WO2017027367A1 - Nanoscale imaging of proteins and nucleic acids via expansion microscopy - Google Patents

Nanoscale imaging of proteins and nucleic acids via expansion microscopy Download PDF

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WO2017027367A1
WO2017027367A1 PCT/US2016/045751 US2016045751W WO2017027367A1 WO 2017027367 A1 WO2017027367 A1 WO 2017027367A1 US 2016045751 W US2016045751 W US 2016045751W WO 2017027367 A1 WO2017027367 A1 WO 2017027367A1
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  • Nanoscale-resolution imaging of RNA throughout cells, tissues, and organs is key for an understanding of local RNA processing, mapping structural roles of RNA, and defining cell types and states.
  • ExM Expansion microscopy
  • the optical diffraction limit is circumvented by physically expanding a biological specimen before imaging, thus bringing sub-diffraction limited structures into the size range viewable by a conventional diffraction-limited microscope.
  • ExM can image biological specimens at the voxel rates of a diffraction limited microscope, but with the voxel sizes of a super-resolution microscope. Expanded samples are transparent, and index-matched to water, as the expanded material is >99% water.
  • the original ExM protocol worked by labeling biomolecules of interest with a gel-anchorable fluorophore.
  • a small molecule linker is synthesized that enables RNA to be covalently attached to the ExM gel.
  • This method referred to as ExFISH, enables RNA fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), which enables identification of transcripts in situ with single molecule precision.
  • FISH RNA fluorescent in situ hybridization
  • a set of fluorescent probes complementary to a target strand of mRNA are delivered 2 .
  • Single molecule FISH smFISH
  • ExFISH can support smFISH in cell culture, and HCR-amplified FISH in intact mouse brain tissues.
  • ExFISH can reveal nanoscale structures of long non-coding RNAs (IncRNAs), as well as for localizing neural mRNAs to individual dendritic spines. ExFISH will be useful for a diversity of questions relating the structure and location of RNA to biological functions.
  • Fig. 1A-1I Design and validation of ExFISH chemistry.
  • Inset shows zoomed-in region, highlighting transcription sites in nucleus.
  • ID As in (1C), using ExFISH.
  • IF smFISH image of XIST long non-coding RNA (IncRNA) in the nucleus of a HEK293 cell before expansion (white line denotes nuclear envelope in IF- 1H).
  • (1H smFISH image before expansion (top), and using ExFISH
  • Scale bars (white, in pre-expansion units; blue scale bars are divided by the expansion factor noted))): (1C, ID) 10 ⁇ (expansion factor, 3.3x), inset 2 ⁇ ; (IF, 1 G) 2 ⁇ (3.3x), Z scale represented by color coding in pre-expansion units; (1H) 2 ⁇ (3.3 x); (II) 200 nm (3.3 x).
  • Fig. 2A-2E Serially hybridized and multiplexed ExFISH.
  • (2C) ExFISH RNA counts for each round, normalized to the round 1 count; plotted is mean + standard error; n 3 regions of (2A).
  • Fig. 3A-3K Nanoscale imaging of RNA in mammalian brain.
  • one plane of the boxed region (red, YFP protein; cyan, YFP mRNA; magenta, Gadl mRNA).
  • the raw image (3G(i)) uses alternating probes in two colors (red, Dlg4 missense even; blue, Dlg4 missense odd).
  • the processed image (3G(ii)) shows zero co-localized spots (magenta).
  • Fig. 4A-4B (4A) Epi-fluorescence image of single molecule FISH (smFISH) against
  • HeLa cells were stained with smFISH probe-sets, followed by DNAse I treatment to remove the staining. The cells were then treated with LabelX and stained again with the same smFISH probe-sets.
  • 5A UBC staining before LabelX treatment and
  • 5B UBC staining after probe removal and LabelX treatment.
  • 5C EEF2 staining before LabelX treatment.
  • 5D EEF2 staining after probe removal and LabelX treatment.
  • Fig. 6A-6G Different RNA species spanning 3 orders of magnitude in abundance were detected via single molecule RNA fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) in HeLa cells before and after ExM with LabelX treatment (shown in Fig. IE).
  • 7A-7E (7A) Pre-expansion widefield image of a cultured HeLa cell stained with DAPI to visualize the nucleus (top panel) and smFISH probes against ACTB (bottom panel). (7B) Post-expansion widefield image of the same cell as in (a). (7C) Pre-expansion widefield image of LabelX treated Thyl-YFP brain slice (left panel, YFP protein) stained with DAPI (right panel) (MIP, 4 ⁇ z-depth). (7D) Post-expansion image of the same region as in (c) (MIP, 12 ⁇ ). (7E) Ratio of the expansion factor of cell bodies for individual cells to the expansion factor of their respective nuclei.
  • Fig. 8A-8D (8A) Representative FISH image of TOP2A in a single HeLa cell before expansion (MIP of cell thickness). (8B) ExFISH image of cell in (8A) taken with the same optical parameters. (8C) Merged image of (8A) and (8B) (red and green for before and after expansion respectively); distance measurements between pairs of mRNA spots before (L, red line) and after (L', green line; note that these lines overlap nearly completely) expansion were used to quantify expansion isotropy. (8D) Mean of the absolute value of the measurement error (i.e.,
  • ) plotted against measurement length (L) for all pairs of mRNA spots (mean ⁇ standard deviation, N 4 samples, 6.8 x 10 5 measurements). Scale bars: white, 10 ⁇ pre- expansion units; blue, white scale bar divided by expansion factor. Orange line indicates diffraction limit of the microscope used (see methods for details).
  • Fig. 9A-9B (9A) Five consecutive widefield fluorescence images (top to bottom, then left to right) of GAPDH, applied to the cell of Fig. 2a. (9B) Widefield fluorescence images showing ExFISH with serially delivered probes against six RNA targets (right to left, then top to bottom: NEAT1, EEF2, ACTB, UBC, GAPDH, and USF2) in a cultured HeLa cell (raw images of composite shown in Fig. 2E). Scale bars: 20 ⁇ in expanded units.
  • Fig. 10 FISH probes bearing HCR initiators are hybridized to a target mRNA. During amplification, metastable DNA hairpins bearing fluorophores assemble into polymer chains onto the initiators, thus amplifying signal downstream of the FISH probe hybridization event.
  • Fig. 11A-11C (11 A) Widefield image of a LabelX treated Thyl-YFP brain slice (YFP protein, green) stained with probes against YFP (red) and Gadl (magenta) followed by HCR amplification. Probes against YFP transcripts were amplified with the Bl amplifier set (see Methods) while probes against Gadl transcripts were amplified with the B2 amplifier set (MIP, 59 ⁇ ). (11B) Widefield image of LabelX treated Thy 1 -YFP brain slice (YFP protein, green) treated with the same HCR amplifiers as in (a) (namely Bl (red) and B2 (magenta)) without the addition of probes (MIP, 50 ⁇ ).
  • Fig. 12A-12C (12A) Volume rendering of Thyl-YFP (green) brain tissue acquired by lightsheet microscopy with HCR-ExFISH targeting YFP (red) and Gadl (blue) mRNA. (12B) A maximum intensity projection ( ⁇ 8 ⁇ in Z) of a small subsection of the volume, showing the high resolution of imaging and single molecule localization of imaging expanded specimens with lightsheet imaging (scale bar: 10 ⁇ , in pre-expansion units, expansion factor, 3x). (12C) Zoom in of the volume rendering in (12A) (scale bar: 20 ⁇ , in pre- expansion units, 3x).
  • Fig. 13A-13K (13A) Schematic showing two color amplification of the same target. A transcript of interest is targeted by probes against alternating parts of the sequence, and bearing two different HCR initiators, allowing for amplification in two colors. (13B)
  • Fig. 14A-14B (14A) Schematic for HCR amplification and reversal. HCR amplification is initiated with custom-made HCR hairpins bearing toe-holds for toe-hold mediated strand displacement. After amplification, the addition of a disassembling strand initiates the disassembly of the HCR polymers via strand displacement.
  • 14B ExFISH- treated Thyl-YFP brain slice (YFP in blue) is shown stained with YFP FISH probes bearing HCR initiators and amplified with custom made HCR hairpins bearing toe-holds for strand displacement (green dots). The different panels show the state of HCR reversal at different times after the addition of strands to initiate the disassembly of the HCR polymers. Scale bars: 20 ⁇ (in post-expansion units).
  • Fig. 15 Dependence of RNA FISH spot intensity on degree of expansion and concentration of LabelX.
  • HeLa cells, treated with LabelX diluted to different final concentrations of Label-It Amine concentration, were expanded and stained with a probe-set against GAPDH. After staining, the gelled samples were expanded in l x PBS ( ⁇ 2x expansion ratio) and water ( ⁇ 4x expansion ratio) and the spot intensity for the different samples was quantified. Plotted are mean + standard error; N 6 cells.
  • the present invention provides for the anchoring of nucleic acids into the swellable gel of Expansion Microscopy (ExM), both for in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment, as well as to enable nucleic acid barcodes to be used to identify essentially arbitrary numbers of molecules.
  • International patent application serial number PCT/US 15/16788 which is incorporated herein by reference, teaches that the resolution of conventional microscopy can be increased by physically expanding specimens, a process termed 'expansion microscopy' (ExM).
  • ExM Expansion microscopy'
  • biological specimens are embedded in a swellable gel material, subjected to a treatment to disrupt native biological networks, and then expanded.
  • the advantages to ExM include tissue clearing, resolution improvement, and higher tolerance to sectioning error due to the specimen expansion in the z-axis.
