear.
  • Transfer the supernatant containing the pA-MNase-bound digested chromatin fragments to fresh 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tubes.
• DNA extraction
• • Add 2 µL 10% SDS to a final concentration of 0.1% and 2.5 µL Proteinase K (20 mg/mL) to each supernatant.
  • Gently vortex tubes at a low speed of approximately 1,100 rpm.
  • Incubate tubes at 50 °C for 1 h.
  • Add 200 µL PCI to tube.
  • Vortex tubes thoroughly at high speed until the liquid appears milky.
  • Centrifuge tubes in a tabletop centrifuge at 16,000 x g at RT for 5 min.
  • Carefully transfer to upper aqueous phase to a fresh 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tube containing 2 µL glycogen (diluted 1:10 to 2 mg/mL from the 20 mg/mL stock solution).
  • Add 20 µL 3 M NaOAc pH 5.2.
  • Add 400 µL 100% ethanol.
  • Place tubes for at -20 °C ON.
  • Centrifuge tubes in a tabletop centrifuge at 16,000 x g at 4 °C for 5min.
  • Remove the liquid carefully with a pipette.
  • Wash pellet with 1ml 70% ethanol.
  • Centrifuge tubes in a tabletop centrifuge at 16,000 x g at 4 °C for 1 min.
  • Remove the liquid carefully with a pipette.
  • Air-dry the pellet, then dissolve in 30 µL 1 mM Tris-HCl, 0.1 mM EDTA.
• Library preparation and sequencing
• • Libraries were prepared using KAPA HyperPrep Kit using KAPA Dual-Indexed adapters according to protocol.
  • Samples were sequenced on an Illumina NextSeq 500 sequencer, using a NextSeq 500/550 High Output Kit v2.5 (75 Cycles), 36bp PE.
• Peak calling
• • Reads were mapped to the GRCm38 (mm10) mouse genome using Bowtie2 with options: --local --very-sensitive- local --no-unal --no-mixed --no-discordant.
  • Peaks were called using MACS2 with options -f BAMPE --keep-dup all –nomodel.

PCUT&RUN libraries generated using the H3K27me3 CUT&RUN positive control antibody ABIN6923144 show the pattern typical for a nucleosome ladder.