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A systematic evaluation of the design and context dependencies of massively parallel reporter assays
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Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) functionally screen thousands of sequences for regulatory activity in parallel. To date, there are limited studies that systematically compare differences in MPRA design. Here, we screen a library of 2,440 candidate liver enhancers and controls for regulatory activity in HepG2 cells using nine different MPRA designs. We identify subtle but significant differences that correlate with epigenetic and sequence-level features, as well as differences in dynamic range and reproducibility. We also validate that enhancer activity is largely independent of orientation, at least for our library and designs. Finally, we assemble and test the same enhancers as 192-mers, 354-mers and 678-mers and observe sizable differences. This work provides a framework for the experimental design of high-throughput reporter assays, suggesting that the extended sequence context of tested elements and to a lesser degree the precise assay, influence MPRA results.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Klein, J. C., Agarwal, V., Inoue, F., Keith, A., Martin, B., Kircher, M., Ahituv, N., & Shendure, J.
- Affiliations
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ahituv, Nadav
- Shendure, Jay
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Methods
- Published
- 2020-10-12
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1083-1091
- ISSN
- 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-7105
- PMC
- PMC7727316
- OpenAlex
- W3092421956
- Cited by
- 226
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 46 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 10
- FWCI
- 8.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Methods (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (1UM1HG009408, 5R01HG009136, 5F30HG009479, 1R21HG010065)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5T32HL007093)
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (1R01MH109907, 1U01MH116438)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Keywords
- massively parallel reporter assay, assay design, enhancer activity, HepG2 cells, sequence context, dynamic range, reproducibility, epigenetic features
- MeSH terms
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Humans, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Transcription Factors, Reproducibility of Results, Gene Library, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Genes, Reporter, Hep G2 Cells, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
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