  • the invention provides methods that covalently anchor native nucleic acid molecules and antibody barcodes to the expandable gel matrix of expansion microscopy (ExM), Nucleic acids are modified using a small molecule tag, which lets them participate in free radical polymerization during gelling. During the gel formation step, any biomolecules bearing reactive groups are anchored into the gel and isotropically separated as the gel expands.
  • the invention provides a nucleic acid reactive reagent that also carries a chemical group that can get incorporated into the gel. After treatment of samples with this reagent, nucleic acids, including DNA and RNA, are covalently labeled with this reagent. Afterwards, during gel formation, labeled nucleic acids are covalently incorporated into the gel. Using such anchored nucleic acids, the information in the nucleic acid can be used as a barcode, e.g. barcoded antibodies can be used for multiplexed in situ staining for ExM, enabling "arbitrary -color" imaging.
  • RNA and DNA By covalently anchoring the nucleic acids, existing technologies for reading out RNA and DNA can be applied to the expanded context. These strategies include single molecule FISH (Imaging individual mRN A molecules using multiple singly labeled probes. Nature Methods, 2008 Oct: 5(10): 877-9), oligo-paint ("Versatile design and synthesis platform for visualizing genomes with Oligopamt FISH probes.” PNAS 109.52 (2012): 21301-21306) and many other hybridization based readout strategies. Furthermore, the covalent anchoring allows for sequential hybridization, leading to various multiplexing strategies including serial, spectral, and temporal barcoding schemes.
  • the present invention provides methods for labeling and staining with DNA-barcoded primary antibodies, allowing for an arbitrar ' number of protein tags to be utilized with ExM. This is a key step towards "infinite color” imaging, since previous the expansion microscopy method only enabled 3 -color imaging.
  • the invention provides a method for performing sequential hybridizations against nucleic acids covalently incorporated into an ExM gel.
  • buffer condition for hybridizing complementary oligonucleotides bearing fiuorophores to the nucleic acids in the ExM gel are provided.
  • the ExM gel is re-embedded in a polyacryiamide gel to minimize distortions resulting from changes in buffer.
  • chemical and enzymatic strategies for removing oligonucleotides hybridized to nucleic acids which are covalently anchored to the gel have been developed, which enables re-staining with the same or different oligonucleotides.
  • Chemical strategies include using formamide and high temperatures to de-hybridize oligonucleotides forming duplexes with nucleic acids in the gel.
  • Enzymatic strategies involve using endonucleases that specifically digest the oligonuetides which are hybridized to nucleic acids while leavin the nucleic acids anchored in the gel intact.
  • the small molecule linkers are attached to target nucleic acids via a chemical reactive group capable of covalently binding the target nucleic acid.
  • the small molecule linker may be labeled and or the at least one oligonucleotide may be labeled.
  • embedding the biological sample in a swellable material may comprise permeating the biological sample with a composition comprising precursors of a swellable polymer and forming a swellable polymer in situ.
  • the at least one target nucleic acid is anchored to the swellable material.
  • the physical disruption method is an enzymatic digestion.
  • the target nucleic acids are DNA and/or RNA.
  • the expanded biological sample expresses one or more labeled target nucleic acids.
  • the expanded sample may be buffered prior to providing at least one oligonucleotide.
  • the expanded sample may be re-embedded in a non-swellable material prior to genomically or transcriptically assessing the expanded biological sample. Buffering enables removal of the at least one oligonucleotide through chemical or enzymatic means. For example, formamide and high temperature could be used to chemically remove the at least one oligonucleotide while endonucleases that specifically digest the at least one oligonucleotide could accomplish the same task enzymatically.
  • serial or sequential genomic and transcript assessments may be performed on the same expanded sample by repeating the steps of removing the at least one oligonucleotide and providing either the same or different at least one oligonucleotide.
  • HCR Hybridization Chain Reaction
  • Fab Secondary antibodies were conjugated to DNA oligo barcodes bearing 5' acrydite and 3' amine via the Solulink commercial kit. To conjugate IgG primary antibodies with oligo tagged Fabs. Fabs were incubated with primary antibodies along with fluorescently labeled oligonucleotides complementary to the barcodes. Subsequently, excess fabs and oligos were removed using centrifugal spin filters.
  • RNAs are crosslinked to proteins during fixation, the strong proteolysis of ExM precludes a reliance on proteins for RNA retention (Figs. 4A, 4B).
  • a reagent was synthesized from two building blocks: a molecule containing both an amine as well as an alkylating group that primarily reacts to the N7 of guanine, and a molecule that contains an amine-reactive succinamide ester and a polymerizable acrylamide moiety.
  • Fig. 1A depicts this molecule, which enables RNA to be covalently functionalized with a free radical polymerizable group, and which will be referred to as LabelX. As shown in Fig. 5E, LabelX does not impede smFISH readout.
  • RNAs could then be interrogated through FISH (Fig. IB).
  • smFISH images taken with probes delivered before (Fig. 1C) and after (Fig. ID) expansion, to the same cells, showed no loss of transcript detectability with expansion for both low- and high-copy number transcripts (Fig. IE).
  • the ratio of transcripts detected was near unity at low transcript counts (e.g., in the 10's), however, more transcripts were detected after expansion for highly expressed mRNAs (e.g., in the 1 ,000's) (Figs. 9A, 9B, Table 2).
  • IncRNAs Long non-coding RNAs known to serve structural roles in cell biology were imaged.
  • the IncRNA XIST was imaged. Its role in inactivating the X chromosome may depend on initial association with specific chromatin subregions through a process which is still being revealed 11 .
  • the pre-expansion image (Fig. IF) shows two bright globular fluorescent regions, presumably corresponding to the X chromosomes of HEK cells undergoing inactivation 11 13 , but post-expansion, individual puncta were apparent both within the globular regions as well as nearby (Fig. 1 G).
  • ExFISH was used additionally to examine the previously described 14 ring-shaped morphology of ensembles ⁇ IncRNAs (Fig.
  • RNA anchoring to the ExM gel
  • de-crowding of the local environment that results from expansion could facilitate strategies that have been proposed for multiplexed RNA readout 17 19 based upon sequential hybridization with multiple probe sets.
  • Such re-embedded samples exhibited similar expansion factors as non-re-embedded samples (i.e., ⁇ 3 x), and were robust to multiple wash-stain cycles as assessed by repeated application of the same probe set (Fig. 2A, Figs.
  • ExM allows for facile super-resolution imaging of thick 3-D specimens such as brain tissue on conventional microscopy hardware 1 .
  • ExFISH was applied to samples of Thyl-YFP mouse brain tissue 21 , using the YFP protein to delineate neural morphology (Fig. 3A, 3B). Endogenous YFP protein was anchored to the polyacrylate gel via AcX using the proExM protocol 9 , and RNA anchored via LabelX. Since smFISH yields signals too dim to visualize in intact tissues using confocal imaging, the previously described technique of hybridization chain reaction (HCR) 5 was applied, in particular the next-generation DNA HCR amplifier architecture 6 (schematic in Fig. 10).
  • HCR hybridization chain reaction
  • mRNAs for YFP (Fig. 3C) and glutamic acid decarboxylase 1 Gadl (Fig. 3D) were easily visualized using a widefield microscope, with YFP mRNA well localized to YFP- fluorescing cells (Fig. 3E), and Gadl mRNA localized to a population of cells with characteristic arrangement throughout specific layers of the cortex and hippocampus 22 .
  • ExM enables super-resolution imaging on diffraction limited microscopes, which can be scaled to very fast imaging speeds 23 , we used a commercially available lightsheet microscope on a Thy 1 -YFP brain slice to enable visualization of multiple transcripts, with single molecule precision, throughout a volume of -575 ⁇ ⁇ 575 ⁇ ⁇ 160 ⁇ thick in just 3 hours ( ⁇ 6 10 10 voxels in 3 colors; Fig. 12A-C).
  • HCR amplifies a target binding event into a bright fluorescent signal (Fig. 10).
  • a stringent method for assessing detection accuracy is to label individual RNAs with different probe sets bearing different colors 24 25 , which shows that 50-80% of mRNAs thus targeted will be doubly labeled, when assessed in cell culture; a 50% co-localization is interpreted as Vo ) ⁇ 70% detection efficiency (assuming probe independence); this is a lower bound as it excludes false positives.
  • pairs of probe sets targeting the same transcript with different initiators were delivered. This scheme results in amplified fluorescent signals of two different colors from the same target (Fig 13A-B), giving a measure of the hybridization efficiency.
  • a probe set was delivered against a missense probe (Dlg4 reversed, Fig. 3G(i-ii)) as well as a nonexistent transcript (mCherry, Table 3), using Thy 1- YFP mouse brain samples, and found a low but nonzero spatial density of dim, yet amplified, puncta (1 per 61 ⁇ 3 in unexpanded coordinates, Dlg4 reversed; 1 per 48 ⁇ 3 , mCherry). Essentially zero of these puncta exhibited co-localization (0/1 ,209 spots, Dlg4 reversed; 4/1 ,540 spots mCherry).
  • Two-color HCR ExFISH was used against mRNAs to image their position within cellular compartments such as dendritic spines, which require nanoscale resolution for accurate identification or segmentation.
  • the Dlg4 mRNA was probed, which encodes the prominent postsynaptic scaffolding protein PSD-95, and which is known to be dendritically enriched 7 .
  • a degree of co-localization (53%, 5,174/9,795 spots) was obtained, suggesting a high detection efficiency, 73% (Fig. 31).
  • the mRNA was also probed for Camk2a, finding a detection efficiency of 78% (co-localization, 61%, 8,799/14,440 spots, Fig. 13D-E).
  • mRNAs can be low copy number
  • the ability to map mRNAs at synapses throughout neuronal arbors may be useful for a diversity of questions in neuroscience ranging from plasticity to development to degeneration.
