In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we talked with Mitch Guttman from California Institute of Technology about his work on characterising the 3D interactions of the genome using Split-Pool Recognition of Interactions by Tag Extension (SPRITE).
Mitch Guttman discusses his exploration of the long non-coding RNA Xist, which plays a crucial role in X chromosome inactivation. He explains how they discovered that Xist is present everywhere in the nucleus, not just in specific locations on the X chromosome. Through their research, they identified critical proteins like SHARP that are involved in X chromosome silencing.
The discussion then shifts to SPRITE, a method they developed to map multi-way contacts and generalize beyond DNA to include RNA and proteins. They compare SPRITE to classical proximity ligation methods like Hi-C and discuss how cluster sizes in SPRITE can estimate 3D distances between molecules. The conversation also touches upon the potential of applying SPRITE to single-cell experiments, allowing for the mapping of higher order nucleic acid interactions and tracking the connectivity of DNA fragments in individual cells.
References
Jesse M. Engreitz et al., The Xist lncRNA Exploits Three-Dimensional Genome Architecture to Spread Across the X Chromosome. Science 341,1237973(2013). DOI:10.1126/science.1237973
Chun-Kan Chen et al., Xist recruits the X chromosome to the nuclear lamina to enable chromosome-wide silencing. Science 354, 468-472(2016). DOI: 10.1126/science.aae0047
Quinodoz, S. A., Ollikainen, N., Tabak, B., Palla, A., Schmidt, J. M., Detmar, E., Lai, M. M., Shishkin, A. A., Bhat, P., Takei, Y., Trinh, V., Aznauryan, E., Russell, P., Cheng, C., Jovanovic, M., Chow, A., Cai, L., McDonel, P., Garber, M., & Guttman, M. (2018). Higher-Order Inter-chromosomal Hubs Shape 3D Genome Organization in the Nucleus. Cell, 174(3), 744-757.e24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.05.024
Goronzy, I. N., Quinodoz, S. A., Jachowicz, J. W., Ollikainen, N., Bhat, P., & Guttman, M. (2022). Simultaneous mapping of 3D structure and nascent RNAs argues against nuclear compartments that preclude transcription. Cell Reports, 41(9), 111730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111730
Perez, A. A., Goronzy, I. N., Blanco, M. R., Guo, J. K., & Guttman, M. (2023). ChIP-DIP: A multiplexed method for mapping hundreds of proteins to DNA uncovers diverse regulatory elements controlling gene expression [Preprint]. Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.14.571730
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