Chromatin immunopreciptiation of human lymphoblastoid untreated and treated with aphidicolin (APH), trichostatin A (TSA), or APH plus TSA cells to map the origins of DNA replication at common fragile sites
Map the origins of DNA replication in human cells at 7 common fragile sites and their flanking non-fragile sequences as well as a 200kb containing the rare fragile site FRAXA, and a 1,075kb non-fragile region on chr22 . The origins were mapped in untreated cells, as well as, in cells treated with aphidicolin (APH), trichostatin A (TSA), or APH plus TSA. The origin mapping experiment is based on the fact that during S phase, short newly replicated DNA fragments (300bp-1kb) are generated only at the origins of replication. By combining the nascent strand assay with a tiled microarray platform, we have previoulsy developed a rapid, non-PCR based, high-throughput approach to map active origins in asynchronous human cells (Lucas et al., 2007, AC 17668008).