  • RNA retention before versus after expansion was validated, finding excellent yield, and de-crowding of RNAs for more accurate RNA counts and localization.
  • the anchoring was robust enough to support serial smFISH, including repeated washing and probe hybridization steps, and multiplexed readout of RNA identity and location, implying that using probes designed according to specific coding strategies 17 19 would support combinatorial multiplexing, in which each additional cycle yields exponentially more transcript information.
  • the covalent anchoring of RNA to the ExM gel may also support enzymatic reactions to be performed in expanded samples - such as reverse transcription, rolling circle amplification (RCA), fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) 27 , and other strategies for transcriptomic readout or SNP detection 28 , within intact samples.
  • ExM being a physical form of magnification, enables nanoscale resolution even on conventional diffraction limited microscopes.
  • Expanding samples makes them transparent and homogeneous in index of refraction, in part because of the volumetric dilution, and in part because of washout of non-anchored components 1 .
  • strategies combining ExM with fast diffraction limited methods like lightsheet microscopy 23 may result in "best of both worlds" performance metrics: the voxel sizes of classical super-resolution methods, but the voxel acquisition rates of increasingly fast diffraction limited microscopes 1 .
  • the de- crowding of RNAs enables another key advantage: reducing the effective size of the self- assembled amplification product of HCR, which were applied here, following the protocols of refs.
  • HCR FISH 29 to enable nanoscale resolution visualization of RNA in intact tissues (a paper conducted in parallel has also recently performed single molecule HCR FISH 29 ).
  • the lower packing density of amplicons facilitates the imaging of more transcripts per experiment 19 with nanoscale precision.
  • Other methods of achieving brighter signals may be possible. For example, brighter fluorophores such as quantum dots 30 or bottlebrush fluorophores 1 could obviate the need for signal amplification, in principle.
  • the expanded state may enable better delivery of these and other bulky fluorophores into samples.
  • amplification strategies may be possible as well, including enzymatic (e.g., RCA 28 , tyramide amplification 22 , HRP amplification) as well as nonenzymatic (e.g., branched DNA) methods, although reaction efficiency and diffusion of reagents into the sample must be considered.
  • enzymatic e.g., RCA 28 , tyramide amplification 22 , HRP amplification
  • nonenzymatic e.g., branched DNA
  • ExFISH may find many uses in neuroscience and other biological fields.
  • RNA is known to be trafficked to specific synapses as a function of local synaptic activity 32 and intron content 33 , and locally translated 7 ' 34 35 , and the presence and translation of axonal RNAs remains under investigation 36 .
  • this method can be used for transcriptomic profiling of neuronal cell-types in situ, as well as for the super-resolved characterization of neuronal connectivity and synaptic organization in intact brain circuits, key for an integrative understanding of the mechanisms underlying neural circuit function and dysfunction. More broadly, visualizing RNAs within cells, and their relationship with RNA processing and trafficking machinery, may reveal new insights throughout biology and medicine.
  • YFP B1 11 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATggcg Bl aagcactgcaggcc
  • YFP Bl 28 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATtgttct Bl gctggtagtggt
  • Gadl 21 TTGAAAAATCGAGGGTGACCTGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2
  • Gadl 22 CCAATGATATCCAAACCAGTAGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
  • Gadl 24 TCATATGTGAACATATTGGTATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • Gadl 26 TCTCTCATCTTCTTAAGAGTAAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • Gadl 27 TCTTTATTTGACCATCCAACGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • Gadl 28 GCTCCCCCAGGAGAAAATATCCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
  • Gadl 29 ATGATGCTGTACATATTGGATAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • Gadl 30 ACTTCTGGGAAGTACTTGTAACAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • Gadl 33 GCTTTCTTTATGGAATAGTGACAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • Gadl 34 TTGTCGGTTCCAAAGCCAAGCGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
  • Gadl 35 TCATTGCACTTTATCAAAATCAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • Gadl 36 TCTAAATCAGCCGGAATTATCTAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • Gadl 38 GCATTGACATAAAGGGGAACATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
  • Gadl 39 CCGTAAACAGTCGTGCCTGCGGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • Gadl 40 TCCGCAATTTCCTGGATTGGATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • Gadl 41 CAAAGGTTGTATTTCTCACATAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC Gadl 42 CCACCACCCCAGGCAGCATCCAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • Gadl 44 TTGGCCCTTTCTATGCCGCTGAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • Gadl 45 TTGTGAGGGTTCCAGGTGACTGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • Gadl 46 GCAGAGCACTGGAGCAGCACGCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
  • Gadl 47 ATACCCTTTTCCTTGACCAGAAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • Gadl 48 CCTGCACACATCTGGTTGCATCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • HCR 27 aaagagcctcagggc
  • HCR 33 aatgcctgggtaca
  • HCR 41 cttgcggtgcacga Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTtagaagca Bl HCR 41 cttgcggtgcacga
  • DLG4 Bl 12 AACAGGATGCTGTCGTTGACCCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
  • DLG4 Bl 14 AGGGCCTCCACTGCAGCTGAATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
  • DLG4 B1 16 GCTGGGGGTTTCCGGCGCATGAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
  • DLG4 B1 18 CTGAAGCCAAGTCCTTTAGGCCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • DLG4 Bl 20 ACGTAGATGCTATTATCTCCAGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • DLG4 Bl 24 TCCTCATGCATGACATCCTCTAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • DLG4 Bl 26 TTGGCCACCTTTAGGTACACAAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • DLG4 Bl 30 TCGGTGCCCAAGTAGCTGCTATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
  • DLG4 B2 1 TCTTCATCTTGGTAGCGGTATTAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCg B2
  • DLG4 B2 3 GGAGAATTGGCCTGGTTGGGGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2
  • DLG4 B2 7 AGACCTGAGTTACCCCTTTCCAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • DLG4 B2 11 AGGCGGCCATCCTGGGCTGCAGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2
  • DLG4 B2 13 GTCACCTCCCGGACATCCACTTAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • DLG4 B2 15 TAGAGGCGAACGATGGAACCCGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2
  • DLG4 B2 19 ATGTGCTGGTTCCCAACGCCCCAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • DLG4 B2 21 TGGGCAGCGCCTCCTTCGATGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • DLG4 B2 23 CCCACACTGTTGACCGCCAGGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • DLG4 B2 25 TCATATGTGTTCTTCAGGGCTGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • DLG4 B2 27 TAGCTGTCACTCAGGTAGGCATAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACGGG Bl 1 TGCAGGTGATGGTAGCCA
  • Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 2 CTCAAAGAGCTGGTACTCTT
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAACAG Bl 3 AGAAGGCTCCCTTTCCCA
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACGGG Bl 7 CCTCACGCTCCAGCTTCT
  • Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAT B2 8 ATTGGGGTGCTTCAACAAGC
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGAGA Bl 9 TGCTGTCATGGAGTCGGA
  • Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 10 GAAGAT AAGGT AGTGGTGC C
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAAACA Bl 11 GTTCCCCACCAGTAACCA
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACGAT Bl 15 GCACCACCCCCATCTGGT
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAACAG Bl 17 CAGCGCCCTTGAGCTTCG Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 18 TATGGCCAGGCCAAAGTCTG
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACATG Bl 19 CCTGCTGCTCCCCCTCCA
  • Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAG B2 20 GTATCCAGGTGTCCCTGCGA
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAATCCTT Bl 21 CCTCAGCACTTCTGGGG
  • Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAGC B2 22 CCACAGGTCCACGGGCTTCC
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAAAGA Bl 23 TATACAGGATGACGCCAC
  • Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 24 ATCCCAGAACGGGGGATACC
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGGGG Bl 27 TGACGGTGTCCCATTCTG
  • Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAG B2 28 CATCTTATTGATCAGATCCT
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAATGC Bl 29 GTTTGGAC GGGTTGATGG
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGCCA Bl 31 CGGTGGAGCGGTGCGAGA
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGAGA Bl 35 AGTTCCTGGTGGCCAGCA
  • Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGACT Bl 41 CAAAGTCTCCATTGCTTA Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAGT B2
  • Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAT B2
  • Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAT B2
  • mCherry 2C cagtttgagtaccttcatatggAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCT B2
  • mCherry 2C gtaattgaactggttttttagcAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCTC B2 20 ATCAATCATC
  • mCherry 2C atttatataattcatccataccAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCTC B2 24 ATCAATCATC
  • R 12 cagttgttgatcttgtccct usf2 withUT
  • HeLa (ATCC CCL-2) cells and HEK293-FT cells were cultured on Nunc Lab-Tek II Chambered Coverglass (Thermo Scientific) in D10 medium (Cellgro) supplemented with 10% FBS (Invitrogen), 1 % penicillin/streptomycin (Cellgro), and 1 % sodium pyruvate (BioWhittaker).
  • Cells were authenticated by the manufacturer and tested for mycoplasma contamination to their standard levels of stringency, and were here used because they are common cell lines for testing new tools.
  • Cultured cells were washed once with DPBS (Cellgro), fixed with 10% formalin for 10 mins, and washed twice with l x PBS. Fixed cells were then stored in 70% Ethanol at 4°C until use.
  • Acryloyl-X, SE (6-((acryloyl)amino)hexanoic acid, succinimidyl ester, here abbreviated AcX; Thermo-Fisher) was resuspended in anhydrous DMSO at a concentration of 10 mg/mL, aliquoted and stored frozen in a desiccated environment.
  • LABEL-IT ® Amine Modifying Reagent (Minis Bio, LLC) was resuspended in the provided Minis Reconstitution Solution at Img/mi and stored frozen in a desiccated environment.
