Could you please recommend articles that describe in detail (or at least apply) reporter gene assays for in vitro studding functional effects of CpG methylation? Does anyone have any experience with this kind of experiments?
The best one I've used is pCpGl luciferase reporter assay. It uses a CpG-less plasmid, meaning anything you clone into it and methylate with SssI allows you to ONLY study your promoter of interest. It's also a pretty straightforward luciferase assay and is very robust. See attached paper!
Article Functional Analysis of Promoter CPG-Methylation using a CpG-...