Genome-wide analysis for protein-DNA interaction: ChIP-chip.

Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a well-established procedure for protein-DNA interaction research. ChIP-chip, combining chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and microarray technology (Chip), enables scientists to survey genome-wide DNA binding sites for a given protein. The ChIP-chip technique has been used to identify transcription factor binding sites, explore epigenomic information and investigate factors in DNA replicate/repairs. Here we describe a protocol for ChIP-chip to study Pituitary Tumor Transforming Gene (PTTG1) in mammalian cells.