  • PBS phosphate buffered saline
  • MOPS buffer 20 mM MOPS pH 7.7
  • YFP retention slices were treated with 0.05 mg/mL AcX in PBS for >6 hours @ RT.
  • RNA FISH probes in hybridization buffer (10% formamide, 10% dextran sulfate, 2x SSC) overnight at 37 °C. Following hybridization, samples were washed twice with wash buffer, 30mins per wash, and washed once with 1 ⁇ PBS. Imaging was performed in l x PBS.
  • smFISH probe sets targeting the human transcripts for TFRC, ACTB, GAPDH, XIST, and 5' portion of NEATl were ordered from Stellans with Quasar 570 dye.
  • Probe sets against UBC, EEF2, USF2, TOP2A and full length NEA Tl were synthesized, conjugated to fluorophores, and subsequently purified by HPLC as described previously 37 .
  • Oligonucleotide sequences for probe sets and accession numbers can be found in Table 4. Gelation, Digestion and Expansion;
  • Monomer solution (1 ⁇ PBS, 2 M NaCl, 8.625% (w/w) sodium acrylate, 2.5% (w/w) acrylamide, 0.15% (w/w) N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide) was mixed, frozen in aliquots, and thawed before use. Monomer solution was cooled to 4°C before use.
  • VA-044 For gelling cultured cells treated with LabelX, a concentrated stock of VA-044 (25% w/w, chosen instead of the Ammonium persulfate (APS)/Tetramethylethylenediamine (TEMED) of the original ExM protocol 1 because APS/TEMED resulted in autofluorescence that was small in magnitude but appreciable in the context of smFISH) was added to the monomer solution to a final concentration of 0.5% (w/w) and degassed in 200 ⁇ aliquots for 15 mins. Cells were briefly incubated with the monomer solution plus VA-044 and transferred to a humidified chamber. Subsequently, the humidified chamber was purged with nitrogen gas.
  • APS Ammonium persulfate
  • TEMED Tetramethylethylenediamine
  • the humidified chamber was transferred to a 60 °C incubator for two hours.
  • gelation was performed as in the original ExM protocol (since, with HCR amplification, the slight autofluorescence of APS/TEMED was negligible).
  • Gelled cultured cells and brain slices were digested with Proteinase K (New England Biolabs) diluted 1 : 100 to 8 units/mL in digestion buffer (50 mM Tris (pH 8), 1 mM EDTA, 0.5% Triton X-100, 500 mM NaCl) and digestion was carried out overnight at 37 °C.
  • the gels expand slightly in the high osmolarity digestion buffer ( ⁇ 1.5 x). After digestion, gels were stored in 1 ⁇ PBS until use and expansion was carried out as previously described.
  • Expanded gels were incubated with wash buffer (10% formamide, 2 SSC) for 30 mins at room temperature and hybridized with RNA FISH probes in hybridization buffer (10% formamide, 10% dextran sulfate, 2 SSC) overnight at 37 °C. Following hybridization, samples were washed twice with wash buffer, 30 minutes per wash, and washed once with 1 ⁇ PBS for another 30 mins. Imaging was performed in 1 ⁇ PBS.
  • Gels are placed on top of a bind-silane treated (see below) coverslip or glass bottom plate with a coverslip placed on top of the gels before moving into a container and purged with nitrogen.
  • the container is moved to a 37 °C incubator for gelation for 1.5 hours.
  • Re-embeded staining of gels were performed with exact conditions as described above for expanded gels, except post-hybridization washes were changed to twice with wash buffer (10% formamide), 60 minutes per wash.
  • Probes were removed for multiple rounds of hybridization via treatment with DNAse I or 100% formamide.
  • DNAse I samples were treated with DNAse I at 0.5 ⁇ / ⁇ for 6 hours at RT.
  • formamide stripping samples were treated with 100% formamide at 6 hours at 37C.
  • Bind-Silane a silanization reagent which incorporates acryloyl groups onto the surface of glass to perform in free radical polymerization. Briefly, 5 of Bind-Silane reagent was diluted into 8 mL of ethanol, 1.8 mL of ddFhO and 200 of acetic acid. Coverslips and glass bottom 24 well plates were washed with ddFhO followed by 100% ethanol, followed by the diluted Bind-Silane reagent. After a brief wash with the diluted Bind-Silane reagent, the cover-slip was dried, then washed with 100% ethanol, and then dried again. Coverslips were prepared immediately before use.
  • Probe sequences and accession numbers for mRNA targets can be found in Table 4. Probes were designed for HCR-FISH by tiling the CDS of mRNA targets with 22-mer oligos spaced by 3-7 bases. HCR initiators were appended to tiled sequences via a 2 base spacer (AA). For 2 color probe-sets, even and odd tiled probes were assigned different HCR- initiators to allow for amplification in different color channel.
  • filter cubes for imaging smFISH probes labeled with fiuorophores, the following filter cubes (Semrock, Rochester, NY) were used: Alexa 488, GFP-1828A-NTE-ZERO; Quasar 570, LF561 -B-000; Alexa 594, FITC/TXRED-2X-B-NTE; Atto 647N, Cy5-4040C-000.
  • Fig. 3A-E For epifluorescence imaging of brain sections before and after expansion (Fig. 3A-E) and to quantify expansion factors of tissue slices specimens were imaged on a Nikon Ti-E epifluorescence microscope with a 4* 0.2 NA air objective, a SPECTRA X light engine (Lumencor), and a 5.5 Zyla sCMOS camera (Andor), controlled by NIS-Elements AR software.
  • Post-expansion confocal imaging of expanded brain tissue was performed on an Andor spinning disk (CSU-X1 Yokogawa) confocal system with a 40 ⁇ 1.15 NA water obj ective (Fig. 3F-K, Fig. 13A-G) on a Nikon TI-E microscope body.
  • GFP was excited with a 488 nm laser, with 525/40 emission filter.
  • Alexa 546 HCR amplicons were excited with a 561 nm laser with 607/36 emission filter.
  • Alexa 647 amplicons were excited with a 640 nm laser with 685/40 emission filter.
  • Gels were expanded in with 3 washes, 15 minutes each of 0.05 x SSC.
  • the expansion factor can be controlled with the salt concentration. It was found that 0.05 x SSC gives 3 x expansion, while still giving enough salt for hybridization stability.
  • gels were placed in glass bottom 6 well plates with all excess liquid removed. If needed, liquid low melt agarose (2% w/w) was pipetted around the gel and allowed to solidify, to encase the gels before imaging.
  • Lightsheet imaging was performed on a Zeiss Z.1 lightsheet microscope. Briefly, the sample was fixed on a custom-made plastic holder using super glue and mounted on the freely rotating stage of the Z.1 lightsheet. Lightsheets were generated by two illumination obj ectives (5 x, NA 0.1), and the fluorescence signal detected by a 20x water immersion obj ective (NA 1.0). Both lightsheets were used for data collection. The image volume dimensions of a single tile were 1400* 1400* 1057 pixels, with a voxel size of 227 nm laterally and 469 nm axially. The laserlines used for excitation were 488 nm, 561 nm and 638 nm.
  • the individual laser transmissions were set to 5%, with the maximum output of 50 mW (488 nm and 561 nm) and 75 mW (638 nm).
  • Optical filters used to separate and clean the fluorescence response included a Chroma T5601pxr as a dichroic, and a Chroma 59001m for GFP and 59007m for Alexa 546 and Alexa 647.
  • Two PCO.Edge 5.5m sCMOS cameras were used to capture two fluorescence channels simultaneously. Tiled datasets were taken with the Zeiss ZEN Software, and subsequently merged and processed with FIJI, Arivis Vision4D and Bitplane Imaris.
  • RNA puncta were detected via a custom 3D spot counting Matlab code developed by the Raj lab; complete source code and instructions can be found at
  • HCR amplification commences upon the addition of two HCR metastable amplifier hairpins.
  • B2H1T and B2H2 see below for sequence
  • B2H1T bears a 6bp toe-hold for strand displacement.
  • To initiate HCR amplification aliquots of these amplifiers at 3 ⁇ were snap-cooled by heating to 95 °C for 90 seconds, and leaving to cool at room temperature for 30 mins. Gelled samples were then incubated with HCR hairpins diluted to 60 nM in amplification buffer for 3hrs at room temperature. After amplification, gels were washed with 5* SSCT (5 x SSC, 0.1% Tween 20) twice with one hour per wash. Subsequently, HCR reversal was initiated by the addition of a displacement strand (see below for sequence) at 200 nM in 5* SSCT.
  • RNAscope A novel in situ RNA analysis platform for formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues. J. Mol. Diagnostics 14, 22-29 (2012).
  • NEAT1 RNA is essential for the structure of paraspeckles. Mol. Cell 33, 717-26 (2009).

Abstract

The invention enables in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment of nucleic acids to be conducted in biological specimens that have been physically expanded. The invention leverages the techniques for expansion microscopy (ExM) to provide new methods for in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment of nucleic in a new process referred to herein as "expansion fluorescent in situ hybridization" (ExFISH).

Description

NANOSCALE IMAGING OF PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS VIA EXPANSION
MICROSCOPY
RELATED APPLICATION
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Serial No.
62/202,421, filed August 7, 2015, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
This invention was made with government support under 5-DP1-NS087724 awarded by NIH, Hertz Foundation, ODGE Lemelson & Viterbi, 5-DP1-N S087724 awarded by NIH and NSF. The government has certain rights in the invention.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Nanoscale-resolution imaging of RNA throughout cells, tissues, and organs is key for an understanding of local RNA processing, mapping structural roles of RNA, and defining cell types and states. However, it has remained difficult to image RNA in intact tissues with the nanoscale precision required to pinpoint associations with cellular compartments or proteins important for RNA function.
