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Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals principles of regulatory variation

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Cell-to-cell variation is a universal feature of life that affects a wide range of biological phenomena, from developmental plasticity to tumour heterogeneity. Although recent advances have improved our ability to document cellular phenotypic variation, the fundamental mechanisms that generate variability from identical DNA sequences remain elusive. Here we reveal the landscape and principles of mammalian DNA regulatory variation by developing a robust method for mapping the accessible genome of individual cells by assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq) integrated into a programmable microfluidics platform. Single-cell ATAC-seq (scATAC-seq) maps from hundreds of single cells in aggregate closely resemble accessibility profiles from tens of millions of cells and provide insights into cell-to-cell variation. Accessibility variance is systematically associated with specific trans-factors and cis-elements, and we discover combinations of trans-factors associated with either induction or suppression of cell-to-cell variability. We further identify sets of trans-factors associated with cell-type-specific accessibility variance across eight cell types. Targeted perturbations of cell cycle or transcription factor signalling evoke stimulus-specific changes in this observed variability. The pattern of accessibility variation in cis across the genome recapitulates chromosome compartments de novo, linking single-cell accessibility variation to three-dimensional genome organization. Single-cell analysis of DNA accessibility provides new insight into cellular variation of the 'regulome'.

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Authors
Buenrostro, J. D., Wu, B., Litzenburger, U. M., Ruff, D., Gonzales, M. L., Snyder, M. P., Chang, H. Y., & Greenleaf, W. J.
Affiliations
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • Standard BioTools (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
  • Chang, Howard Y.
  • Greenleaf, William J.
Venue
Nature
Published
2015-06-17
Volume
523
Issue
7561
Pages
486-490
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W1602702667
Cited by
2,308
References
31
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FWCI
54.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (P50HG007735, U54HG004558, 5U54HG00455805, T32HG000044)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U19AI057266)
  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (UH2AR067676)
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
single-cell chromatin accessibility, single-cell ATAC-seq, cell-to-cell variability, transcription factors, cis-regulatory elements, 3D genome organization, regulome, microfluidics, cell cycle
MeSH terms
Animals, Cell Compartmentation, Cell Cycle, Cell Line, Cells, Chromatin, DNA, Humans, Transcription Factors, Signal Transduction, Genome, Human, Transposases, Microfluidics, Epigenesis, Genetic, Epigenomics, Single-Cell Analysis

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