Project description:Methods derived from CUT&RUN and CUT&Tag enable genome-wide mapping of the localization of proteins on chromatin from as few as one cell. These and other mapping approaches focus on one protein at a time, preventing direct measurements of co-localization of different chromatin proteins in the same cells and requiring prioritization of targets where samples are limiting. Here we describe multi-CUT&Tag, an adaptation of CUT&Tag that overcomes these hurdles by using antibody-specific barcodes to simultaneously map multiple proteins in the same cells. Highly specific multi-CUT&Tag maps of histone marks and RNA Polymerase II uncovered sites of co-localization in the same cells, active and repressed genes, and candidate cis-regulatory elements. Single-cell multi-CUT&Tag profiling facilitated identification of distinct cell types from a mixed population and inference of cell type-specific gene expression. In sum, multi-CUT&Tag increases the “per cell” information content of epigenomic maps, facilitating direct analysis of the interplay of different proteins on chromatin.
Project description:We studied 38 multiple myeloma samples to discover mutations in ribosomal proteins. To this end, we ran a specifically designed targeted resequencing study to resequence the coding regions of all ribosomal proteins.
Project description:We established a novel epigenomic profiling method multi–target ChIL–seq, mtChIL-seq, which enables the detection of the DNA binding proteins and histone modifications simultaneously using a same sample.
Project description:Chromatin profiling at locus resolution uncovers gene regulatory features that define cell types and developmental trajectories, but it remains challenging to map and compare distinct chromatin-associated proteins within the same sample. Here we describe a scalable antibody barcoding approach for profiling multiple chromatin features simultaneously in the same individual cells, Multiple Target Identification by Tagmentation (MulTI-Tag). MulTI-Tag is optimized to retain high sensitivity and specificity of enrichment for multiple chromatin targets in the same assay. We use MulTI-Tag to resolve distinct cell types using multiple chromatin features on a commercial single-cell platform, and to distinguish unique, coordinated patterns of active and repressive element regulatory usage in the same individual cells. Multifactorial profiling has allowed us to detect novel associations between histone marks in single cells and holds promise for comprehensively characterizing cell-specific gene regulatory landscapes in development and disease.