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Massively multiplex chemical transcriptomics at single-cell resolution

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Srivatsan, Sanjay R., McFaline-Figueroa, José L., Ramani, Vijay, Saunders, Lauren, Cao, Junyue, Packer, Jonathan, Pliner, Hannah A., Jackson, Dana L. +6 more·2020·Science

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Single-cell chemical transcriptomics: Single-cell transcriptomic technologies have emerged as powerful tools to explore cellular heterogeneity at the resolution of individual cells. Srivatsan et al. now add another layer of information and complexity by combining single-cell transcriptomics with oligo hashing and small molecule screening in a method called sci-Plex. Because screening many chemical compounds requires the ability to profile many cells, and because screens perturb cells in many different ways, the authors demonstrate the effects of 188 compounds in three cancer lines. The sci-Plex method can capture gene expression profiles from thousands of experimental conditions in a single experiment. Science , this issue p. 45

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  • Measurements can be coupled with systematic perturbations.

    “along with the ability to couple these measurements with systematic perturbations.27–29”
  • High-throughput perturbation screens based on RNA-seq, optical pooled screens (OPS), or other technologies offer a rich resource through which the AIVC can be trained to predict perturbation effects.

    “Here, high-throughput perturbation screens—based on RNA-seq,28,83,90 optical pooled screens (OPS),29,39,91 or other technologies—offer a rich resource through which the AIVC can be trained to predict these effects.”
  • The most extensive drug dataset is sci-Plex 3, which includes 188 drugs tested across three cell lines; 107 of those perturbations had significant effects on cell states according to E-test analysis.

    “The most extensive drug dataset is sci-Plex 3, which includes 188 drugs tested across three cell lines52; 107 of those perturbations had significant effects on cell states according to E-test analysis (Supplementary Table 3).”

    From scPerturb: harmonized single-cell perturbation data (2024) · cites this paper as [52]

  • Acetyl-CoA precursors can be considered confounders.

    “As HDAC inhibitors act partly through the deprivation of acetyl-CoA, we expect that the relative abundance of acetyl-CoA precursors within a cell would modulate the effect of HDAC inhibitor exposure, and acetyl-CoA precursors can be considered confounders8 (Fig. 3e).”
  • Compounds with similar putative mechanisms of action are similar in CPA latent space for a large set of major mechanisms; epigenetic, tyrosine kinase signaling, and protein formation compounds are clustered together by the model.

    “This holds for a large set of major mechanisms: we find that epigenetic, tyrosine kinase signaling, and protein formation compounds are clustered together by the model, which suggests the effectiveness of drugs with these mechanisms on these three cancer cell lines which is in line with the findings in the original publication (Srivatsan et al, 2020).”

    From Predicting cellular responses to complex perturbations in high‐throughput screens (2023) · cites this paper as Srivatsan et al, 2020

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Srivatsan, S. R., McFaline-Figueroa, J. L., Ramani, V., Saunders, L., Cao, J., Packer, J., Pliner, H. A., Jackson, D. L., Daza, R. M., Christiansen, L., Zhang, F., Steemers, F., Shendure, J., & Trapnell, C.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • Illumina (United States) (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
  • Srivatsan, Sanjay R.
  • Ramani, Vijay
  • Shendure, Jay
  • Trapnell, Cole
Venue
Science
Published
2020-01-03
Volume
367
Issue
6473
Pages
45-51
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2993905360
Cited by
401
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 76 · 2025: 78 · 2024: 69 · 2023: 66 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 20
FWCI
9.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (DGE-1258485)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (DP1HG007811, R01HG006283)
  • W.M. Keck Foundation
  • Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD088158)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Keywords
chemical screen, single-cell transcriptomics, intercellular heterogeneity, cancer cell lines, histone deacetylase inhibitors, acetate, chromatin, off-target effects
MeSH terms
A549 Cells, RNA-Seq, Acetates, Cell Nucleus, Chromatin, Humans, Neoplasms, K562 Cells, Genomics, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, High-Throughput Screening Assays, Single-Cell Analysis, Transcriptome, MCF-7 Cells

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