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Multiplexed Intact-Tissue Transcriptional Analysis at Cellular Resolution

Posted on Feb 12, 2016

Summary
In recently developed approaches for high-resolution imaging within intact tissue, molecular characterization over large volumes has been largely restricted to labeling of proteins. But volumetric nucleic acid labeling may represent a far greater scientific and clinical opportunity, enabling detection of not only diverse coding RNA variants but also non-coding RNAs. Moreover, scaling immunohistochemical detection to large tissue volumes has limitations due to high cost, limited renewability/availability, and restricted multiplexing capability of antibody labels. With the goal of versatile, highcontent, and scalable molecular phenotyping of intact tissues, we developed a method using carbodiimide-based chemistry to stably retain RNAs in clarified tissue, coupled with amplification tools for multiplexed detection. The resulting technology enables robust measurement of activitydependent transcriptional signatures, cell-identity markers, and diverse non-coding RNAs in rodent and human tissue volumes. The growing set of validated probes is deposited in an online resource for nucleating related developments from across the scientific community.

By Emily Lauren Sylwestrak, Priyamvada Rajasethupathy, Matthew Arnot Wright, Anna Jaffe, Karl Deisseroth

Cell Press | VOLUME 164, ISSUE 4, P792-804, FEBRUARY 11, 2016

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