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Perturb-FISH simultaneous CRISPR screening and spatial transcriptomics in astrocytes

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.35077/ace-gem-get ace-gem-get Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Scalable and Systematic Neurobiology of Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorder Risk Genes (SSPsyGene)

Cite this dataset

Binan, Loϊc, Binan, Loϊc. (2024). Perturb-FISH simultaneous CRISPR screening and spatial transcriptomics in astrocytes [Dataset/Microscopy]. Brain Image Library. https://doi.org/10.35077/ace-gem-get

Abstract

Pooled optical screens have enabled the study of cellular interactions, morphology, or dynamics at massive scale, but have not yet leveraged the power of highly-plexed single-cell resolved transcriptomic readouts to inform molecular pathways. Here, we present Perturb-FISH, which bridges these approaches by combining imaging spatial transcriptomics with parallel optical detection of in situ amplified guide RNAs. We show that Perturb-FISH recovers intracellular effects that are consistent with Perturb-seq results in a screen of lipopolysaccharide response in cultured monocytes, and uncover new intercellular and density-dependent regulation of the innate immune response. We further pair Perturb-FISH with a functional readout in a screen of autism spectrum disorder risk genes, showing common calcium activity phenotypes in induced pluripotent stem cell derived astrocytes and their associated genetic interactions and dysregulated molecular pathways. Perturb-FISH is thus a generally applicable method for studying the genetic and molecular associations of spatial and functional biology at single-cell resolution.

Methods

A full protocol describing the technology introduced in this work is available at protocols.io: https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.6qpvr356bvmk/v1

Contributors

Funding

Technical Information

Modality
spatial transcriptomics
Technique
MERFISH
Details
Computational analysis was performed in two parts: the decoding of the MERFISH signal was performed using the google cloud compute platform, using MERlin: https://github.com/lbinan/gcp_merlin

Instrument

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detectortype sCMOS camera with 2048 x 2048 pixel sensor
detectormodel Hamatsu orcaflash 4.0
illuminationtypes 5 lasers
illuminationwavelength 405, 475, 545, 635 and 750 nm
detectionwavelength 776nm,671nm,572nm,525nm,422nm
sampletemperature 25C

Specimen

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species Human
ncbitaxonomy NCBI:txid9606
age 30.0
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sex Male
genotype CRISPRi targeting of 127 autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk genes via dCas9-KRAB and MERFISH measurement of their effects on 254 genes with published links to ASD
organlocalid astrocyte
organname brain
samplelocalid UCSFi001-A
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Image

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