Sample preparation
1. Harvest cells (from tissues or cultured cell line), digest cells into single-cell suspension, wash and resuspend cells by PBS or 1%BSA/PBS. Fix cells by adding -20°C methanol (Sigma) drop by drop to a final concentration of 90%. The prepared sample can be stored at -80°C for later use.
Attention: Buffers and reagents used below are RNase free.
Binding cells to Concanavalin A beads
2. ConA beads activation: Wash 5-20 µl Concanavalin A (ConA) beads with 1 ml Binding Buffer (20 mM HEPES pH 7.9, 4 mM KCl, 0.4 mM CaCl2 and 0.4 mM MnCl2) twice. Resuspend beads with 5-20 µl Binding Buffer before apply them to the cell mixture.
Attention: Wash tubes with 1% BSA/PBS prior to use and use low-retention tubes if possible. This operation can prevent cell/beads loss.
3. Centrifugate the cells at 1000 G, 4°C for 5 min. Resuspend the cells with 1 ml Wash Buffer (20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 300 mM NaCl, 0.5 µM spermidine and 10 mM sodium butyrate) and add 5~20 µl activated ConA beads to the cell suspension.
4. Incubate the cells-beads mixture at RT for 10-20 min.
Binding antibody
5. Collect cells by magnetic stand. Wash cells by 1 ml Wash Buffer once, put the tube on the magnetic stand and pull off all liquid.
6. Resuspend cells with 100 µl Antibody buffer (supplied 2 mM EDTA, 0.01% Digitonin, 0.05% TX-100, 2% proteinase inhibitor cocktail (Roche), 1% recombinant RNase inhibitor (TAKARA) in Wash Buffer). Add 0.5 µl antibody against protein of interest, and incubate the cell suspension at 4°C for ~3h.
Attention: (Optional) Binding a 2nd antibody is recommended if 1st antibody has low affinity against protein A.
Binding PAT
7. Wash cells twice with 180 µl Dig-Wash Buffer without TX-100 (Wash Buffer supplemented with 0.01% Digitonin) and resuspend cells with 500 µl 1% BSA / PBS.
8. Prepare PAT incubation plate: Add 70 µl Dig-Wash buffer to each well which contains individual combinatorial barcoded 6 µg/ml PAT-T5 and 6 µg/ml PAT-T7.
Attention: Dilute 37.5 µM stocked barcoded PAT by Dig Wash Buffer (Wash Buffer supplemented with 0.01% Digitonin, 0.05% TX-100, 2% proteinase inhibitor cocktail (Roche), 1% recombinant RNase inhibitor (TAKARA) and 1 mM DTT) at 1:445 to a final concentration of 6 µg/ml. Add 35 µl diluted PAT-T5 and 35 µl diluted PAT-T7 to each well.
9. FACS or pipette 500-2,000 cells into each well.
Attention: Cell number in each well should be equivalent, which can be scaled from 500/well to 2,000/well
10. Place the plate on a rotator and incubate at 4°C for 1 h.
11. Put the plate on a 96-well magnetic stand and pull off all liquid. Wash cells twice by 180 µl Dig-Wash buffer (Wash Buffer supplemented with 0.01% Digitonin and 0.05% TX-100).
Attention: Change tips every pipetting to prevent barcode contamination.
Targeted tagmentation
12. Resuspend cells with 10 µl cold Reaction Buffer (10 mM TAPS-NaOH pH 8.3, 5 mM MgCl2, 2% proteinase inhibitor cocktail, 1% Recombinant RNase inhibitor, 1 mM DTT and 10 mM sodium butyrate) by pipetting.
13. Tagmentation: Incubate the plate at 25°C for 1 h in a thermal cycler. The reaction system is gently mixed once after 30-min incubation.
