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Profiling the genetic determinants of chromatin accessibility with scalable single-cell CRISPR screens

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Liscovitch-Brauer, Noa, Montalbano, Antonino, Deng, Jiale, Méndez-Mancilla, Alejandro, Wessels, Hans-Hermann, Moss, Nicholas G., Kung, Chia-Yu, Sookdeo, Akash, Guo, Xinyi, Geller, Evan, Jaini, Suma, Smibert, Peter, Sanjana, Neville E.·2021·Nature Biotechnology

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Abstract

CRISPR screens have been used to connect genetic perturbations with changes in gene expression and phenotypes. Here we describe a CRISPR-based, single-cell combinatorial indexing assay for transposase-accessible chromatin (CRISPR-sciATAC) to link genetic perturbations to genome-wide chromatin accessibility in a large number of cells. In human myelogenous leukemia cells, we apply CRISPR-sciATAC to target 105 chromatin-related genes, generating chromatin accessibility data for ~30,000 single cells. We correlate the loss of specific chromatin remodelers with changes in accessibility globally and at the binding sites of individual transcription factors (TFs). For example, we show that loss of the H3K27 methyltransferase EZH2 increases accessibility at heterochromatic regions involved in embryonic development and triggers expression of genes in the HOXA and HOXD clusters. At a subset of regulatory sites, we also analyze changes in nucleosome spacing following the loss of chromatin remodelers. CRISPR-sciATAC is a high-throughput, single-cell method for studying the effect of genetic perturbations on chromatin in normal and disease states.

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    Chromatin accessibility controls gene expression and is dynamically regulated during differentiation and homeostasis.

    “Chromatin accessibility orchestrates cis- and trans-regulatory interactions to control gene expression and is dynamically regulated in cell differentiation and homeostasis.”
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    CRISPR nuclease-induced loss of a chromatin modifier in K562 cells models loss-of-function mutations in cancer.

    “Taken together, these results suggest that loss-of-function mutations in EZH2 lead to aberrant expression of genes from HOXA and HOXD clusters.”
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    The presence of a gRNA in a cell indicates functional perturbation of the targeted gene.

    “CRISPR-sciATAC does not depend critically on any specific gRNA but rather looks for consistent effects between gRNAs.”
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    ENCODE ChIP-seq data from K562 accurately represents the chromatin marks in the studied K562 cells.

    “We examined how loss of these chromatin modifiers impacts accessibility within known chromatin marks (primarily histone post-translation modifications) using ENCODE ChIP-seq data from K562 cells”
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    Non-targeting gRNAs have no effect on chromatin accessibility.

    “For cells receiving a non-targeting gRNA, we find that 75 cells correlate well with the respective pseudo-bulk populations”
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Authors
Liscovitch-Brauer, N., Montalbano, A., Deng, J., Méndez-Mancilla, A., Wessels, H.-H., Moss, N. G., Kung, C.-Y., Sookdeo, A., Guo, X., Geller, E., Jaini, S., Smibert, P., & Sanjana, N. E.
Affiliations
New York Genome Center (US)
Corresponding author
Sanjana, Neville E.
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2021-04-29
Volume
39
Issue
10
Pages
1270-1277
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W3158694246
Cited by
107
References
52
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2026: 10 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 5
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5.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Human Frontier Science Program (LT000672/2019-L)
  • European Molecular Biology Organization (ALTF 826-2018)
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (DP2HG010099, R01CA218668)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Keywords
chromatin accessibility, single-cell CRISPR screens, chromatin remodelers, EZH2, H3K27 methylation, heterochromatin, transcription factor binding sites, nucleosome spacing, myeloid leukemia
MeSH terms
RNA-Seq, Binding Sites, Chromatin, Humans, Leukemia, Myeloid, Nucleosomes, Transcription Factors, Transposases, Gene Expression Profiling, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional, Epigenomics, Single-Cell Analysis, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

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