RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 ISSAAC-seq enables sensitive and flexible multimodal profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in single cells
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2022.01.16.476488
DO 10.1101/2022.01.16.476488
A1 Wei Xu
A1 Weilong Yang
A1 Yunlong Zhang
A1 Yawen Chen
A1 Qian Zhang
A1 Xuefei Wang
A1 Kun Song
A1 Wenfei Jin
A1 Xi Chen
YR 2022
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/01/17/2022.01.16.476488.abstract
AB Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression from the same single cell/nucleus provides critical information about cell types in a tissue and cell states during a dynamic process. These emerging multi-omics techniques help the investigation of cell-type resolved gene regulatory mechanisms1–7. However, many methods are currently limited by low sensitivity, low throughput or complex workflow. Here, we developed in situ SHERRY after ATAC-seq (ISSAAC-seq), a highly sensitive and flexible single cell multi-omics method to interrogate chromatin accessibility and gene expression from the same single nucleus. We demonstrated that ISSAAC-seq is sensitive and provides high quality data with orders of magnitude more features than existing methods. Using the joint profiles from over 10,000 nuclei from the mouse cerebral cortex, we uncovered major and rare cell types and cell-type specific regulatory elements and identified heterogeneity at the chromatin level within established cell types defined by gene expression. Finally, we revealed distinct dynamics and relationships of gene expression and chromatin accessibility during an oligodendrocyte maturation trajectory.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.