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Chromatin Potential Identified by Shared Single-Cell Profiling of RNA and Chromatin

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Ma, Sai, Zhang, Bing, LaFave, Lindsay M., Earl, Andrew S., Chiang, Zachary, Hu, Yan, Ding, Jiarui, Brack, Alison +7 more·2020·Cell

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Cell differentiation and function are regulated across multiple layers of gene regulation, including modulation of gene expression by changes in chromatin accessibility. However, differentiation is an asynchronous process precluding a temporal understanding of regulatory events leading to cell fate commitment. Here we developed simultaneous high-throughput ATAC and RNA expression with sequencing (SHARE-seq), a highly scalable approach for measurement of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in the same single cell, applicable to different tissues. Using 34,774 joint profiles from mouse skin, we develop a computational strategy to identify cis-regulatory interactions and define domains of regulatory chromatin (DORCs) that significantly overlap with super-enhancers. During lineage commitment, chromatin accessibility at DORCs precedes gene expression, suggesting that changes in chromatin accessibility may prime cells for lineage commitment. We computationally infer chromatin potential as a quantitative measure of chromatin lineage-priming and use it to predict cell fate outcomes. SHARE-seq is an extensible platform to study regulatory circuitry across diverse cells in tissues.

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  • Milo may also be useful for single-cell assays beyond scRNA-seq, including multi-omic assays.

    “Milo may also be applicable to single-cell assays other than scRNA-seq, including multi-omic assays [35–39].”
  • SHARE-seq uses several rounds of hybridization blocking to label mRNA and chromatin fragments in single cells.

    “Increasing throughput, SHARE-seq was built based on SPLiT-seq and Paired-seq and uses several rounds of hybridization blocking to label mRNA and chromatin fragments in single cells60.”
  • Paired experimental methods are easier computationally because modalities can be tethered to a single cell or spot, but sequencing capacity of each modality decreases overall sample size.

    “By contrast, paired experimental methods (10x Multiome, SHARE-seq60, DBiT-seq123, SNARE-seq57, CITE-seq68 and others) are easier to work with computationally as different modalities can be tethered to a single cell or a single spot; however, the sequencing capacity of each modality causes the overall sample size to decrease.”
  • Computational methods can integrate data from multiple omics but cannot readily uncover mechanistic links between different omics layers.

    “Although computational methods can integrate data from multiple omics10, they cannot readily uncover the mechanistic links between different omics layers.”
  • The high accessibility but modest or low RNA expression of Pax6, Sox2 and Myt1l may indicate lineage priming of these genes in embryonic brain development.

    “which may indicate lineage priming10,27 of these genes in embryonic brain development.”

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Ma, S., Zhang, B., LaFave, L. M., Earl, A. S., Chiang, Z., Hu, Y., Ding, J., Brack, A., Kartha, V. K., Tay, T., Law, T., Lareau, C., Hsu, Y.-C., Regev, A., & Buenrostro, J. D.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Regev, Aviv
  • Buenrostro, Jason D.
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-11
Volume
183
Issue
4
Pages
1103-1116.e20
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3093858607
Cited by
1,146
References
95
Citations by year
2026: 223 · 2025: 224 · 2024: 215 · 2023: 183 · 2022: 175 · 2021: 107 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 2 · 2013: 1
FWCI
39.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
  • Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation
  • Allen Institute
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
Keywords
chromatin accessibility, single-cell multi-omics, cis-regulatory interactions, super-enhancers, cell fate prediction, lineage commitment, mouse skin, cell differentiation
MeSH terms
Animals, Cell Differentiation, Cell Line, Chromatin, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Histones, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Protein Processing, Post-Translational, RNA, Cell Lineage, Gene Expression Profiling, Single-Cell Analysis

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