Department of Medicine I, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Commun Biol. 2021 Feb 1;4(1):153. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01661-w.
Single-cell multi-omics are powerful means to study cell-to-cell heterogeneity. Here, we present a single-tube, bisulfite-free method for the simultaneous, genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation and genetic variants in single cells: epigenomics and genomics of single cells analyzed by restriction (epi-gSCAR). By applying this method, we obtained DNA methylation measurements of up to 506,063 CpGs and up to 1,244,188 single-nucleotide variants from single acute myeloid leukemia-derived cells. We demonstrate that epi-gSCAR generates accurate and reproducible measurements of DNA methylation and allows to differentiate between cell lines based on the DNA methylation and genetic profiles.
单细胞多组学是研究细胞间异质性的有力手段。在这里,我们提出了一种单管、无亚硫酸氢盐的方法,用于在单细胞中同时进行全基因组范围内的 DNA 甲基化和遗传变异分析:单细胞限制分析的表观基因组学和基因组学(epi-gSCAR)。通过应用这种方法,我们从单个急性髓系白血病衍生细胞中获得了多达 506,063 个 CpG 和多达 1,244,188 个单核苷酸变异的 DNA 甲基化测量值。我们证明 epi-gSCAR 可以生成准确和可重复的 DNA 甲基化测量值,并允许根据 DNA 甲基化和遗传特征区分细胞系。