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URL: https://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.17504/protocols.io.be8mjhu6

Authors: Silvia Domcke, Andrew J. Hill, Riza M. Daza, Cole Trapnell, Darren A. Cusanovich, Jay Shendure

Group: Human Cell Atlas Method Development Community

Summary: We developed an improved assay for single cell profiling of chromatin accessibility that both uses three levels of combinatorial indexing and, in contrast with previous iterations of sci-ATAC-seq and related methods, does not rely on molecularly barcoded Tn5 complexes (sci-ATAC-seq3). Rather, the first two rounds of indexing are achieved by ligation to either end of the conventional, uniformly loaded Tn5 transposase complex (standard Nextera™), while the final round of indexing remains through PCR. Relative to two-level sci-ATAC-seq but similar to sci-RNA-seq3, sci-ATAC-seq3 reduces the per-cell cost of library preparation as well as the rate of collisions, opening the door to experiments on the scale of 10^6 cells. This protocol no longer requires cell sorting, and we also optimized ligase and polymerase choice, kinase concentration, and oligo designs and concentrations, to maximize the number of fragments recovered from each cell. Of note, while maintaining an enrichment in accessible regions, we made the explicit choice to maximize complexity at the expense of specificity for accessible sites. In particular, we found that the fixation conditions could be tuned to adjust the sensitivity (i.e. complexity) vs. specificity (i.e. enrichment in accessible sites) of the assay.

Affiliations: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing, Seattle, WA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, WA, USA

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Publication Date: 2020

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