Fig. 8

Both human EAF1 and EAF2/U19 bind to the human Wnt4 promoter as revealed by chromatin immunoprecipitaion (ChIP) assays.

(A) 293 cells were treated with formaldehyde to create cross-links between EAF1 or EAF2/U19 and chromatin. The chromatin was isolated, sheared, and immunoprecipitated (IP) using polyclonal antibodies against human EAF1 and EAF2/U19, or preimmune serum as control. The presence of chromatin fragments corresponding to the Wnt4 gene or to the β-actin gene promoter was assessed by PCR using gene-specific primers. The gel shows the recovery of Wnt4 and actin gene fragments from the protein-chromatin input on the lane 3 and 6 (from left to right) as well as those recovered after immunoprecipitation with the anti-EAF1 antibody (lane 1), with the anti-EAF2/U19 antibody (lane4) and with the pre-immune serum (land 2 and 5). (B) Schematic diagram depicting the fragment of the EAF1, EAF2/U19 and actin genes that were amplified. The positions of PCR primers used to detect EAF1, EAF2/U19 and actin promoter fragments are indicated by arrows.