培养细胞中单细胞水平蛋白质和mRNA的三维重建与定量分析
Three-dimensional Reconstruction and Quantification of Proteins and mRNAs at the Single-cell Level in Cultured Cells.
作者信息
Jiang Xueer, Brust-Mascher Ingrid, Jao Li-En
机构信息
Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
出版信息
Bio Protoc. 2019 Aug 20;9(16):e3330. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3330.
Gene expression is often regulated by the abundance, localization, and translation of mRNAs in both space and time. Being able to visualize mRNAs and protein products in single cells is critical to understand this regulatory process. The development of single-molecule RNA fluorescence hybridization (smFISH) allows the detection of individual RNA molecules at the single-molecule and single-cell levels. When combined with immunofluorescence (IF), both mRNAs and proteins in individual cells can be analyzed simultaneously. However, a precise and streamlined quantification method for the smFISH and IF combined dataset is scarce, as existing workflows mostly focus on quantifying the smFISH data alone. Here we detail a method for performing sequential IF and smFISH in cultured cells (as described in Sepulveda , 2018 ) and the subsequent statistical analysis of the smFISH and IF data via three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction in a semi-automatic image processing workflow. Although our method is based on analyzing centrosomally enriched mRNAs and proteins, the workflow can be readily adapted for performing and analyzing smFISH and IF data in other biological contexts.
基因表达通常在空间和时间上受mRNA的丰度、定位及翻译的调控。能够在单细胞水平可视化mRNA和蛋白质产物对于理解这一调控过程至关重要。单分子RNA荧光杂交(smFISH)技术的发展使得在单分子和单细胞水平检测单个RNA分子成为可能。当与免疫荧光(IF)结合时,单个细胞中的mRNA和蛋白质均可同时进行分析。然而,针对smFISH和IF联合数据集的精确且简化的定量方法却很匮乏,因为现有的工作流程大多仅专注于对smFISH数据进行定量。在此,我们详细介绍一种在培养细胞中进行顺序IF和smFISH的方法(如Sepulveda在2018年所述),以及随后在半自动图像处理工作流程中通过三维(3D)重建对smFISH和IF数据进行统计分析的方法。尽管我们的方法基于分析中心体富集的mRNA和蛋白质,但该工作流程可轻松适用于在其他生物学背景下进行和分析smFISH及IF数据。