scholarly journals Diamagnetic droplet microfluidics applied to single-cell sorting

AIP Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 075106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Buryk-Iggers ◽  
Jennifer Kieda ◽  
Scott S. H. Tsai
BIOspektrum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-276
Author(s):  
Morgan S. Sobol ◽  
Anne-Kristin Kaster

AbstractSingle cell genomics (SCG) can provide reliable context for assembled genome fragments on the level of individual prokaryotic genomes and has rapidly emerged as an essential complement to cultivation-based and metagenomics research approaches. Targeted cell sorting approaches, which enable the selection of specific taxa by fluorescent labeling, compatible with subsequent single cell genomics offers an opportunity to access genetic information from rare biosphere members which would have otherwise stayed hidden as microbial dark matter.


2017 ◽  
Vol 89 (7) ◽  
pp. 4007-4012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Dippong ◽  
Peter Carl ◽  
Christine Lenz ◽  
Jörg A. Schenk ◽  
Katrin Hoffmann ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang-qi Gao

Abstract Objectives The subsets of astrocytes in the brain have not been fully elucidated. Using bulk RNA sequencing, reactive astrocytes were divided into A1 versus A2. However, using single-cell RNAseq (ScRNAseq), astrocytes were divided into over two subsets. Our aim was to set up the correspondence between the fluorescent-activated cell sorting (FACS)-bulk RNAseq and ScRNAseq data. Results We found that most of reactive astrocytes (RAs) marker genes were expressed in endothelial cells but not in astrocytes, suggesting those marker genes are not suitable for astrocytic activation. The absence of A1 and A2 astrocytes in the brain.


Author(s):  
Qi Qiu ◽  
Peng Hu ◽  
Kiya W. Govek ◽  
Pablo G. Camara ◽  
Hao Wu

ABSTRACTSingle-cell RNA sequencing offers snapshots of whole transcriptomes but obscures the temporal dynamics of RNA biogenesis and decay. Here we present single-cell new transcript tagging sequencing (scNT-Seq), a method for massively parallel analysis of newly-transcribed and pre-existing RNAs from the same cell. This droplet microfluidics-based method enables high-throughput chemical conversion on barcoded beads, efficiently marking metabolically labeled newly-transcribed RNAs with T-to-C substitutions. By simultaneously measuring new and old transcriptomes, scNT-Seq reveals neuronal subtype-specific gene regulatory networks and time-resolved RNA trajectories in response to brief (minutes) versus sustained (hours) neuronal activation. Integrating scNT-Seq with genetic perturbation reveals that DNA methylcytosine dioxygenases may inhibit stepwise transition from pluripotent embryonic stem cell state to intermediate and totipotent two-cell-embryo-like (2C-like) states by promoting global RNA biogenesis. Furthermore, pulse-chase scNT-Seq enables transcriptome-wide measurements of RNA stability in rare 2C-like cells. Time-resolved single-cell transcriptomic analysis thus opens new lines of inquiry regarding cell-type-specific RNA regulatory mechanisms.


Author(s):  
Ayushi Agrawal ◽  
Chandra Kanth Bandi ◽  
Tucker Burgin ◽  
Youngwoo Woo ◽  
Heather B. Mayes ◽  
...  

AbstractEngineering of carbohydrate-active enzymes like glycosynthases for chemoenzymatic synthesis of bespoke oligosaccharides has been limited by the lack of suitable directed evolution based protein engineering methods. Currently there are no ultrahigh-throughput screening methods available for rapid and highly sensitive single cell-based screening of evolved glycosynthase enzymes employing azido sugars as substrates. Here, we report a fluorescence-based approach employing click-chemistry for the selective detection of glycosyl azides (versus free inorganic azides) that facilitated ultrahigh-throughput in-vivo single cell-based assay of glycosynthase activity. This discovery has led to the development of a directed evolution methodology for screening and sorting glycosynthase mutants for synthesis of desired fucosylated oligosaccharides. Our screening technique facilitated rapid fluorescence activated cell sorting of a large library of glycosynthase variants (>106 mutants) expressed in E. coli to identify several novel mutants with increased activity for β-fucosyl-azide activated donor sugars towards desired acceptor sugars, demonstrating the broader applicability of this methodology.


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