STAR Protocols (Dec 2021)

Co-staining human PBMCs with fluorescent antibodies and antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates for cell sorting prior to single-cell CITE-Seq

  • Xiaoshan Shi,
  • Gisele V. Baracho,
  • Woodrow E. Lomas, III,
  • Stephanie J. Widmann,
  • Aaron J. Tyznik

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4
p. 100893

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Summary: The dual interrogation of the transcriptome and proteome with single-cell resolution provides exquisite insights into immune mechanisms in health and disease. Here, we describe a cutting-edge protocol wherein we combine Cellular Indexing of Transcriptomes and Epitopes by Sequencing (CITE-Seq), a technique utilizing antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs), with fluorescence-activated cell sorting to enrich rare cell populations. Our protocol incorporates co-staining of cells with both fluorescent antibodies and AOCs simultaneously for subsequent input into the cell sorting and CITE-Seq pipeline.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Mair et al. (2020).

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