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. 2021 Nov;16(11):4992-5029.
doi: 10.1038/s41596-021-00507-3. Epub 2021 Oct 14.

Scalable dual-omics profiling with single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and mRNA expression sequencing 2 (SNARE-seq2)

Nongluk Plongthongkum  1   2 , Dinh Diep  1 , Song Chen  1 , Blue B Lake  1 , Kun Zhang  3
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Scalable dual-omics profiling with single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and mRNA expression sequencing 2 (SNARE-seq2)

Nongluk Plongthongkum et al. Nat Protoc. 2021 Nov.

Abstract

Comprehensive characterization of cellular heterogeneity and the underlying regulatory landscapes of tissues and organs requires a highly robust and scalable method to acquire matched RNA and chromatin accessibility profiles on the same cells. Here, we describe a single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and mRNA expression sequencing 2 (SNARE-seq2) assay, implemented with cellular combinatorial indexing. This method involves tagmentation within permeabilized and fixed single-nucleus isolates to capture accessible chromatin (AC) regions, followed by the capture and reverse transcription of RNA transcripts. Through combinatorial split pool ligations, cDNA and AC within each single nucleus become appended with a common cell barcode combination. The captured cDNA and AC are then co-amplified before splitting and enrichment into single-nucleus RNA and single-nucleus AC sequencing libraries. This protocol is compatible with both nuclei and whole cells and can be completed in 3.5 d. SNARE-seq2 permits robust generation of high-quality, joint single-cell RNA and AC sequencing libraries from hundreds of thousands of single cells per experiment.

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