Pull-down affinity purifications using di-nucleosomes decorated with enhancer-associated modifications and incorporating 200bp linker DNA

Characteristic features of chromatin states are not limited to particular epigenetic modifications but include other regulatory cues, such as linker DNA length, typically ranging from around 35-55 bp in most eu- and heterochromatin domains (Valouev et al, 2011; Voong et al., 2016, Cell) to over 200 bp in nucleosome-depleted regions (NDRs) found at active enhancers and promoters (Schones et al, 2008; Hansen He et al, 2010). To investigate whether and how nucleosome linker DNA affects chromatin recognition by nuclear proteins we performed an additional set of affinity purifications using di-nucleosomes incorporating different DNA linkers. Here, we investigated the effect of a 200 bp di-nucleosome linker DNA represented by scrambled DNA or SV40 enhancer DNA sequence on the nuclear protein binding to di-nucleosome decorated with enhancer-associated modifications, including H3K4me1 and H3K27ac.