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Tumor samples that were snap frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −80°C were used for ChIP assays. MDA-MB-231 tumors from the treatment groups 1) vehicle control (VC), 2) KX-01, 3) tamoxifen (TAM), and 4) TAM + KX-01 were used. MCF-7 tumors were used as a positive control for ERα expression. The ChIP assay was performed using the Magna ChIP G tissue kit according to the manufacturer’s protocol (Millipore) and our previous studies (23). Briefly, a 5 mm3 tumor tissue piece was obtained using a micro-dissection punch and the sample was dispersed in 1 ml Magna ChIP G tissue stabilization solution with protease inhibitors and then cross-linked using 1% formaldehyde treatment (prepared fresh; 270 μl of 37% formaldehyde [Sigma] to 10 ml of PBS). Glycine (125 mM) was used to quench the formaldehyde and block further cross linking. After centrifugation at 800 × g at 4°C for 5 min, the pellet was rinsed in PBS, suspended in 500 μl Magna ChIP G tissue lysis buffer, vortexed well and incubated on ice for 15 min. Cells were then centrifuged at 800 × g at 4°C for 5 min and the supernatant was removed. The cell pellet was re-suspended in 125 μl Magna ChIP dilution buffer in a 1.5 ml tube, and the samples were sonicated using the Bioruptor automatic sonicator (Diagenode, Denville, NJ) at 4°C for 12 cycles of 30 seconds “ON”/30 seconds “OFF” to shear chromatin and generate DNA fragments of 200-1000 base pairs. 5 μl (1%) of the content was removed and saved in 4° C as input. The sheared cross-linked chromatin was immunoprecipitated (IP) using ChIP-validated antibodies to acetyl-histone H3, acetyl-histone H3- Lys9 (H3K9), trimethyl-histone H3-Lys9 (Upstate Biotechnology), HDAC1 and RNA Pol II (Santa Cruz Biotechnology). Each IP reaction consisted of 125 μl of chromatin + 375 μl of dilution buffer with protease inhibitors + 20 μl of protein G magnetic beads + 5 μg of primary antibody. The IP reactions were incubated at 4° C overnight with rotation. IgG from the same species as the primary antibodies served as negative controls. Magnetic beads were separated using a magnetic separator (Biolabs) and the supernatant was discarded. The Protein G magnetic beads-antibody-chromatin complex was incubated with a series of wash buffers provided in the Magna ChIP G tissue Kit: one time each for 5 min each wash on a rotating platform followed by magnetic clearance and careful removal of the supernatant fractions: 500 μl low salt immune complex wash buffer, 500 μl high salt immune complex wash buffer, 500 μl LiCl immune complex wash buffer, 500 μl TE buffer. Following immunoprecipitation, protein-DNA cross-links were reversed by adding 100 μl Magna Chip elution buffer with proteinase K and incubated at 62° C for 2 h with shaking followed by incubation at 95 ° C for 10 min. Samples were allowed to cool to room temperature and the magnetic beads were separated and supernatant was transferred to a new tube and DNA was purified using spin columns according to the manufactures protocol. ChIP-purified DNA was amplified by standard PCR using primers for the ERα promoter (sense, 5’-GAACCGTCCGCAGCTCAAGATC-3’; antisense, 5’GTCTGACCGTAGACCTGCGCGTTG-3’) yielding a 150 bp fragment using the following reactions conditions: 2 μl of ChIP purified DNA or 1% total input DNA, 200 nmol/L of each primer, 1.5 mmol/L MgCl2, 200 μmol/L dNTP, 10X PCR gold buffer (Applied Biosystems), and 2 units of Hot start AmpliTaq Gold DNA polymerase (Applied Biosystems) in a total volume of 20 μl. The reaction was initiated at 94°C for 4 min followed by 30 cycles of PCR (94°C, 30 s; 56°C, 30 s; 72°C, 1 min), and extended at 72°C for 5 min. After amplification, PCR products were separated on a 1.5% agarose gel and visualized by ethidium bromide staining using a Gel Doc 2000 instrument (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA). All ChIP assays were performed three times yielding similar results.
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