Volume 134, Issue 7 e202113929
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Optical Cell Tagging for Spatially Resolved Single-Cell RNA Sequencing

Qi Tang

Qi Tang

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Lu Liu

Lu Liu

Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center (BIOPIC), School of Life Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG), Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Yilan Guo

Yilan Guo

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

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Xu Zhang

Xu Zhang

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

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Shaoran Zhang

Shaoran Zhang

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

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Yan Jia

Yan Jia

Renal Division, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034 China

Institute of Nephrology, Key Laboratory of CKD Prevention and Treatment of Ministry of Education of China, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

Research Units of Diagnosis and Treatment of Immune-mediated Kidney Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730 China

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Yifei Du

Yifei Du

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

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Bo Cheng

Bo Cheng

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

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Prof. Li Yang

Corresponding Author

Prof. Li Yang

Renal Division, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034 China

Institute of Nephrology, Key Laboratory of CKD Prevention and Treatment of Ministry of Education of China, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

Research Units of Diagnosis and Treatment of Immune-mediated Kidney Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730 China

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Prof. Yanyi Huang

Corresponding Author

Prof. Yanyi Huang

Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center (BIOPIC), School of Life Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG), Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Science, and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

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Prof. Xing Chen

Corresponding Author

Prof. Xing Chen

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China

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First published: 30 December 2021
Citations: 2

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has emerged as a powerful tool for profiling gene expression of distinct cell populations at the single-cell level. However, the information of the positions of cells within the multicellular samples is missing in scRNA-seq datasets. To overcome this limitation, we herein develop OpTAG (optical cell tagging) as a new chemical platform for attaching functional tags onto cell surfaces in a spatially resolved manner. With OpTAG, we establish OpTAG-seq, which enables spatially resolved scRNA-seq. We apply OpTAG-seq to investigate the spatially defined transcriptional program in migrating cancer cells and identified a list of genes that are potential regulators for cancer cell migration and invasion. OpTAG-seq provides a convenient method for mapping cellular heterogeneity with spatial information within multicellular biological systems.

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