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NATURE PROTOCOLS
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 1647-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-020-00478-x
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- Searle Scholars Program
- Burroughs Wellcome Careers at the Scientific Interface Award
- Beckman Young Investigator Program
- NIH New Innovator Award DP2 [DGM132935A]
- Packard Fellows Program
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship
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The paper presents a microscopy approach called Optical Reconstruction of Chromatin Architecture (ORCA) for tracing the 3D DNA path within the nuclei of fixed tissues and cultured cells, achieving fine genomic resolution as Hi-C and single-cell resolution with multimodal measurements.
Chromatin conformation capture (3C) methods and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) microscopy have been used to investigate the spatial organization of the genome. Although powerful, both techniques have limitations. Hi-C is challenging for low cell numbers and requires very deep sequencing to achieve its high resolution. In contrast, FISH can be done on small cell numbers and capture rare cell populations, but typically targets pairs of loci at a lower resolution. Here we detail a protocol for optical reconstruction of chromatin architecture (ORCA), a microscopy approach to trace the 3D DNA path within the nuclei of fixed tissues and cultured cells with a genomic resolution as fine as 2 kb and a throughput of similar to 10,000 cells per experiment. ORCA can identify structural features with comparable resolution to Hi-C while providing single-cell resolution and multimodal measurements characteristic of microscopy. We describe how to use this DNA labeling in parallel with multiplexed labeling of dozens of RNAs to relate chromatin structure and gene expression in the same cells. Oligopaint probe design, primary probe making, sample collection, cryosectioning and RNA/DNA primary probe hybridization can be completed in 1.5 weeks, while automated RNA/DNA barcode hybridization and RNA/DNA imaging typically takes 2-6 d for data collection and 2-7 d for the automated steps of image analysis.
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