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CELL REPORTS
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 380-389Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.12.021
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- European Community's 7th Framework Program [259796]
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme [294409]
- Swedish Research Council
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- Swedish Cancer Society
- Inga Britt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse
- Swedish Society for Medical Research
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Significant advances have been made in methods to analyze genomes and transcriptomes of single cells, but to fully define cell states, proteins must also be accessed as central actors defining a cell's phenotype. Methods currently used to analyze endogenous protein expression in single cells are limited in specificity, throughput, or multiplex capability. Here, we present an approach to simultaneously and specifically interrogate large sets of protein and RNA targets in lysates from individual cells, enabling investigations of cell functions and responses. We applied our method to investigate the effects of BMP4, an experimental therapeutic agent, on early-passage glioblastoma cell cultures. We uncovered significant heterogeneity in responses to treatment at levels of RNA and protein, with a subset of cells reacting in a distinct manner to BMP4. Moreover, we found overall poor correlation between protein and RNA at the level of single cells, with proteins more accurately defining responses to treatment.
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