Experiment / E31X2XCEUEpisomal Plasmid MPRA

HepG2 MPRA — untreated control

Genome-wide census of ATF4 binding sites and functional profiling of trait-associated genetic variants overlapping ATF4 binding motifs

An episomal barcode MPRA tested reference and alternative alleles of 581 trait-associated SNP-containing 175-bp sequences in HepG2 cells without stress treatment. Five independent transfections performed on separate days were analyzed by poly(A)+ RNA barcode sequencing and MPRAnalyze.

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Perturbation & assay details

Basal / Untreated (vehicle control)

The pMPRA1/pMPRAdonor2 plasmid configuration placed each 175-nt query sequence (SNP centered with 87-bp flanks) upstream of a minimal promoter and luc2 ORF, with a unique 10-nt barcode in the reporter transcript. Each allele was synthesized with six barcodes; 6×10^6 HepG2 cells per replicate were transfected with 22 µg library using Lipofectamine 3000. Poly(A)+ RNA and plasmid-input DNA were sequenced on an Illumina NextSeq 500; the RNA read used a 12-nt UMI for PCR-duplicate correction.

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Column dictionary · 44 definitions
element_id
Package identifier for the tested SNP element.
variant_id
dbSNP rsID of the assayed variant.
variant_key
Author-provided GRCh38 variant and cloning-strand label.
chromosome
GRCh38 chromosome name.
position_grch38
1-based GRCh38 SNP coordinate.
ref_allele
Reference allele in the GRCh38 variant label.
alt_allele
Alternative allele in the GRCh38 variant label.
cloned_strand
Sequence orientation used for cloning: positive or negative genomic strand.
ref_query_sequence_175bp
175-bp reference-allele query sequence used in the MPRA.
alt_query_sequence_175bp
175-bp alternative-allele query sequence used in the MPRA.
ref_qc_barcode_count
Number of reference-allele barcodes passing the published source-QC filter.
alt_qc_barcode_count
Number of alternative-allele barcodes passing the published source-QC filter.
ref_qc_barcodes
Pipe-delimited 10-nt reference barcode sequences retained by source QC.
alt_qc_barcodes
Pipe-delimited 10-nt alternative barcode sequences retained by source QC.
ref_input_count_mean
Mean raw DNA-input count across retained reference barcodes and four input libraries.
alt_input_count_mean
Mean raw DNA-input count across retained alternative barcodes and four input libraries.
ref_rna_count_mean
Mean raw RNA count across retained reference barcodes and the five untreated RNA libraries.
alt_rna_count_mean
Mean raw RNA count across retained alternative barcodes and the five untreated RNA libraries.
ref_activity_rep1
Author-normalized reference reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 1.
ref_activity_rep2
Author-normalized reference reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 2.
ref_activity_rep3
Author-normalized reference reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 3.
ref_activity_rep4
Author-normalized reference reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 4.
ref_activity_rep5
Author-normalized reference reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 5.
alt_activity_rep1
Author-normalized alternative reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 1.
alt_activity_rep2
Author-normalized alternative reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 2.
alt_activity_rep3
Author-normalized alternative reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 3.
alt_activity_rep4
Author-normalized alternative reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 4.
alt_activity_rep5
Author-normalized alternative reporter activity for untreated independent replicate 5.
ref_activity_mean
Mean of the five untreated reference reporter-activity values.
alt_activity_mean
Mean of the five untreated alternative reporter-activity values.
mpranalyze_ref_alt_log2fc
MPRAnalyze REF/ALT allelic log2 fold change; positive values indicate greater reference activity.
mpranalyze_model_logfc
MPRAnalyze model log fold-change estimate for the allelic comparison.
mpranalyze_statistic
MPRAnalyze allelic-effect test statistic.
mpranalyze_pval
Unadjusted MPRAnalyze allelic-effect p-value.
mpranalyze_fdr
Benjamini-Hochberg FDR for the MPRAnalyze allelic-effect test.
mpra_allelic_effect_significant
Author’s yes/no flag for MPRAnalyze FDR < 0.05 in untreated cells.
higher_activity_allele
Allele with higher activity without a p-value cutoff, as reported by the authors.
motif_consequence
Author-predicted ATF4-associated motif consequence of the alternative allele.
motif_directionally_concordant
Author’s no-p-value-cutoff indicator that MPRA direction agrees with motif prediction.
motif_and_mpra_direction_concordance_fdr05
Author’s motif/MPRA direction-concordance result after the FDR < 0.05 cutoff.
genomic_location
Author annotation as promoter or distal; promoter is TSS ±1 kb.
tss_strand
Strand of the nearby TSS reported by the authors, when present.
tss_gene
Nearby TSS gene reported by the authors, when present.
tss_distance_bp
Distance in bp to the reported nearby TSS, when present.

Quality control

The authors trimmed reads to 35 bp, mapped to barcode-plus-constant synthetic contigs with Bowtie allowing one mismatch, discarded multimappers, deduplicated UMIs with UMI-tools, and normalized counts to sequencing depth, DNA input, and median scramble-control activity. Barcodes were retained when they had ≥5 reads in every one of four DNA-input replicates and, in at least one treatment, ≥5 reads in every one of five RNA replicates; MPRAnalyze FDR < 0.05 defined a significant allelic effect. For this package, the same source-QC filter was applied to the GEO matrix and both REF and ALT constructs were required to have at least one retained barcode; all 581 variant rows passed. The downloaded matrix yields 6,985 retained barcodes, while the article’s processing paragraph reports 6,983 and its S7 caption reports 6,985.

Curation notes

The table is variant-level rather than a control library table and combines S13 construct sequences, S14 normalized activity, S15 MPRAnalyze results, and GEO barcode counts. The source filter is condition-agnostic (a barcode passes if it meets the RNA threshold in either condition), matching the paper’s published processing; all 581 variants retain both alleles in this experiment. HepG2 is represented by Cellosaurus CVCL:0027 (Hep-G2).

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