Nature Biotechnology

High-plex protein and whole transcriptome co-mapping at cellular resolution with spatial CITE-seq

Yang Liu, Marcello DiStasio, Graham Su, Hiromitsu Asashima, Archibald Enninful, Xiaoyu Qin, Yanxiang Deng, Jungmin Nam, Fu Gao, Pino Bordignon, Marco Cassano, Mary Tomayko, Mina Xu, Stephanie Halene, Joseph E. Craft, David Hafler & Rong Fan - February 23, 2023

Abstract

In this study, we extended co-indexing of transcriptomes and epitopes (CITE) to the spatial dimension and demonstrated high-plex protein and whole transcriptome co-mapping. We profiled 189 proteins and whole transcriptome in multiple mouse tissue types with spatial CITE sequencing and then further applied the method to measure 273 proteins and transcriptome in human tissues, revealing spatially distinct germinal center reactions in tonsil and early immune activation in skin at the Coronavirus Disease 2019 mRNA vaccine injection site.