Genome-wide high-throughput integrome analyses by nrLAM-PCR and next-generation sequencing

A Paruzynski, A Arens, R Gabriel, CC Bartholomae… - Nature protocols, 2010 - nature.com
A Paruzynski, A Arens, R Gabriel, CC Bartholomae, S Scholz, W Wang, S Wolf, H Glimm
Nature protocols, 2010nature.com
High-throughput integration site profiling has become a feasible tool to assess vector
biosafety and to monitor the cell fate of the gene-corrected cell population in clinical gene
therapy studies. Here we report a step-by-step protocol for universal genome-wide and
comprehensive integrome analysis that can be performed on> 102–103 samples of interest
in parallel. This assay is composed of fast and cost-efficient non-restrictive linear
amplification–mediated PCR; optimized sample preparation for pyrosequencing; and …
Abstract
High-throughput integration site profiling has become a feasible tool to assess vector biosafety and to monitor the cell fate of the gene-corrected cell population in clinical gene therapy studies. Here we report a step-by-step protocol for universal genome-wide and comprehensive integrome analysis that can be performed on >102–103 samples of interest in parallel. This assay is composed of fast and cost-efficient non-restrictive linear amplification–mediated PCR; optimized sample preparation for pyrosequencing; and automated bioinformatic data mining, including sequence trimming, alignment to the cellular genome and further annotation. Moreover, the workflow of this large-scale assay can be adapted to any PCR-based method aiming to characterize unknown flanking DNA adjacent to a known DNA region. Thus, in combination with next-generation sequencing technologies, large-scale integrome analysis of >4 × 105–1 × 106 integration site sequences can be accomplished within a single week.
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