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To facilitate ChIP experiments for identification of target genes, we generated 501Mel melanoma cell lines expressing HA-tagged POU3F2. Cell lines expressing N- or C-terminally HA-tagged POU3F2 were generated where the endogenous and exogenous tagged proteins could be detected using anti-POU3F2 or HA antibodies (Figure?1A). In these lines, the exogenous protein is expressed at close to physiological levels. Nevertheless, the presence of the C-terminal tag destabilised the protein and significant degradation from the N-terminus could be observed, particularly using the HA antibody (lane 2). Consequently, the N-terminally tagged POU3F2 was used in all further experiments. Anti-HA-ChIP was performed on cells expressing the N-terminally tagged POU3F2 or control untagged 501Mel cells. As previously described, http://www.selleck.cn/products/BEZ235.html specific enrichment on the Mitf-m promoter around the transcription start site (TSS) was seen in the HA-ChIP from the tagged, but not the untagged control cells (Figure?1B). Enrichment was also seen at sites 1?kb upstream and downstream of the promoter corresponding to additional POU3F2 binding sites http://www.selleckchem.com/products/AZD2281(Olaparib).html (see below). No enrichment was seen in the HA-ChIP at the control protamine 1 (Prm1) and dihydrofolate reductase (Dhfr) promoters, nor at any of the promoters in the control anti-GFP ChIP (Figure?1B). Duplicate HA-ChIPs from the tagged or control cells were then amplified and hybridised on the Agilent extended promoter array comprising the regions from around ?5?kb to +2?kb for 17?000 human promoters. These experiments identified 2108 loci bound by POU3F2 after HA-ChIP in tagged cells, but not in control cells (see Table?S1). These sites are located in the promoters of 1701 potential target genes. In some promoters there are therefore more than one distinct POU3F2 occupied locus. An equivalent fraction of the occupied loci (47%) are found upstream of the annotated TSS and inside the gene, mostly in the first intron. In addition, while there is no strict preference for the position of http://www.selleckchem.com/products/PLX-4032.html the binding sites, a mild enrichment between 1400 and 2300?bp downstream of the TSS was observed (Figure?2A, B). A small number of sites are annotated as ��downstream�� on the array, but most often correspond to regions where the 3�� end of one gene lies within the proximal promoter of its neighbour. A comparison of POU3F2 occupancy with gene expression in the 501Mel cells measured by Affymetrix microarray (see below), shows that around half of the POU3F2 occupied promoters are associated with genes showing no (