用于单细胞分辨率多模态染色质分析的纳米切割与标记技术。

Nano-CUT&Tag for multimodal chromatin profiling at single-cell resolution.

作者信息

Bárcenas-Walls José Ramón, Ansaloni Federico, Hervé Bastien, Strandback Emilia, Nyman Tomas, Castelo-Branco Gonçalo, Bartošovič Marek

机构信息

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

出版信息

Nat Protoc. 2024 Mar;19(3):791-830. doi: 10.1038/s41596-023-00932-6. Epub 2023 Dec 21.

Abstract

The ability to comprehensively analyze the chromatin state with single-cell resolution is crucial for understanding gene regulatory principles in heterogenous tissues or during development. Recently, we developed a nanobody-based single-cell CUT&Tag (nano-CT) protocol to simultaneously profile three epigenetic modalities-two histone marks and open chromatin state-from the same single cell. Nano-CT implements a new set of secondary nanobody-Tn5 fusion proteins to direct barcoded tagmentation by Tn5 transposase to genomic targets labeled by primary antibodies raised in different species. Such nanobody-Tn5 fusion proteins are currently not commercially available, and their in-house production and purification can be completed in 3-4 d by following our detailed protocol. The single-cell indexing in nano-CT is performed on a commercially available platform, making it widely accessible to the community. In comparison to other multimodal methods, nano-CT stands out in data complexity, low sample requirements and the flexibility to choose two of the three modalities. In addition, nano-CT works efficiently with fresh brain samples, generating multimodal epigenomic profiles for thousands of brain cells at single-cell resolution. The nano-CT protocol can be completed in just 3 d by users with basic skills in standard molecular biology and bioinformatics, although previous experience with single-cell assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (scATAC-seq) is beneficial for more in-depth data analysis. As a multimodal assay, nano-CT holds immense potential to reveal interactions of various chromatin modalities, to explore epigenetic heterogeneity and to increase our understanding of the role and interplay that chromatin dynamics has in cellular development.

摘要

以单细胞分辨率全面分析染色质状态的能力对于理解异质组织或发育过程中的基因调控原理至关重要。最近,我们开发了一种基于纳米抗体的单细胞CUT&Tag(nano-CT)方案,以同时从同一个单细胞中分析三种表观遗传模式——两种组蛋白标记和开放染色质状态。Nano-CT采用了一组新的二级纳米抗体-Tn5融合蛋白,通过Tn5转座酶将条形码标签连接到由不同物种产生的一抗标记的基因组靶点上。这种纳米抗体-Tn5融合蛋白目前尚无商业供应,按照我们的详细方案,其内部生产和纯化可在3-4天内完成。Nano-CT中的单细胞索引在一个商业可用平台上进行,使该方法在科学界广泛可用。与其他多模态方法相比,Nano-CT在数据复杂性、低样本需求以及从三种模式中选择两种模式的灵活性方面表现突出。此外,Nano-CT对新鲜脑样本有效,能够以单细胞分辨率生成数千个脑细胞的多模态表观基因组图谱。具有标准分子生物学和生物信息学基本技能的用户仅需3天即可完成Nano-CT方案,不过此前使用测序进行转座酶可及染色质单细胞分析(scATAC-seq)的经验有助于进行更深入的数据分析。作为一种多模态分析方法,Nano-CT在揭示各种染色质模式的相互作用、探索表观遗传异质性以及加深我们对染色质动力学在细胞发育中的作用和相互作用的理解方面具有巨大潜力。

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