14. Add 10 µl 40 mM EDTA to each well and mix well. Incubate the plate at 4°C for 15 min.
15. Add 1 µl 250 mM MgCl2 to each well and incubate the plate at 4°C for 5 min.
16. Collect cells by magnetic stand. Briefly wash cells by 100 µl 1% BSA/PBS and discard all liquid.
Reverse transcription
17. Add 2 µl barcoded RT-lysis Buffer (1.2 µl PBS, 0.5 µl 10 mM dNTP mix, 0.05 µl RNase inhibitor (Takara), 0.25 µl 5 µM barcoded oligo dT, and 0.01% Digitonin) to each well, and gently pipette.
Attention: RT lysis Buffer should be prepared before the experiment. One kind of barcoded oligo dT primer is added to one well individually, which makes all 96-wells carrying different barcoded oligo dT. Carefully note the corresponding PAT-barcode and oligo dT-barcode for each well.
18. Incubate the plate at 55°C for 5 min and immediately put the plate onto a cold block to cool down.
19. Add 2.85 µl RT-mix (0.20 µl SuperScript IV reverse transcriptase (Thermo Fisher), 0.125 µl RNase inhibitor (Takara), 1 µl 5 x SuperScript IV first-strand buffer (Thermo Fisher), 0.25 µl 100 mM DTT, 1 µl 5M Betaine (Sigma), 0.05 µl 100 µM TSO (Table S1) and 0.195 µl PBS, 0.03 µl 1M MgCl2, and 0.01% Digitonin) to each well. Perform reverse transcription as below: 4°C 2 min, 10°C 2 min, 20°C 2 min, 30°C 2 min, 42°C 10 min, 50°C 2 min 55°C 5 min, and hold at 4°C.
20. Add 5 µl cold Sorting Buffer (PBS supplemented with 2% BSA and 2 mM EDTA) to each well. Combine all cells from 96 wells into a 1.5 ml tube. Wash cells with 1 ml 1% BSA/PBS.
21. Add DAPI(Thermo) to a final concentration of 1.2 µg/ml and stain cells on ice for 15 min.
Redistributing cells and Releasing DNA
22. Filter the cells through a 70 µm cell strainer to remove cell clumps, and sort 20~25 cells into each well of a new 96-well plate which contains 3 µl Lysis Buffer (10 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.5, 0.05 % SDS, 0.1 mg/ml proteinase K)in each well.
23. Incubate the plate at 55°C for 60 min.
24. Add 1 µl 1.8% Triton X-100 together with 1µl 10 mM PMSF to each well, and incubate the plate at 55°C for 5 min to quench SDS.
Pre-amplification
25. Add 20 µl PCR mix (5 µl 5 x KAPA HiFi Buffer, 0.5 µl 10 mM dNTP Mix, 0.75 µl 10 µM IS primer (AAGCAGTGGTATCAACGCAGAGT), 0.75 µl 10 µM 3’P2 primer (GTGACTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATC), 0.25 µl 1 U/µl KAPA HiFi DNA Polymerase (KK2102), 0.5 µl 25 mM MgCl2 and 12.25 µl ddH2O) to each well. The PCR enrichment was performed as below: 1 cycle of 72°C 5 min; 1 cycle of 95°C 3 min; 4 cycles of: 98°C 20 s, 65°C for 30 s,72°C for 5 min; 7 cycles of: 98°C 20 s, 67°C 15 s, 72°C for 5 min; hold at 4°C. Immediately add 0.5 µl total 10 µM connector A/B primer mix(connector A: TCGTCGGCAGCGTCTCCACGC; connector B: GTCTCGTGGGCTCGGCTGTCC) to each well followed by: 5 cycles of: 98°C 20 s, 67°C 15 s, 72°C for 5 min; 1 cycle of 72°C for 5 min; hold at 4°C.
26. Prepare custom 1:10 diluted AMPure XP beads: Pipette 100 µl original AMPure XP beads to a new tube, put it on magnetic stand, and resuspend beads in 1000 µl AMPure binding buffer (20% PEG 8000, 2.5 M NaCl, 10 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 1 mM EDTA and 0.05% Tween 20).
