High-throughput mapping of origins of replication in human cells |
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Authors: | Lucas Isabelle Palakodeti Aparna Jiang Yanwen Young David J Jiang Nan Fernald Anthony A Le Beau Michelle M |
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Institution: | Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. |
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Abstract: | Mapping origins of replication has been challenging in higher eukaryotes. We have developed a rapid, genome-wide method to map origins of replication in asynchronous human cells by combining the nascent strand abundance assay with a highly tiled microarray platform, and we validated the technique by two independent assays. We applied this method to analyse the enrichment of nascent DNA in three 50-kb regions containing known origins of replication in the MYC, lamin B2 (LMNB2) and haemoglobin beta (HBB) genes, a 200-kb region containing the rare fragile site, FRAXA, and a 1,075-kb region on chromosome 22; we detected most of the known origins and also 28 new origins. Surprisingly, the 28 new origins were small in size and located predominantly within genes. Our study also showed a strong correlation between origin replication timing and chromatin acetylation. |
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