Expansion microscopy (ExM) enables imaging of thick preserved specimens with -70 nm lateral resolution. Using ExM the optical diffraction limit is circumvented by physically expanding a biological specimen before imaging, thus bringing sub-diffraction limited structures into the size range viewable by a conventional diffraction-limited microscope. ExM can image biological specimens at the voxel rates of a diffraction limited microscope, but with the voxel sizes of a super-resolution microscope. Expanded samples are transparent, and index-matched to water, as the expanded material is >99% water. The original ExM protocol worked by labeling biomolecules of interest with a gel-anchorable fluorophore. Then, a swellable polyelectrolyte gel was synthesized in the sample, so that it incorporated the labels. Finally, the sample was treated with a nonspecific protease to homogenize its mechanical properties, followed by dialysis in water to mediate uniform physical expansion of the polymer-specimen composite. All of the chemicals required for ExM can be purchased except for the gel-anchorable label, which requires custom synthesis and raises the barrier for researchers to adopt the method. Another drawback of the ExM protocol is that genetically encoded fluorophores cannot be imaged without antibody labeling. Additionally, ExM was unable to retain native proteins in the gel and used custom made reagents not widely available. Thus, it would be desirable to leverage ExM to devise new methods for in situ retention and imaging of nucleic acids and proteins within a sample. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A small molecule linker is synthesized that enables RNA to be covalently attached to the ExM gel. This method, referred to as ExFISH, enables RNA fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), which enables identification of transcripts in situ with single molecule precision. In RNA FISH, a set of fluorescent probes complementary to a target strand of mRNA are delivered2 . Single molecule FISH (smFISH) can be performed with multiple fluorophores delivered to a single mRNA via oligonucleotide probes4. In intact tissues, amplification strategies, such as hybridization chain reaction (HCR)5 6, and branched DNA amplification7'8, can enable a large number of fluorophores to be targeted to a single mRNA. ExFISH can support smFISH in cell culture, and HCR-amplified FISH in intact mouse brain tissues. ExFISH can reveal nanoscale structures of long non-coding RNAs (IncRNAs), as well as for localizing neural mRNAs to individual dendritic spines. ExFISH will be useful for a diversity of questions relating the structure and location of RNA to biological functions.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of preferred embodiments of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to the same parts throughout the different views. The drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the invention.
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Fig. 1A-1I: Design and validation of ExFISH chemistry. (1A) Acryloyl-X SE (top left) is reacted to LABEL-IT® amine (top right) via NHS-ester chemistry to form LabelX (middle), which serves to make RNA gel-anchorable by alkylating its bases (e.g., the N7 position of guanines) (bottom). (IB) Workflow for ExFISH: biological specimens are treated with LabelX (left), which enables RNA to be anchored to the ExM gel (middle). Anchored RNA can be probed via hybridization (right), after gelation, digestion, and expansion. (1C) smFISH image ofACTB before expansion. Inset shows zoomed-in region, highlighting transcription sites in nucleus. (ID) As in (1C), using ExFISH. (IE) smFISH counts before versus after expansion for seven different transcripts (n = 59 cells; each symbol represents one cell). (IF) smFISH image of XIST long non-coding RNA (IncRNA) in the nucleus of a HEK293 cell before expansion (white line denotes nuclear envelope in IF- 1H). (1G) As in (IF), using ExFISH. (1H) smFISH image before expansion (top), and using ExFISH
(bottom), of NEAT1 IncRNA in the nucleus of a HeLa cell. Magenta and green indicate probesets binding to different parts of the 5' (1 -3756 nts οΐΝΕΑΤΙ (see Methods). (II) Insets showing a NEATl cluster (boxed region of (1H)) with smFISH (left) and ExFISH (right). Scale bars (white, in pre-expansion units; blue scale bars are divided by the expansion factor noted))): (1C, ID) 10 μηι (expansion factor, 3.3x), inset 2 μηι; (IF, 1 G) 2 μηι (3.3x), Z scale represented by color coding in pre-expansion units; (1H) 2 μηι (3.3 x); (II) 200 nm (3.3 x).
Fig. 2A-2E: Serially hybridized and multiplexed ExFISH. (2A) Widefield fluorescence image of ExFISH targeting GAPDH. (2B) Boxed region of (2A), showing 5 repeated re-stainings following probe removal (see Methods); lower right panel, overlay of the 5 images (with each a different color, red, green, blue, magenta, yellow), showing co- localization. (2C) ExFISH RNA counts for each round, normalized to the round 1 count; plotted is mean + standard error; n = 3 regions of (2A). (2D) Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of ExFISH across the five rounds of staining of (2A), computed as the mean puncta brightness divided by the standard deviation of the background. (2E) Composite image showing ExFISH with serially delivered probes against six RNA targets in a cultured HeLa cell (raw images in Fig. 9); colors are as follows: NEAT1, blue; EEF2, orange; GAPDH, yellow;
ACTB, purple; UBC, green; USF2, light blue. Scale bars (expanded coordinates): (2A) 20 μηι; (2B) 10 μηι; (2E) 20 μηι.
Fig. 3A-3K: Nanoscale imaging of RNA in mammalian brain. (3 A) Widefield fluorescence image of Thy l-YFP mouse brain. (3B) Post-expansion widefield image of (3 A). (3C) Widefield fluorescence showing HCR-ExFISH of YFP mRNA in the sample of (3B). (3D) As in (3C), but for Gadl mRNA. (3E) Composite of (3B-3D), highlighting distribution of Gadl versus Thy l-YFP mRNAs. (3F) Confocal image of mouse hippocampal tissue from (e) showing single RNA puncta. Inset, one plane of the boxed region (red, YFP protein; cyan, YFP mRNA; magenta, Gadl mRNA). (3G(i)) Confocal image and (3G(ii)) processed image of HCR-ExFISH using a missense Dlg4 probe, in Thy l -YFP mouse tissue (green, YFP protein). The raw image (3G(i)) uses alternating probes in two colors (red, Dlg4 missense even; blue, Dlg4 missense odd). The processed image (3G(ii)) shows zero co-localized spots (magenta). (3H, 31) As in (3G(i) and 3G(ii)), but for HCR-ExFISH targeting Actb in Thy l- YFP mouse brain (green, YFP protein; red, Actb even, and blue, Actb odd in (3H(i)); co- localized spots in magenta (3H(ii))). (31) Confocal image of hippocampal tissue showing co- localized Dlg4 puncta (magenta) overlaid on YFP (green). (3 J(i), 3 J(ii)) Two representative examples of dendrites with Dlg4 mRNA localized to spines (arrows). (3K(i), 3K(ii)) As in (3J), but with HCR-ExFISH of Camk2a mRNA showing transcripts in dendritic spines and processes. Scale bars (white, in pre-expansion units; blue scale bars are divided by the expansion factor noted): (3 A) 500 μηι; (3B-3E) 500 μηι (expansion factor 2.9x); (3F) 50 μηι (2.9X), inset 10 μηι; (3G-3I) 10 μηι (3x); (3 J, 3K) 2 μηι (3x). (3E, 31) maximum-intensity projection (MIP) 27 μηι thick (pre-expanded units); (3G, 3H, 3J, 3K) MIPs -1.6 μηι thick.
Fig. 4A-4B: (4A) Epi-fluorescence image of single molecule FISH (smFISH) against
GAPDH on HeLa cells expanded without LabelX treatment. (4B) Epi-fluorescence image of smFISH performed against GAPDH on expanded HeLa cells treated with LabelX. Images are maximum intensity projections of 3-D stacks. Nuclei stained with DAPI (shown in blue). Scale bars: 20 μηι (post-expanded units).
Fig. 5A-5E: To assess the effect of LabelX on fluorescent in situ hybridization, fixed
HeLa cells were stained with smFISH probe-sets, followed by DNAse I treatment to remove the staining. The cells were then treated with LabelX and stained again with the same smFISH probe-sets. (5A) UBC staining before LabelX treatment and (5B) UBC staining after probe removal and LabelX treatment. (5C) EEF2 staining before LabelX treatment. (5D) EEF2 staining after probe removal and LabelX treatment. (5E) Comparison of smFISH spots counted for individual cells before LabelX, and after probe removal and application of LabelX. The number of RNA molecules detected in a given cell was quantified using an automated spot counting algorithm (n=7 cells for each bar). Plotted are mean + standard error; no significant difference in spot counts before vs after LabelX (p > 0.5 for before vs. after for UBC, p > 0.5 for before vs. after for EEF2; t-test, unpaired, two-tailed). Images in 5A-5D are maximum intensity projections of 3-D stacks; scale bars: 10 μιτι (pre-expanded units).
Fig. 6A-6G: Different RNA species spanning 3 orders of magnitude in abundance were detected via single molecule RNA fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) in HeLa cells before and after ExM with LabelX treatment (shown in Fig. IE). (1A) Ratio of FISH spots detected after expansion to spots detected before expansion for single cells. Representative before vs. after ExFISH images shown: (1B,1C) TFRC; (1D,1E) GAPDH; (IF, 1G) ACTB. Scale bars, 10 μιτι (pre-expanded units) in IB, ID, IF; 1C, IE, 1G, expanded physical size 21 μιτι (imaged in PBS). Fig. 7A-7E: (7A) Pre-expansion widefield image of a cultured HeLa cell stained with DAPI to visualize the nucleus (top panel) and smFISH probes against ACTB (bottom panel). (7B) Post-expansion widefield image of the same cell as in (a). (7C) Pre-expansion widefield image of LabelX treated Thyl-YFP brain slice (left panel, YFP protein) stained with DAPI (right panel) (MIP, 4 μιτι z-depth). (7D) Post-expansion image of the same region as in (c) (MIP, 12 μιτι). (7E) Ratio of the expansion factor of cell bodies for individual cells to the expansion factor of their respective nuclei. smFISH stain is used to outline the boundaries of the cell bodies of cultured cells while the endogenous YFP protein is used to demarcate the cell bodies of neurons in Thyl-YFP brain slices. Plotted are mean ± standard error. The ratio for both cultured cells and brain slices did not significantly deviate from one (p >0.05 for both, 1 -sample t-test; n = 6, cultured HeLa cells; n = 7, cells in 1 brain slice). Scale bars, 10 μιτι.
