Figure 2.
Cluster analysis for repeat-associated histone lysine methylation states. ChIP of wt and Suv39h dn ES cell chromatin with antibodies detecting H3-K9, H3-K27 and H4-K20 mono-, di- and trimethylation. As controls, ChIP was also performed with H3-K4 trimethyl (an active mark) antibodies and for the tubulin gene. Purified DNA from enriched chromatin fragments was amplified by real-time PCR with the repeat-specific primer sets (see Figure 1B), and values are indicated as percentage precipitation relative to the input. The dashed line represents the threshold signal of 0.5%, above which significant enrichment for distinct histone lysine methylation states was scored.