Publication Date:
2015-06-18
Description:
Cell-to-cell variation is a universal feature of life that affects a wide range of biological phenomena, from developmental plasticity to tumour heterogeneity. Although recent advances have improved our ability to document cellular phenotypic variation, the fundamental mechanisms that generate variability from identical DNA sequences remain elusive. Here we reveal the landscape and principles of mammalian DNA regulatory variation by developing a robust method for mapping the accessible genome of individual cells by assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq) integrated into a programmable microfluidics platform. Single-cell ATAC-seq (scATAC-seq) maps from hundreds of single cells in aggregate closely resemble accessibility profiles from tens of millions of cells and provide insights into cell-to-cell variation. Accessibility variance is systematically associated with specific trans-factors and cis-elements, and we discover combinations of trans-factors associated with either induction or suppression of cell-to-cell variability. We further identify sets of trans-factors associated with cell-type-specific accessibility variance across eight cell types. Targeted perturbations of cell cycle or transcription factor signalling evoke stimulus-specific changes in this observed variability. The pattern of accessibility variation in cis across the genome recapitulates chromosome compartments de novo, linking single-cell accessibility variation to three-dimensional genome organization. Single-cell analysis of DNA accessibility provides new insight into cellular variation of the 'regulome'.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685948/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685948/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Buenrostro, Jason D -- Wu, Beijing -- Litzenburger, Ulrike M -- Ruff, Dave -- Gonzales, Michael L -- Snyder, Michael P -- Chang, Howard Y -- Greenleaf, William J -- 5U54HG00455805/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- P50 HG007735/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- P50HG007735/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- T32 HG000044/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- T32HG000044/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- U19 AI057266/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- U19AI057266/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- U54 HG004558/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- UH2 AR067676/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jul 23;523(7561):486-90. doi: 10.1038/nature14590. Epub 2015 Jun 17.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA [2] Program in Epithelial Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Program in Epithelial Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA. ; 1] Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA [2] Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94025, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26083756" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Compartmentation
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Cell Cycle/genetics
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Cell Line
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Cells/classification/*metabolism
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Chromatin/*genetics/*metabolism
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DNA/genetics/metabolism
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Epigenesis, Genetic
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*Epigenomics
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Genome, Human/genetics
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Humans
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Microfluidics
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Signal Transduction
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Single-Cell Analysis/*methods
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Transcription Factors/metabolism
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Transposases/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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