Fig. 8A-8D: (8A) Representative FISH image of TOP2A in a single HeLa cell before expansion (MIP of cell thickness). (8B) ExFISH image of cell in (8A) taken with the same optical parameters. (8C) Merged image of (8A) and (8B) (red and green for before and after expansion respectively); distance measurements between pairs of mRNA spots before (L, red line) and after (L', green line; note that these lines overlap nearly completely) expansion were used to quantify expansion isotropy. (8D) Mean of the absolute value of the measurement error (i.e., |L-L'|) plotted against measurement length (L) for all pairs of mRNA spots (mean ± standard deviation, N = 4 samples, 6.8 x 105 measurements). Scale bars: white, 10 μιτι pre- expansion units; blue, white scale bar divided by expansion factor. Orange line indicates diffraction limit of the microscope used (see methods for details).
Fig. 9A-9B: (9A) Five consecutive widefield fluorescence images (top to bottom, then left to right) of GAPDH, applied to the cell of Fig. 2a. (9B) Widefield fluorescence images showing ExFISH with serially delivered probes against six RNA targets (right to left, then top to bottom: NEAT1, EEF2, ACTB, UBC, GAPDH, and USF2) in a cultured HeLa cell (raw images of composite shown in Fig. 2E). Scale bars: 20 μιτι in expanded units.
Fig. 10: FISH probes bearing HCR initiators are hybridized to a target mRNA. During amplification, metastable DNA hairpins bearing fluorophores assemble into polymer chains onto the initiators, thus amplifying signal downstream of the FISH probe hybridization event.
Fig. 11A-11C: (11 A) Widefield image of a LabelX treated Thyl-YFP brain slice (YFP protein, green) stained with probes against YFP (red) and Gadl (magenta) followed by HCR amplification. Probes against YFP transcripts were amplified with the Bl amplifier set (see Methods) while probes against Gadl transcripts were amplified with the B2 amplifier set (MIP, 59 μιη). (11B) Widefield image of LabelX treated Thy 1 -YFP brain slice (YFP protein, green) treated with the same HCR amplifiers as in (a) (namely Bl (red) and B2 (magenta)) without the addition of probes (MIP, 50 μιτι). (11C) HCR spots detected per volume of expanded sample. Analysis was performed on samples which were either treated or not treated with FISH probes followed by HCR amplification. An automated spot counting algorithm was used to count HCR spots. The endogenous YFP protein was used to delineate regions used for the analysis. Plotted are mean ± standard error. HCR spot counts are significantly different in the presence of probes than without probes (p <0.05 for both Bl and B2 amplifier sets, Welch's t-test; n=4 fields of view each). Scale bars: 50 μιτι.
Fig. 12A-12C: (12A) Volume rendering of Thyl-YFP (green) brain tissue acquired by lightsheet microscopy with HCR-ExFISH targeting YFP (red) and Gadl (blue) mRNA. (12B) A maximum intensity projection (~8 μιτι in Z) of a small subsection of the volume, showing the high resolution of imaging and single molecule localization of imaging expanded specimens with lightsheet imaging (scale bar: 10 μιτι, in pre-expansion units, expansion factor, 3x). (12C) Zoom in of the volume rendering in (12A) (scale bar: 20 μιτι, in pre- expansion units, 3x).
Fig. 13A-13K: (13A) Schematic showing two color amplification of the same target. A transcript of interest is targeted by probes against alternating parts of the sequence, and bearing two different HCR initiators, allowing for amplification in two colors. (13B)
Confocal image showing FISH staining with HCR amplification against the Camk2a transcript in two colors (red and blue; YFP fluorescence shown in green). (13C) The result of an automated two-color spot co-localization analysis performed on the data set shown in (13B). Each purple spot represents a positive co-localization identified by the algorithm and overlaid on the confocal image of YFP. (13D, 13E) Zoom in of dendrites showing two color FISH staining with HCR amplification against Camk2a transcripts. (13F, 13G) As in (13D, 13E) but against Dlg4 transcripts. Top row shows the raw two color staining data
corresponding to the bottom row showing co-localized spots identified by the automated algorithm (replicated from Fig. 3J(i-ii) and Fig. 3K(i-ii) for convenience). Scale bars: (13B, 13C) 10 μιη (3x); (13D-13G) 2 μιη (3 χ). (13B-13G) are MIP of -1.6 μιη thickness in unexpanded coordinates.
Fig. 14A-14B: (14A) Schematic for HCR amplification and reversal. HCR amplification is initiated with custom-made HCR hairpins bearing toe-holds for toe-hold mediated strand displacement. After amplification, the addition of a disassembling strand initiates the disassembly of the HCR polymers via strand displacement. (14B) ExFISH- treated Thyl-YFP brain slice (YFP in blue) is shown stained with YFP FISH probes bearing HCR initiators and amplified with custom made HCR hairpins bearing toe-holds for strand displacement (green dots). The different panels show the state of HCR reversal at different times after the addition of strands to initiate the disassembly of the HCR polymers. Scale bars: 20 μιτι (in post-expansion units).
Fig. 15: Dependence of RNA FISH spot intensity on degree of expansion and concentration of LabelX. HeLa cells, treated with LabelX diluted to different final concentrations of Label-It Amine concentration, were expanded and stained with a probe-set against GAPDH. After staining, the gelled samples were expanded in l x PBS (~2x expansion ratio) and water (~4x expansion ratio) and the spot intensity for the different samples was quantified. Plotted are mean + standard error; N = 6 cells.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The present invention provides for the anchoring of nucleic acids into the swellable gel of Expansion Microscopy (ExM), both for in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment, as well as to enable nucleic acid barcodes to be used to identify essentially arbitrary numbers of molecules. International patent application serial number PCT/US 15/16788, which is incorporated herein by reference, teaches that the resolution of conventional microscopy can be increased by physically expanding specimens, a process termed 'expansion microscopy' (ExM). In short, biological specimens are embedded in a swellable gel material, subjected to a treatment to disrupt native biological networks, and then expanded. The advantages to ExM include tissue clearing, resolution improvement, and higher tolerance to sectioning error due to the specimen expansion in the z-axis.
in ExM, fluorophores were anchored directly to the polymer gel, so that proteins could be visualized; however, RNA molecules were not preserved in the gel and are instead lost during the expansion process. Thus, there was no way to probe the transcriptomic information of the sample
In one embodiment, the invention provides methods that covalently anchor native nucleic acid molecules and antibody barcodes to the expandable gel matrix of expansion microscopy (ExM), Nucleic acids are modified using a small molecule tag, which lets them participate in free radical polymerization during gelling. During the gel formation step, any biomolecules bearing reactive groups are anchored into the gel and isotropically separated as the gel expands. In one embodiment, the invention provides a nucleic acid reactive reagent that also carries a chemical group that can get incorporated into the gel. After treatment of samples with this reagent, nucleic acids, including DNA and RNA, are covalently labeled with this reagent. Afterwards, during gel formation, labeled nucleic acids are covalently incorporated into the gel. Using such anchored nucleic acids, the information in the nucleic acid can be used as a barcode, e.g. barcoded antibodies can be used for multiplexed in situ staining for ExM, enabling "arbitrary -color" imaging.
By covalently anchoring the nucleic acids, existing technologies for reading out RNA and DNA can be applied to the expanded context. These strategies include single molecule FISH (Imaging individual mRN A molecules using multiple singly labeled probes. Nature Methods, 2008 Oct: 5(10): 877-9), oligo-paint ("Versatile design and synthesis platform for visualizing genomes with Oligopamt FISH probes." PNAS 109.52 (2012): 21301-21306) and many other hybridization based readout strategies. Furthermore, the covalent anchoring allows for sequential hybridization, leading to various multiplexing strategies including serial, spectral, and temporal barcoding schemes. The present invention provides methods for labeling and staining with DNA-barcoded primary antibodies, allowing for an arbitrar ' number of protein tags to be utilized with ExM. This is a key step towards "infinite color" imaging, since previous the expansion microscopy method only enabled 3 -color imaging.
