Assessing the Influence of Selected Permeabilization Methods on Lymphocyte Single-Cell Multi-Omics
(1) Background: Single-cell multi-omics is a powerful method for the dissection and detection of complicated immunologic functions and synapses. However, most currently available technologies merge datasets of different omics from separate portions of the same sample to generate combined multi-omics...
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| description | (1) Background: Single-cell multi-omics is a powerful method for the dissection and detection of complicated immunologic functions and synapses. However, most currently available technologies merge datasets of different omics from separate portions of the same sample to generate combined multi-omics. This process is a source of bias, mainly in the field of immunology on cells originating from pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells with high flexibility during maturation. (2) Methods: Although new multi-omics approaches have been developed to use the advantages of cellular and molecular barcoding and next-generation sequencing to solve this issue, one of the main current challenges is intracellular proteomics, which should be combined with other omics data with high importance for immune system studies. We designed this study to evaluate previously recommended minimal permeabilization and fixation methods on the quality and quantity of transcriptomics and proteomics data generated by the BD Rhapsody™ Single-Cell Analysis System. (3) Results: Our findings showed that high-throughput sequencing with advanced quality and read-out is required for the combination of multi-omics outcomes from a permeabilized single cell. Therefore, the HiseqX platform was selected for further analysis. The effect of immune stimulation was observed clearly as the separated clusters of helper and cytotoxic T cells using unsupervised clustering. Importantly, fixation and permeabilization did not affect the general expression profile of unstimulated cells. However, fixation and permeabilization were proved to negatively impact the detection of the whole transcriptome for single-cell assay. Nevertheless, about 60% of the transcriptomic signature of the stimulation was detected. If the measurement of combined surface and intracellular markers is required to be achieved, the modified fixation and permeabilization method is recommended because of a lower transcriptomic loss and more precise proteomic fingerprint detected. (4) Conclusions: The findings of this study support the potential possibility for integrating intracellular proteomics, which needs to be optimized and tested with newly designed oligonucleotide-tagged antibodies targeting intracellular proteins. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6b1aa59ee22f41368ecdd5f731ecede32025-08-20T02:11:17ZengMDPI AGAntibodies2073-44682025-02-011411510.3390/antib14010015Assessing the Influence of Selected Permeabilization Methods on Lymphocyte Single-Cell Multi-OmicsShifan Ding0Na Lu1Hassan Abolhassani2Division of Immunology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, 17177 Stockholm, SwedenDivision of Immunology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, 17177 Stockholm, SwedenDivision of Immunology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden(1) Background: Single-cell multi-omics is a powerful method for the dissection and detection of complicated immunologic functions and synapses. However, most currently available technologies merge datasets of different omics from separate portions of the same sample to generate combined multi-omics. This process is a source of bias, mainly in the field of immunology on cells originating from pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells with high flexibility during maturation. (2) Methods: Although new multi-omics approaches have been developed to use the advantages of cellular and molecular barcoding and next-generation sequencing to solve this issue, one of the main current challenges is intracellular proteomics, which should be combined with other omics data with high importance for immune system studies. We designed this study to evaluate previously recommended minimal permeabilization and fixation methods on the quality and quantity of transcriptomics and proteomics data generated by the BD Rhapsody™ Single-Cell Analysis System. (3) Results: Our findings showed that high-throughput sequencing with advanced quality and read-out is required for the combination of multi-omics outcomes from a permeabilized single cell. Therefore, the HiseqX platform was selected for further analysis. The effect of immune stimulation was observed clearly as the separated clusters of helper and cytotoxic T cells using unsupervised clustering. Importantly, fixation and permeabilization did not affect the general expression profile of unstimulated cells. However, fixation and permeabilization were proved to negatively impact the detection of the whole transcriptome for single-cell assay. Nevertheless, about 60% of the transcriptomic signature of the stimulation was detected. If the measurement of combined surface and intracellular markers is required to be achieved, the modified fixation and permeabilization method is recommended because of a lower transcriptomic loss and more precise proteomic fingerprint detected. (4) Conclusions: The findings of this study support the potential possibility for integrating intracellular proteomics, which needs to be optimized and tested with newly designed oligonucleotide-tagged antibodies targeting intracellular proteins.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4468/14/1/15lymphocytessingle-cell sequencingmulti-omicstranscriptomeproteome |
| spellingShingle | Shifan Ding Na Lu Hassan Abolhassani Assessing the Influence of Selected Permeabilization Methods on Lymphocyte Single-Cell Multi-Omics Antibodies lymphocytes single-cell sequencing multi-omics transcriptome proteome |
| title | Assessing the Influence of Selected Permeabilization Methods on Lymphocyte Single-Cell Multi-Omics |
| title_full | Assessing the Influence of Selected Permeabilization Methods on Lymphocyte Single-Cell Multi-Omics |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the Influence of Selected Permeabilization Methods on Lymphocyte Single-Cell Multi-Omics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the Influence of Selected Permeabilization Methods on Lymphocyte Single-Cell Multi-Omics |
| title_short | Assessing the Influence of Selected Permeabilization Methods on Lymphocyte Single-Cell Multi-Omics |
| title_sort | assessing the influence of selected permeabilization methods on lymphocyte single cell multi omics |
| topic | lymphocytes single-cell sequencing multi-omics transcriptome proteome |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4468/14/1/15 |
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