Experiment / E62WQVN6QWhole-Genome STARR-seq (WHG-STARR-seq)

HeLa-S3 whole-genome ORI STARR-seq with TBK1/IKK and PKR inhibition

Resolving systematic errors in widely-used enhancer activity assays in human cells enables genome-wide functional enhancer characterization

A genome-wide library of 1–1.5 kb size-selected human genomic DNA fragments was cloned into the ORI-based human STARR-seq vector and electroporated into HeLa-S3 cells. Cells received 1 µM PKR inhibitor C16 and 1 µM TBK1/IKK inhibitor BX-795 immediately after electroporation; the processed table contains the published peak calls from the inhibitor screen.

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Perturbation & assay details

1 µM PKR inhibitor C16 + 1 µM TBK1/IKK inhibitor BX-795 added immediately after electroporation

Episomal STARR-seq with the bacterial plasmid ORI used as the core promoter; reporter RNA was harvested 6 h after electroporation and sequenced as paired-end 50-cycle reads. Inhibitor-screen reads were mapped as 36-mers, and biological replicates were combined with the corresponding input library for peak calling.

Processed data

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Column dictionary · 16 definitions
element_id
Published STARR-seq peak identifier (for example, peak_7597).
chromosome
Human chromosome name from the hg19-aligned peak call.
start_hg19
Peak start coordinate as reported by the GEO table.
end_hg19
Peak end coordinate as reported by the GEO table.
interval_length_bp
Interval length in base pairs calculated as end - start + 1 from the reported coordinates.
peak_rank
Numeric rank parsed from the published peak identifier.
corrected_enrichment
Peak enrichment over the input library after the paper's correction; retained peaks are at least 4.
p_value
Peak-call p-value reported by GEO; zero denotes numerical underflow in the source result.
chromhmm_state
ChromHMM state overlapping the peak.
genomic_annotation
Genomic feature annotation for the peak, such as intergenic or intronic.
nearest_tss_ensembl75
Ensembl v75 gene identifier for the nearest annotated transcription start site.
nearest_gene
Gene symbol/name associated with the nearest Ensembl v75 transcription start site.
hela_s3_dhs_significant
1 if the peak had significant HeLa-S3 DHS enrichment in the published annotation, otherwise 0.
other_dhs_significant
1 if the peak had significant DHS enrichment in other cell types in the published annotation, otherwise 0.
enriched_transposable_element
1 if the peak was annotated as enriched for a transposable element, otherwise 0.
source_table
Filename of the deposited GEO processed table used to create this row.

Quality control

The paper shortlisted STARR-seq-over-input regions at P < 1×10^-5 and enrichment ≥3, called peaks at corrected enrichment ≥4, discarded peaks dominated by a single fragment (>50% of overlapping fragments), and removed peaks overlapping ENCODE blacklist regions. Reads were uniquely mapped to regular human chromosomes 1–22 and X. Package QC additionally required a valid positive-width hg19 interval, a unique peak ID, finite corrected enrichment and p-value, and p-value in [0,1]. All 9,613/9,613 source peak rows passed and no rows were removed; p-value 0 values are retained as reported underflow.

Curation notes

This is the inhibitor-treated genome-wide HeLa-S3 screen represented by GSM2683035 and GSM2683036, with ORI_geomewide_input_lib1/2 as input-library controls. The table is a peak-level enhancer activity resource rather than a barcode-level count matrix or an allele-contrast dataset. Coordinates and Ensembl annotations follow the study's hg19/Ensembl v75 processing; the preliminary 71,968-row shortlisted-region file is retained in raw_data but was not substituted for the final corrected-enrichment ≥4 peak calls.

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