27. Add 0.8X (20 µl) custom XP beads to each well and vortex thoroughly. DNA was purified and eluted with 10.5 µl ddH2O. Transfer 5 µl DNA elution to a new plate for DNA-partition library preparation and 5 µl DNA elution for RNA-partition library preparation.
DNA-part library preparation
28. Add 15 µl PCR mix (0.2 µl KAPA HiFi (not HotStrat) DNA Polymerase, 4 µl 5 x KAPA High-GC Buffer, 1 µl 10 mM dNTP Mix, 0.4 µl 25 mM MgCl2, 8.9 µl ddH2O and 0.5 µl total 50 µM primer mix (forward: ACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCTTCGTCGGCAGCGTCTCCACGC; reverse: GACTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCTGTCTCGTGGGCTCGGCTGTCCC) to each well. The PCR enrichment was performed as below: 1 cycle of 95°C 3 min; 8 cycles of: 98°C 20 s, 65°C for 30 s,72°C for 1 min; 1 cycle of 72°C 5 min; hold at 4°C.
29. Add 2 µl 1:8 diluted ExoI (NEB) to each well and incubate the plate at 37°C for 60 min followed by 72°C for 20 min.
30. Add 10 µl PCR mix (0.2 µl KAPA HiFi HotStart DNA Polymerase, 2 µl 5 x KAPA High-GC Buffer, 0.2 µl 25 mM MgCl2, 5.6 µl ddH2O, 1 µl 10 mM Truseq index i5 and 1 µl Truseq index i7) to each well. PCR enrichment was performed as below: 1 cycle of 95°C 3min; 5 cycles of: 98°C for 20 s, 65°C for 30 s, 72°C for 1 min; 1 cycle of 72°C for 5 min; hold at 4°C.
31. Combine all the PCR product into a 50 ml tube, purify DNA by TIANquick Mini Purification Kit (TIANGEN), and elute DNA in 60 µl ddH2O.
32. Purify the library once with 0.8X AMPure XP beads.
33. Size selection: Perform gel extraction for the fragments at the size of 400-1,000 bp on 1.5% agarose gel. Finally purify DNA by 0.8 × AMPure XP beads (Beckmann) and elute with 20 µl ddH2O.
34. Sequence the libraries with paired-end 150-bp reads on Novaseq 6000 platform (Illumina).
RNA-part library preparation
35. Add 2.5 µl tagmentation mix (0.75 µl 10X TAPS-MgCl2, 0.75 µl DMF and 1 µl Tn5-MEA (25 nM)) to each well, and incubate the plate at 55°C for 5 min in a thermal cycler.
36. Add 1 µl 0.2% SDS and 0.4 µl BSA (NEB) to each well, and incubate the plate at 55°C for 5 min.
37. Add 1 µl 1.8% TX-100 to each well to quench SDS, and incubate the plate at 55°C for 5 min.
38. Add 28.1 µl PCR mix (0.4 µl KAPA HiFi (not HotStart) DNA Polymerase, 8 µl 5 x KAPA High-GC Buffer, 1 µl 10 mM dNTP Mix, 0.8 µl 25 mM MgCl2 and 17.9 µl H2O), 1 µl 10 mM Nextera index i5 primer and 1 µl Truseq index i7 primer separately to each well. PCR enrichment was performed as below: 1 cycle of 72°C for 5 min; 1 cycle of 95°C for 3 min; 11 cycles of: 98°C for 20 s, 65°C for 30 s, 72°C for 1 min; 1 cycle of 72°C for 5 min; hold at 4°C.
39. Combine all the PCR product into a 50 ml tube; purify DNA by TIANquick Mini Purification Kit (TIANGEN); elute DNA in 60 µl ddH2O.
40. Purify the library once with 0.8X (48 µl) AMPure XP beads.
41. Size selection: Perform gel extraction for the fragments at the size of 400-1,000 bp on 1.5% agarose gel. Finally purify DNA by 0.8 × AMPure XP beads (Beckmann) and elute with 20 µl ddH2O.
42. Sequence the libraries with paired-end 150-bp reads on Novaseq 6000 platform (Illumina).