May 09, 2022

Public workspaceThe TARGET System: Rapid Identification of Direct Targets of Transcription Factors by Gene Regulation in Plant Cells V.2

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dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.rm7vz32yrgx1/v2
  • Matthew D. Brooks1,2,
  • Kelsey M. Reed3,
  • Gabriel Krouk4,
  • Gloria M. Coruzzi1,
  • Bastiaan O. R. Bargmann3
  • 1Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA;
  • 2USDA ARS Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, Urbana, IL, USA;
  • 3School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA;
  • 4BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.rm7vz32yrgx1/v2
Protocol Citation: Matthew D. Brooks, Kelsey M. Reed, Gabriel Krouk, Gloria M. Coruzzi, Bastiaan O. R. Bargmann 2022. The TARGET System: Rapid Identification of Direct Targets of Transcription Factors by Gene Regulation in Plant Cells. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.rm7vz32yrgx1/v2Version created by Bastiaan Bargmann
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,  which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: Working
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Created: May 09, 2022
Last Modified: May 09, 2022
Protocol Integer ID: 62262
Abstract
The TARGET system allows for the rapid identification of direct regulated gene targets of transcription factors (TFs). It employs the transient transformation of plant protoplasts with inducible nuclear entry of the TF and subsequent transcriptomic and/or ChIP-seq analysis. The ability to separate direct TF-target gene regulatory interactions from indirect downstream responses and the significantly shorter amount of time required to perform the assay, compared to the generation of transgenics, makes this plant cell-based approach a valuable tool for a higher through-put approach to identify the genome-wide targets of multiple TFs, to build validated transcriptional networks in plants. Here, we describe the use of the TARGET system in Arabidopsis seedling root protoplasts to map the gene regulatory network downstream of transcription factors-of-interest.

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