Cancer Ecosystems Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.
School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Commun Biol. 2024 Oct 16;7(1):1340. doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-07043-2.
Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples are valuable but underutilized in single-cell omics research due to their low RNA quality. In this study, leveraging a recent advance in single-cell genomic technology, we introduce snPATHO-seq, a versatile method to derive high-quality single-nucleus transcriptomic data from FFPE samples. We benchmarked the performance of the snPATHO-seq workflow against existing 10x 3' and Flex assays designed for frozen or fresh samples and highlighted the consistency in snRNA-seq data produced by all workflows. The snPATHO-seq workflow also demonstrated high robustness when tested across a wide range of healthy and diseased FFPE tissue samples. When combined with FFPE spatial transcriptomic technologies such as FFPE Visium, the snPATHO-seq provides a multi-modal sampling approach for FFPE samples, allowing more comprehensive transcriptomic characterization.
福尔马林固定石蜡包埋(FFPE)样本在单细胞组学研究中具有重要价值,但由于其 RNA 质量较低,尚未得到充分利用。在这项研究中,我们利用单细胞基因组技术的最新进展,引入了 snPATHO-seq,这是一种从 FFPE 样本中获取高质量单细胞转录组数据的通用方法。我们对 snPATHO-seq 工作流程的性能进行了基准测试,该工作流程与专门针对冷冻或新鲜样本的现有 10x 3' 和 Flex 测定法进行了比较,并突出了所有工作流程产生的 snRNA-seq 数据的一致性。snPATHO-seq 工作流程在经过广泛的健康和患病 FFPE 组织样本测试时也表现出了很高的稳健性。当与 FFPE 空间转录组学技术(如 FFPE Visium)结合使用时,snPATHO-seq 为 FFPE 样本提供了一种多模式采样方法,从而能够更全面地进行转录组特征分析。