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Applications in Cell-free Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (cfChIP)

 Apostle technologies have been applied in many world-class R&D studies, clinical laboratory settings, and public health response and surveillance.

This page lists some of the examples in Cell-free Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (cfChIP).

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Apostle MiniMax Technology in Clinical Research of Lung Cancer Using Cell-free Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP)

Cell-free chromatin immunoprecipitation can determine tumor gene expression in lung cancer patients. Christoffer Trier Maansson, Peter Meldgaard, Magnus Stougaard, Anders Lade Nielsen, Boe Sandahl Sorensen.  Molecular Oncology.  February 24, 2023. DOI: 10.1002/1878-0261.13394.

(Note: Apostle MiniMax technology is used in this study.)

Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in blood plasma can be bound to nucleosomes that contain post-translational modifications representing the epigenetic profile of the cell of origin. This includes histone H3 lysine 36 trimethylation (H3K36me3), a marker of active transcription. We hypothesized that cell-free chromatin immunoprecipitation (cfChIP) of H3K36me3-modified nucleosomes present in blood plasma can delineate tumor gene expression levels. H3K36me3 cfChIP followed by targeted NGS (cfChIP-seq) was performed on blood plasma samples from non-small cell lung cancer patients (NSCLC, n = 8), small cell lung cancer patients (SCLC, n = 4) and healthy controls (n = 4). H3K36me3 cfChIP-seq demonstrated increased enrichment of mutated alleles compared to normal alleles in plasma from patients with known somatic cancer mutations. Additionally, genes identified to be differentially expressed in SCLC and NSCLC tumors had concordant H3K36me3 cfChIP enrichment profiles in NSCLC (sensitivity = 0.80) and SCLC blood plasma (sensitivity = 0.86). Findings here expand the utility of cfDNA in liquid biopsies to characterize treatment resistance, cancer subtyping, and disease progression.

(Material and Methods section) -Both the input as well as the cfChIP samples were purified using Apostle MiniMax High Efficiency cfDNA Isolation Kit (Beckman Coulter, Indianapolis, IN, USA) according to manufacturer’s instructions. 


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Nature Communications just published a clinical study, including 2125 cancer patients, 9 cancer types, using the Apostle Minimax cfDNA technology. This study demonstrates the ability of its model to detect early-stage cancers using cfDNA, including those of pancreatic origin, with high sensitivity that is comparable to that of late-stage detection. Congratulations to this clinical research team. To date, the Apostle Minimax cfDNA technology has been used in 2 articles published in Nature Medicine, 1 in Nature Communications, 1 in Science Translational Medicine, 1 in PNAS, and over 50 scientific articles in different journals.