Experiment / E1LH4XRNMPromoter / Core Promoter MPRA

Four-configuration plasmid MPRA of pancreatic-islet TSS fragments

Massively parallel reporter assay reveals promoter-, position-, and strand-specific effects in transcription start sites

A pooled episomal MPRA tested 1,305 human pancreatic-islet CAGE-derived 198-bp transcription-start-site fragments in four reporter configurations: human INS or synthetic SCP1 promoter, each with the insert upstream or downstream of the promoter. The library was electroporated into INS-1 832/13 rat insulinoma cells; three biological RNA replicates and one plasmid-DNA input were quantified by barcode sequencing.

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Perturbation & assay details

Basal / Untreated

Episomal STARR-seq-backbone plasmids carried GFP and 16-bp random barcodes. Each 198-bp forward-strand insert was tested with the human INS promoter or SCP1 promoter in upstream and downstream positions; the inserts were derived from CAGE tag clusters identified across 71 human pancreatic-islet samples. RNA barcode abundance was compared with plasmid-DNA barcode abundance using MPRAnalyze, with the assay performed 24 hours after electroporation.

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Column dictionary · 58 definitions
element_id
GEO refname identifying the tested TSS fragment, encoded as TCs_chr_start_end.
chrom
Chromosome from the hg19 fragment coordinate.
start
0-based fragment start coordinate from GEO refname.
end
0-based half-open fragment end coordinate from GEO refname.
fragment_length_bp
Fragment length in base pairs, calculated as end minus start; expected to be 198.
reference_genome
Reference genome assembly used for the deposited coordinates (hg19).
ins_upstream_barcode_count
Number of retained barcodes for the INS-promoter upstream configuration.
ins_upstream_dna_count
Sum of plasmid-input DNA counts across retained INS-upstream barcodes.
ins_upstream_rna_rep1_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 1 for INS-upstream barcodes.
ins_upstream_rna_rep2_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 2 for INS-upstream barcodes.
ins_upstream_rna_rep3_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 3 for INS-upstream barcodes.
ins_upstream_activity_log2_rep1
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for INS-upstream in RNA replicate 1; count pseudocount 1.
ins_upstream_activity_log2_rep2
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for INS-upstream in RNA replicate 2; count pseudocount 1.
ins_upstream_activity_log2_rep3
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for INS-upstream in RNA replicate 3; count pseudocount 1.
ins_upstream_activity_log2_mean
Mean of the three INS-upstream replicate activity scores.
ins_upstream_activity_log2_sd
Sample standard deviation of the three INS-upstream replicate activity scores.
ins_upstream_activity_log2_se
Standard error of the three INS-upstream replicate activity scores.
ins_upstream_status_summary
Semicolon-delimited counts of GEO status labels among retained INS-upstream barcodes; not used for filtering.
ins_downstream_barcode_count
Number of retained barcodes for the INS-promoter downstream configuration.
ins_downstream_dna_count
Sum of plasmid-input DNA counts across retained INS-downstream barcodes.
ins_downstream_rna_rep1_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 1 for INS-downstream barcodes.
ins_downstream_rna_rep2_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 2 for INS-downstream barcodes.
ins_downstream_rna_rep3_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 3 for INS-downstream barcodes.
ins_downstream_activity_log2_rep1
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for INS-downstream in RNA replicate 1; count pseudocount 1.
ins_downstream_activity_log2_rep2
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for INS-downstream in RNA replicate 2; count pseudocount 1.
ins_downstream_activity_log2_rep3
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for INS-downstream in RNA replicate 3; count pseudocount 1.
ins_downstream_activity_log2_mean
Mean of the three INS-downstream replicate activity scores.
ins_downstream_activity_log2_sd
Sample standard deviation of the three INS-downstream replicate activity scores.
ins_downstream_activity_log2_se
Standard error of the three INS-downstream replicate activity scores.
ins_downstream_status_summary
Semicolon-delimited counts of GEO status labels among retained INS-downstream barcodes; not used for filtering.
scp1_upstream_barcode_count
Number of retained barcodes for the SCP1-promoter upstream configuration.
scp1_upstream_dna_count
