ERC Starting Grant · 2018
Revealing the Epigenetic Regulatory Network with Single-Molecule Precision
Genes and genomic elements are packaged by chromatin structures that regulate their activity. The fundamental unit of chromatin is the nucleosome, composed of an octamer of histones. The large numbers of histone modifications, chromatin remodelers and transcription factors (TFs) that interact with our genome has fuelled speculation that multiple elements act combinatorially to direct specific outcomes. However, the field lacks technologies for detection and analysis of such combinations, thus impeding our ability to test this hypothesis and shed light on human genome regulation. Our recent proof-of-principle for a single-molecule system for mapping combinatorial chromatin modifications…
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