Project description:Here we present a new version of the DamID method that allows efficient capturing of protein-DNA interactions and mRNA output from the same single cell. With this protocol, we have measured the direct impact of spatial genome positioning and chromatin accessibility on mRNA output in mouse embryonic stem cells
Project description:Here we present a new version of the DamID method that allows efficient capturing of protein-DNA interactions and mRNA output from the same single cell. With this protocol, we have measured the direct impact of spatial genome positioning and chromatin accessibility on mRNA output in human haploid cells
Project description:Protein-DNA interactions are critical to the regulation of gene expression, but it remains challenging to define how cell-to-cell heterogeneity in protein-DNA binding influences gene expression variability. Here we report a method for the simultaneous quantification of protein-DNA contacts by combining single-cell DNA adenine methyltransferase identification (DamID) with messenger RNA sequencing of the same cell (scDam&T-seq). We apply scDam&T-seq to reveal how genome-lamina contacts or chromatin accessibility correlate with gene expression in individual cells. Furthermore, we provide single-cell genome-wide interaction data on a polycomb-group protein, RING1B, and the associated transcriptome. Our results show that scDam&T-seq is sensitive enough to distinguish mouse embryonic stem cells cultured under different conditions and their different chromatin landscapes. Our method will enable the analysis of protein-mediated mechanisms that regulate cell-type-specific transcriptional programs in heterogeneous tissues.