In a further embodiment, the invention provides a method for performing sequential hybridizations against nucleic acids covalently incorporated into an ExM gel. Firstly, buffer condition for hybridizing complementary oligonucleotides bearing fiuorophores to the nucleic acids in the ExM gel are provided. Second, the ExM gel is re-embedded in a polyacryiamide gel to minimize distortions resulting from changes in buffer. Third, chemical and enzymatic strategies for removing oligonucleotides hybridized to nucleic acids which are covalently anchored to the gel have been developed, which enables re-staining with the same or different oligonucleotides. Chemical strategies include using formamide and high temperatures to de-hybridize oligonucleotides forming duplexes with nucleic acids in the gel. Enzymatic strategies involve using endonucleases that specifically digest the oligonuetides which are hybridized to nucleic acids while leavin the nucleic acids anchored in the gel intact.
in a further embodime the inve tion provides for the multiplexed imaging of proteins and transcripts using Expansion Microscopy. First, a strategy to barcode primary antibodies with oligonucleotides by both covalently and non-covalently associating oligonucleotides with their target antibodies has been developed. While covalent attachment schemes involve reacting to amines and sugar chains found on antibodies, non-cova!ent attachment schemes use secondar - Fab fragments conjugated to oligonucleotide barcodes. Second, a set of conditions for performing immunostaining using these oligonucleotide barcoded primary antibodies has been developed. These conditions include unique buffer compositions for minimizing non-specific binding, as well as temperature ranges for obtaining adequate immunostaining. The oligonucleotides which are reacted to these antibodies possess a chemical group that can be incorporated into the ExM gel to gel formation. Therefore, during gel formation, these oligonucleotides are all anchored into the ExM gel while all proteins are degraded. In addition, a strategy for the multiplexed read out of the oligonucleotides and nucleic acids, including RNA and DNA, in the ExM gel using sequential hybridization has been developed. This approach consists of sequentially hybridizing complementary strands bearing iluorophores to each unique oligonucleotide or nucleic acid, one by one, serially. Finally, the set of capabilities offered by out technique enable exponential barcoding schemes demonstrated recently by a few groups. For instance, this approach allows for barcoding nucleic acids via temporal color barcodes or temporal binary barcodes
One embodiment of a method for in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment of target nucleic acids present in a biological sample comprises the steps of:
a) treating the biological sample with a small molecule linker capable of linking to at least one target nucleic acid and to a swellable material;
b) embedding the biological sample wherein the small molecule linker is bound to the at least one target nucleic acid in the biological sample and to the swellable material; c) subjecting the biological sample to a physical disruption method;
d) swelling the swellable material to form an expanded biological sample;
e) providing at least one oligonucleotide complementary to the at least one target nucleic acid, wherein the at least one oligonucleotide hybridizes to the at least one target nucleic acid; and
f) genomically or transcriptomically assessing the expanded biological sample.
In this and other methods, the small molecule linkers are attached to target nucleic acids via a chemical reactive group capable of covalently binding the target nucleic acid. The small molecule linker may be labeled and or the at least one oligonucleotide may be labeled.
In another embodiment, embedding the biological sample in a swellable material may comprise permeating the biological sample with a composition comprising precursors of a swellable polymer and forming a swellable polymer in situ. In another embodiment, the at least one target nucleic acid is anchored to the swellable material.
In another embodiment, the physical disruption method is an enzymatic digestion. In another embodiment of the just described method, the target nucleic acids are DNA and/or RNA.
In another embodiment, the expanded biological sample expresses one or more labeled target nucleic acids.
In another embodiment, the expanded sample may be buffered prior to providing at least one oligonucleotide. After buffering, the expanded sample may be re-embedded in a non-swellable material prior to genomically or transcriptically assessing the expanded biological sample. Buffering enables removal of the at least one oligonucleotide through chemical or enzymatic means. For example, formamide and high temperature could be used to chemically remove the at least one oligonucleotide while endonucleases that specifically digest the at least one oligonucleotide could accomplish the same task enzymatically. After buffering, serial or sequential genomic and transcript assessments may be performed on the same expanded sample by repeating the steps of removing the at least one oligonucleotide and providing either the same or different at least one oligonucleotide.
Methods
a. ExM-FISH and ExM FISH-HCR
Secondary antibodies were conjugated to DNA oligo barcodes bearing 5'acrydite and 3' amine via the Solulink commercial kit. After primary and secondary antibody staining, samples were gelled, digested, and expanded following ExM procedure. Following expansion, the gelled samples were re-embeded in a 4% polyacrylamide gel by incubating the expanded gel with acrylamide, bis-acrylamide, and radical initiators. To perform in situ hybridization, gelled samples were incubated with fluorescently labeled oligos and excess oligos were subsequently washed out. To perform in situ hybridization with Hybridization Chain Reaction (HCR) signal amplification, gelled samples were incubated with oligo probes bearing a complementary region to the antibody conjugated oligo barcodes and a site for HCR initiation. After washing out excess probes, HCR hairpins were washed in to initiate the amplification.
b. Primary-Fab antibody conjugation and staining
Fab Secondary antibodies were conjugated to DNA oligo barcodes bearing 5' acrydite and 3' amine via the Solulink commercial kit. To conjugate IgG primary antibodies with oligo tagged Fabs. Fabs were incubated with primary antibodies along with fluorescently labeled oligonucleotides complementary to the barcodes. Subsequently, excess fabs and oligos were removed using centrifugal spin filters.
Cultured HeLa cells were fixed with 4% formaldehyde. Subsequently, staining antibody mixture was prepared by mixing appropriate purified primary-fab conjugated in a blocking buffer containing dextran sulfate, normal donkey serum, and rabbit gamma globulin. Finally, fixed cells were incubated with the antibody mixture overnight and any excess was washed off. ExFISH; Design and Validation of RNA Anchoring Chemistry
Because of the nature of the reactions occurring during ExM, covalently linking RNAs directly to the ExM gel is necessary. Although transcripts are crosslinked to proteins during fixation, the strong proteolysis of ExM precludes a reliance on proteins for RNA retention (Figs. 4A, 4B). Thus, covalently securing RNA molecules directly to the ExM gel via a small molecule linker enables the interrogation of these molecules post-expansion. A reagent was synthesized from two building blocks: a molecule containing both an amine as well as an alkylating group that primarily reacts to the N7 of guanine, and a molecule that contains an amine-reactive succinamide ester and a polymerizable acrylamide moiety.
Commercially available reagents exist that satisfy each of these two profiles, such as Label-It Amine (MirusBio) and 6-((Acryloyl)amino)hexanoic acid (Acryloyl-X SE, here abbreviated AcX, Life Technologies; all reagents are listed in Table 1). Fig. 1A depicts this molecule, which enables RNA to be covalently functionalized with a free radical polymerizable group, and which will be referred to as LabelX. As shown in Fig. 5E, LabelX does not impede smFISH readout. The original ExM protocol and the use of LabelX allows a procedure wherein a sample could be treated with LabelX to make its RNAs gel-anchorable, followed by gel formation, proteolysis, and osmotic swelling as performed in the original ExM protocol. Once a sample was thus expanded, the RNAs could then be interrogated through FISH (Fig. IB).
To quantify RNA transcript anchoring yield after expansion, smFISH probes were used, targeting mRNAs of varying copy number (7 targets, with copy number ranging from -10 to -10,000 per cell, n = 59 cells across all 7 targets). smFISH images, taken with probes delivered before (Fig. 1C) and after (Fig. ID) expansion, to the same cells, showed no loss of transcript detectability with expansion for both low- and high-copy number transcripts (Fig. IE). The ratio of transcripts detected was near unity at low transcript counts (e.g., in the 10's), however, more transcripts were detected after expansion for highly expressed mRNAs (e.g., in the 1 ,000's) (Figs. 9A, 9B, Table 2). This difference arises from the high density of smFISH spots for these targets in the un-expanded state, with the expansion process de- crowding spots that previously were indistinguishable. For example, for smFISH against ACTB, we were able to resolve individual ACTB mRNA puncta post-expansion even within transcriptional foci in the nucleus (Fig. 1C, versus Fig. ID), which can be dense with mRNA due to transcriptional bursting. Thus, ExFISH is capable of supporting single molecule RNA readout in the expanded state. Since Label-It also reacts to DNA, the ExFISH process enables uniform expansion of the nucleus (Figs. 7A-C). The isotropy of ExFISH (Fig. 8) was numerically similar to that observed when protein targets were labeled and expanded in the original ExM protocol1. In recent ExM protocols in which proteins are anchored to the same hydrogel as used in ExFISH, with a similar linker9 10, the distortion is small (a few percent distortion, in cells and tissues). These earlier results, since they were obtained with similar polymer chemistry, serve to bound the ExFISH distortion. The expansion factor is slightly lower than in our original ExM paper (i.e., -3.3 χ versus ~4x, expansion factors can be found in Figure Legends of this manuscript) due to the salt required to support hybridization of probes.
Nanoscale Imaging of IncRNA with ExFISH
Long non-coding RNAs (IncRNAs) known to serve structural roles in cell biology were imaged. The IncRNA XIST was imaged. Its role in inactivating the X chromosome may depend on initial association with specific chromatin subregions through a process which is still being revealed11. The pre-expansion image (Fig. IF) shows two bright globular fluorescent regions, presumably corresponding to the X chromosomes of HEK cells undergoing inactivation11 13, but post-expansion, individual puncta were apparent both within the globular regions as well as nearby (Fig. 1 G). ExFISH was used additionally to examine the previously described14 ring-shaped morphology of ensembles οΐΝΕΑΤΙ IncRNAs (Fig. IH), which has been hypothesized to play an important role in gene expression regulation and nuclear mRNA retention15. Before expansion, NEAT1 presents in the form of bright, diffraction-limited puncta (Fig. IH, Fig. II), but after expansion, the ring-shaped morphology becomes clear (Fig. IH, Fig. II). Given the complex 3-D structure of the genome16, mapping IncRNAs may be useful in defining key chromatin regulatory complexes and their spatial configurations. Super-resolved, Multiplexed Imaging of RNA with ExFISH
The combination of covalent RNA anchoring to the ExM gel, and the de-crowding of the local environment that results from expansion, could facilitate strategies that have been proposed for multiplexed RNA readout17 19 based upon sequential hybridization with multiple probe sets. In order to facilitate multiple cycles of FISH, we re-embedded expanded specimens in charge-neutral polyacrylamide. This process allowed expanded gels to be immobilized for multi-round imaging, and additionally stabilized the expanded specimen throughout salt concentration changes in the protocol. Such re-embedded samples exhibited similar expansion factors as non-re-embedded samples (i.e., ~3 x), and were robust to multiple wash-stain cycles as assessed by repeated application of the same probe set (Fig. 2A, Figs. 9A, showing 5 rounds of smFISH staining against GAPDH on cultured cells). This stability was observed even under stringent wash conditions designed to minimize cycle-to- cycle crosstalk (e.g., 100% formamide). Across the 5 rounds, there was no distortion of the locations of individual RNA spots from round to round (Fig. 2B), nor variance in detection efficiency or signal-to-noise ratio (Fig. 2C, 2D). Having validated the cycle-to-cycle consistency, we next demonstrated the capability of multiplexed ExFISH by applying probes for GAPDH, UBC, NEAT1, USF2, ACTB, and EEF2 in series, enabling 6 individual RNAs to be identified and localized in the same cell (Fig. 2E, Fig. 9B). Thus, serial FISH is applicable to samples expanded after securing RNA to the swellable polymer as here described, making it straightforward to apply probe sets computationally designed to yield more information per FISH cycle, e.g. MERFISH18 20.
