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Multiplex single-cell profiling of chromatin accessibility by combinatorial cellular indexing

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Cusanovich, Darren A., Daza, Riza, Adey, Andrew, Pliner, Hannah A., Christiansen, Lena, Gunderson, Kevin L., Steemers, Frank J., Trapnell, Cole +1 more·2015·Science

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Chromatin state and the single cell: Identifying the chromatin state of any single cell, which may or may not have a different function or represent different stages relative to others collected within any single culture, experiment, or tissue, has been challenging. Cusanovitch et al. skirted previously identified technological limitations to identify regions of accessible chromatin at single-cell resolution. Combinatorial cellular indexing, a strategy for multiplex barcoding of thousands of single cells per experiment, was successfully used to investigate the genome-wide chromatin accessibility landscape in each of over 15,000 single cells. Science , this issue p. 910

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  • Two methods of scATAC-seq developed in 2015 enabled exploration of chromatin accessibility at the single-cell level.

    “Two methods of scATAC-seq were developed in 2015, which enabled the exploration of chromatin accessibility at the single-cell level.”

    From Single-cell sequencing to multi-omics: technologies and applications (2024) · cites this paper as [112]

    The paper’s Abstract describes integrating combinatorial cellular indexing with ATAC-seq to measure chromatin accessibility in single cells. It supports this 2015 method, but does not establish the claim that two methods were developed in 2015. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Single-cell ATAC-seq has enabled in vivo profiling of accessible chromatin at the scale of a whole organism.

    “For example, single-cell ATAC-seq has enabled the in vivo profiling of accessible chromatin at the scale of a whole organism82,83.160,161.”

    From Towards a comprehensive catalogue of validated and target-linked human enhancers (2020) · cites this paper as [82]

    The Abstract describes ATAC-seq-based chromatin accessibility profiling in more than 15,000 single cells. The experiments described in our copy use mixtures of cultured human and mouse cell lines, not in vivo profiling across a whole organism; the paper discusses broader tissue characterization only as a future possibility. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • New methods have recently emerged that overcome many key limitations of earlier technologies, including single-cell methods, higher-resolution 3C, MPRAs, and high-throughput CRISPR screens.

    “To this point, new methods have recently emerged that overcome many of the key limitations of earlier technologies. These include single-cell (‘sc’) methods to identify cell-type-specific open chromatin in complex tissues82,83; higher resolution chromosome conformation capture [G] methods to more finely map enhancer–promoter contacts84; MPRAs to dissect or trap enhancer activity on a reporter”
  • Other single-cell methods have been developed to measure single-cell DNA methylation and single-cell open chromatin using ATAC-seq.

    “Other single-cell methods have been developed to measure single-cell DNA methylation [182] and single-cell open chromatin using ATAC-seq [183, 184].”

    From A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis (2016) · cites this paper as [184]

  • There are two experimental methods to perform scATAC-seq: a microfluidic platform for physical isolation of single cells and combinatorial cellular indexing of sorted nuclei.

    “There are two experimental methods to perform scATAC-seq, either based on a microfluidic platform (Fluidigm C1) for physical isolation of single cells [58] or on combinatorial cellular indexing of sorted nuclei (sciATAC-seq) [59].”

    From Mapping gene regulatory networks from single-cell omics data (2018) · cites this paper as [59]

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Authors
Cusanovich, D. A., Daza, R., Adey, A., Pliner, H. A., Christiansen, L., Gunderson, K. L., Steemers, F. J., Trapnell, C., & Shendure, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Oregon Health & Science University (US)
  • Illumina (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Shendure, Jay
Venue
Science
Published
2015-05-22
Volume
348
Issue
6237
Pages
910-914
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W1492083415
Cited by
1,248
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 82 · 2025: 106 · 2024: 124 · 2023: 140 · 2022: 145 · 2021: 169 · 2020: 132 · 2019: 102 · 2018: 98 · 2017: 75 · 2016: 49 · 2015: 22 · 2014: 2
FWCI
35.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • NIH (1DP1HG007811)
  • Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
  • Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (DFS-#10-14)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Keywords
chromatin accessibility, single-cell epigenomics, cell clustering, Human Cell Atlas
MeSH terms
Chromatin, Humans, HL-60 Cells, Epigenesis, Genetic, HEK293 Cells, Single-Cell Analysis

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