CUTAC for FFPEs v1

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For more than a century, Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) sample preparation has been the preferred method for long-term preservation of biological material. However, the use of FFPE samples for epigenomic studies has been difficult because of chromatin damage from long exposure to high concentrations of formaldehyde. Previously, we introduced Cleavage Under Targeted Accessible Chromatin (CUTAC), an antibody-targeted chromatin accessibility mapping protocol based on CUT&Tag. Recently, we showed that simple modifications of our single-tube CUTAC protocol are sufficient to produce high-resolution maps of paused RNA Polymerase II (RNAPII) at enhancers and promoters using FFPE samples. We found that transcriptional regulatory element differences produced by FFPE-CUTAC distinguish between tumor specimens and identify regulatory element markers with high confidence and precision. Our simple step-by-step workflow makes possible affordable epigenomic profiling of archived biological samples for biomarker identification, clinical applications and retrospective studies.

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