TAF-ChIP: An ultra-low input approach for genome wide chromatin immunoprecipitation assay

2018

Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) followed by next generation sequencing is an invaluable and powerful technique to understand transcriptional regulation. However, ChIP is currently limited by the requirement of large amount of starting material. This renders studying rare cell populations very challenging, or even impossible. Here, we present a tagmentation-assisted fragmentation ChIP (TAF-ChIP) and sequencing method to generate high-quality datasets from low cell numbers. The method relies on Tn5 transposon activity to fragment the chromatin that is immunoprecipitated, thus circumventing the need for sonication or MNAse digestion to fragment. Furthermore, Tn5 adds the sequencing adapto…