Delineating genotypes and phenotypes of individual cells from long-read single cell transcriptomes.

Autor: Shiau CK, Lu L, Kieser R, Fukumura K, Pan T, Lin HY, Yang J, Tong EL, Lee G, Yan Y, Huse JT, Gao R
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BioRxiv : the preprint server for biology [bioRxiv] 2023 Feb 03. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 03.
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.24.525264
Abstrakt: Single-cell nanopore sequencing of full-length mRNAs (scNanoRNAseq) is transforming singlecell multi-omics studies. However, challenges include computational complexity and dependence on short-read curation. To address this, we developed a comprehensive toolkit, scNanoGPS to calculate same-cell genotypes-phenotypes without short-read guidance. We applied scNanoGPS onto 23,587 long-read transcriptomes from 4 tumors and 2 cell lines. Standalone, scNanoGPS accurately deconvoluted error-prone long-reads into single-cells and single-molecules. Further, scNanoGPS simultaneously accessed both phenotypes (expressions/isoforms) and genotypes (mutations) of individual cells. Our analyses revealed that tumor and stroma/immune cells often expressed significantly distinct combinations of isoforms (DCIs). In a kidney tumor, we identified 924 genes with DCIs involved in cell-type-specific functions such as PDE10A in tumor cells and CCL3 in lymphocytes. Moreover, transcriptome-wide mutation analyses identified many cell-type-specific mutations including VEGFA mutations in tumor cells and HLA-A mutations in immune cells, highlighting critical roles of different populations in tumors. Together, scNanoGPS facilitates applications of single-cell long-read sequencing.
Databáze: MEDLINE