Sum of plasmid-input DNA counts across retained SCP1-upstream barcodes.
scp1_upstream_rna_rep1_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 1 for SCP1-upstream barcodes.
scp1_upstream_rna_rep2_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 2 for SCP1-upstream barcodes.
scp1_upstream_rna_rep3_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 3 for SCP1-upstream barcodes.
scp1_upstream_activity_log2_rep1
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for SCP1-upstream in RNA replicate 1; count pseudocount 1.
scp1_upstream_activity_log2_rep2
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for SCP1-upstream in RNA replicate 2; count pseudocount 1.
scp1_upstream_activity_log2_rep3
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for SCP1-upstream in RNA replicate 3; count pseudocount 1.
scp1_upstream_activity_log2_mean
Mean of the three SCP1-upstream replicate activity scores.
scp1_upstream_activity_log2_sd
Sample standard deviation of the three SCP1-upstream replicate activity scores.
scp1_upstream_activity_log2_se
Standard error of the three SCP1-upstream replicate activity scores.
scp1_upstream_status_summary
Semicolon-delimited counts of GEO status labels among retained SCP1-upstream barcodes; not used for filtering.
scp1_downstream_barcode_count
Number of retained barcodes for the SCP1-promoter downstream configuration.
scp1_downstream_dna_count
Sum of plasmid-input DNA counts across retained SCP1-downstream barcodes.
scp1_downstream_rna_rep1_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 1 for SCP1-downstream barcodes.
scp1_downstream_rna_rep2_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 2 for SCP1-downstream barcodes.
scp1_downstream_rna_rep3_count
Sum of RNA barcode counts in biological replicate 3 for SCP1-downstream barcodes.
scp1_downstream_activity_log2_rep1
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for SCP1-downstream in RNA replicate 1; count pseudocount 1.
scp1_downstream_activity_log2_rep2
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for SCP1-downstream in RNA replicate 2; count pseudocount 1.
scp1_downstream_activity_log2_rep3
Library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) activity for SCP1-downstream in RNA replicate 3; count pseudocount 1.
scp1_downstream_activity_log2_mean
Mean of the three SCP1-downstream replicate activity scores.
scp1_downstream_activity_log2_sd
Sample standard deviation of the three SCP1-downstream replicate activity scores.
scp1_downstream_activity_log2_se
Standard error of the three SCP1-downstream replicate activity scores.
scp1_downstream_status_summary
Semicolon-delimited counts of GEO status labels among retained SCP1-downstream barcodes; not used for filtering.
ins_position_effect_log2_up_minus_down
INS promoter position contrast: INS-upstream mean activity minus INS-downstream mean activity.
scp1_position_effect_log2_up_minus_down
SCP1 promoter position contrast: SCP1-upstream mean activity minus SCP1-downstream mean activity.
upstream_promoter_effect_log2_scp1_minus_ins
Upstream promoter contrast: SCP1-upstream mean activity minus INS-upstream mean activity.
downstream_promoter_effect_log2_scp1_minus_ins
Downstream promoter contrast: SCP1-downstream mean activity minus INS-downstream mean activity.

Quality control

Used the GEO-provided library_counts.tsv file. Retained rows with passes=TRUE and DNA count at least the row-level minDNA threshold (10); all 57,972 deposited barcode rows met both criteria. Aggregated retained barcodes by fragment and configuration; all 5,220 fragment-configuration groups had at least two barcodes. No status-label filter was applied because the GEO status values (pass, no_variants_input, apparently_wt_no_passing_vars) are retained library annotations rather than a documented assay-QC flag. Replicate activity is library-size-normalized log2(RNA/DNA) from aggregate counts with a count pseudocount of 1; all retained count fields were numeric and nonnegative.

Curation notes

The manuscript's Data Availability section names GSE279057, but GEO GSE279057 is a distinct larger Kyono metabolic-variant library. GEO GSE322788 has the exact paper title, exactly 1,305 unique refnames, all four expected configurations, and the library_counts file used here, so it was selected as the matching data source. The deposited count-file labels INS1_promoter and SCP1_promoter were mapped to INS and SCP1; dwn was mapped to downstream and UP to upstream. The processed table contains no insert sequences, CAGE-strand labels, ChromHMM states, or ATAC-seq overlaps because these were not included in GSE322788's deposited count file.

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