Effect of methanol fixation on single-cell RNA sequencing of the murine dentate gyrus

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Sanchez-Carbonell, Marta [1 ]
Peinado, Patricia Jimenez [1 ]
Bayer-Kaufmann, Cathrin [1 ]
Hennings, Jean-Christopher [2 ]
Hofmann, Yvonne [3 ]
Schmidt, Silvio [1 ,4 ,5 ]
Witte, Otto W. [1 ,4 ,6 ]
Urbach, Anja [1 ,4 ,6 ]
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[1] Jena Univ Hosp, Dept Neurol, Jena, Germany
[2] Jena Univ Hosp, Inst Human Genet, Jena, Germany
[3] Jena Univ Hosp, Dept Internal Med 5, Jena, Germany
[4] Jena Univ Hosp, Jena Ctr Hlth Aging, Jena, Germany
[5] Jena Univ Hosp, Brain Imaging Ctr, Jena, Germany
[6] Aging Res Ctr ARC, Jena, Germany
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methanol fixation; primary neural cells; SORT-seq; dentate gyrus; adult neurogenesis; single-cell RNA sequencing; NEUROGENESIS; BRAIN;
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10.3389/fnmol.2023.1223798
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Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
摘要
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides a powerful tool to evaluate the transcriptomic landscape and heterogeneity of thousands of cells in parallel. However, complex study designs or the unavailability of in-house instruments require the temporal disconnection between sample preparation and library construction, raising the need for efficient sample preservation methods which are compatible with scRNA-seq downstream analysis. Several studies evaluated the effect of methanol fixation as preservation method, yet none of them deeply assessed its effect on adult primary dissociated brain tissue. Here, we evaluated its effect on murine dentate gyrus (DG) single cell suspensions and on subsequent scRNA-seq downstream analysis by performing SOrting and Robot-assisted Transcriptome SEQuencing (SORT-seq), a partially robotized version of the CEL-seq2 protocol. Our results show that MeOH fixation preserves RNA integrity and has no apparent effects on cDNA library construction. They also suggest that fixation protects from sorting-induced cell stress and increases the proportion of high-quality cells. Despite evidence of mRNA leakage in fixed cells, their relative gene expression levels correlate well with those of fresh cells and fixation does not significantly affect the variance of the dataset. Moreover, it allows the identification of all major DG cell populations, including neural precursors, granule neurons and different glial cell types, with a tendency to preserve more neurons that are underrepresented in fresh samples. Overall, our data show that MeOH fixation is suitable for preserving primary neural cells for subsequent single-cell RNA profiling, helping to overcome challenges arising from complex workflows, improve experimental flexibility and facilitate scientific collaboration.
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