3D Nanoscale Imaging of RNA in Mouse Brain Tissue
ExM allows for facile super-resolution imaging of thick 3-D specimens such as brain tissue on conventional microscopy hardware1. ExFISH was applied to samples of Thyl-YFP mouse brain tissue21, using the YFP protein to delineate neural morphology (Fig. 3A, 3B). Endogenous YFP protein was anchored to the polyacrylate gel via AcX using the proExM protocol9, and RNA anchored via LabelX. Since smFISH yields signals too dim to visualize in intact tissues using confocal imaging, the previously described technique of hybridization chain reaction (HCR)5 was applied, in particular the next-generation DNA HCR amplifier architecture6 (schematic in Fig. 10). In samples containing mouse cortical and hippocampal regions, mRNAs for YFP (Fig. 3C) and glutamic acid decarboxylase 1 Gadl (Fig. 3D) were easily visualized using a widefield microscope, with YFP mRNA well localized to YFP- fluorescing cells (Fig. 3E), and Gadl mRNA localized to a population of cells with characteristic arrangement throughout specific layers of the cortex and hippocampus22.
Examining brain specimens at high magnification using a confocal spinning disk microscope revealed that individual transcripts could be distinguished due to the physical magnification of ExM (Fig. 3F, with YFP and Gadl mRNA highlighted), with even highly overexpressed transcripts (e.g., YFP) cleanly resolved into individual puncta (Fig. 3F). When FISH probes were omitted, minimal background HCR amplification was observed (Fig. 11A-C). Given that ExM enables super-resolution imaging on diffraction limited microscopes, which can be scaled to very fast imaging speeds23, we used a commercially available lightsheet microscope on a Thy 1 -YFP brain slice to enable visualization of multiple transcripts, with single molecule precision, throughout a volume of -575 μιτι χ 575 μιτι χ 160 μιτι thick in just 3 hours (~6 1010 voxels in 3 colors; Fig. 12A-C).
HCR amplifies a target binding event into a bright fluorescent signal (Fig. 10). A stringent method for assessing detection accuracy is to label individual RNAs with different probe sets bearing different colors24 25, which shows that 50-80% of mRNAs thus targeted will be doubly labeled, when assessed in cell culture; a 50% co-localization is interpreted as Vo ) ~ 70% detection efficiency (assuming probe independence); this is a lower bound as it excludes false positives. In order to assess the false positive and negative rates for single molecule visualization in expanded tissues, pairs of probe sets targeting the same transcript with different initiators were delivered. This scheme results in amplified fluorescent signals of two different colors from the same target (Fig 13A-B), giving a measure of the hybridization efficiency. Delivering probe sets against a nonexistent transcript also gives a measure of false positive rate. A probe set was delivered against a missense probe (Dlg4 reversed, Fig. 3G(i-ii)) as well as a nonexistent transcript (mCherry, Table 3), using Thy 1- YFP mouse brain samples, and found a low but nonzero spatial density of dim, yet amplified, puncta (1 per 61 μπι3 in unexpanded coordinates, Dlg4 reversed; 1 per 48 μιτι3, mCherry). Essentially zero of these puncta exhibited co-localization (0/1 ,209 spots, Dlg4 reversed; 4/1 ,540 spots mCherry). In contrast, when a transcript was present (Actb), a large fraction of the puncta exhibited co-localization (an average of 58% of probes in one color co-localized with other color, 15,866/27,504 spots, Fig. 3H(i-ii), Table 3), indicative of a 75% detection efficiency, comparable to the non-amplified single molecule studies described above.
Two-color HCR ExFISH was used against mRNAs to image their position within cellular compartments such as dendritic spines, which require nanoscale resolution for accurate identification or segmentation. The Dlg4 mRNA was probed, which encodes the prominent postsynaptic scaffolding protein PSD-95, and which is known to be dendritically enriched7. A degree of co-localization (53%, 5,174/9,795 spots) was obtained, suggesting a high detection efficiency, 73% (Fig. 31). The mRNA was also probed for Camk2a, finding a detection efficiency of 78% (co-localization, 61%, 8,799/14,440 spots, Fig. 13D-E). Puncta which were co-localized were focused on, thus suppressing false positive errors, and giving a lower-bound on transcript detection (Fig. 13). Focusing on individual dendrites in these expanded samples revealed that individual Dlg4 (Fig. 3J(i-ii)) and Camk2a (Fig. 3K(i-ii)) mRNAs could indeed be detected in a sparse subset of dendritic spines as well as fine dendritic processes. To facilitate multiplexed HCR readout, we developed modified HCR hairpins that can be disassembled using toe-hold mediated strand displacement26 (Fig. 14A- B). These modified HCR amplifiers enable multiple cycles of HCR by disassembling the HCR polymer between subsequent cycles. Given that neurons can have tens of thousands of synapses, and mRNAs can be low copy number, the ability to map mRNAs at synapses throughout neuronal arbors may be useful for a diversity of questions in neuroscience ranging from plasticity to development to degeneration.
Discussion
A novel reagent, easily synthesized from commercial precursors, that enables RNA to be covalently anchored for expansion microscopy is presented. The resulting procedure, ExFISH, enables RNAs to be probed through single-molecule FISH labeling as well as hybridization chain reaction (HCR) amplification. RNA retention before versus after expansion was validated, finding excellent yield, and de-crowding of RNAs for more accurate RNA counts and localization. This enabled visualization, with nanoscale precision and single molecule resolution, RNA structures such as XIST and NEAT1, long non-coding RNAs whose emergent structure has direct implications for their biological roles. The anchoring was robust enough to support serial smFISH, including repeated washing and probe hybridization steps, and multiplexed readout of RNA identity and location, implying that using probes designed according to specific coding strategies17 19 would support combinatorial multiplexing, in which each additional cycle yields exponentially more transcript information. The covalent anchoring of RNA to the ExM gel may also support enzymatic reactions to be performed in expanded samples - such as reverse transcription, rolling circle amplification (RCA), fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ)27, and other strategies for transcriptomic readout or SNP detection28, within intact samples. ExM, being a physical form of magnification, enables nanoscale resolution even on conventional diffraction limited microscopes. Expanding samples makes them transparent and homogeneous in index of refraction, in part because of the volumetric dilution, and in part because of washout of non-anchored components1. Thus, strategies combining ExM with fast diffraction limited methods like lightsheet microscopy23 may result in "best of both worlds" performance metrics: the voxel sizes of classical super-resolution methods, but the voxel acquisition rates of increasingly fast diffraction limited microscopes1. The de- crowding of RNAs enables another key advantage: reducing the effective size of the self- assembled amplification product of HCR, which were applied here, following the protocols of refs.5'6, to enable nanoscale resolution visualization of RNA in intact tissues (a paper conducted in parallel has also recently performed single molecule HCR FISH29). An HCR amplicon of size 500 nm in the post-expanded sample would, because of the greater distance between RNAs, have an effective size of 500 / 3.5 = ~150 nm. The lower packing density of amplicons facilitates the imaging of more transcripts per experiment19 with nanoscale precision. Other methods of achieving brighter signals may be possible. For example, brighter fluorophores such as quantum dots30 or bottlebrush fluorophores 1 could obviate the need for signal amplification, in principle. The expanded state may enable better delivery of these and other bulky fluorophores into samples. Other amplification strategies may be possible as well, including enzymatic (e.g., RCA28, tyramide amplification22, HRP amplification) as well as nonenzymatic (e.g., branched DNA) methods, although reaction efficiency and diffusion of reagents into the sample must be considered.
ExFISH may find many uses in neuroscience and other biological fields. In the brain, for example, RNA is known to be trafficked to specific synapses as a function of local synaptic activity32 and intron content33, and locally translated7'34 35, and the presence and translation of axonal RNAs remains under investigation36. It is anticipated that, coupled to straightforward multiplexed coding schemes, this method can be used for transcriptomic profiling of neuronal cell-types in situ, as well as for the super-resolved characterization of neuronal connectivity and synaptic organization in intact brain circuits, key for an integrative understanding of the mechanisms underlying neural circuit function and dysfunction. More broadly, visualizing RNAs within cells, and their relationship with RNA processing and trafficking machinery, may reveal new insights throughout biology and medicine. Method Information
Table 1
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Table 2
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Table 3
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YFP Bl 10 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATagcc Bl gaaggtggtcacga
YFP B1 11 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATggcg Bl aagcactgcaggcc
YFP Bl 12 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATttcat Bl gtggtcggggtag
YFP Bl 13 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATacttg Bl aagaagtcgtgct
YFP Bl 14 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATgtag Bl ccttcgggcatggc
YFP Bl 15 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATaagat Bl ggtgcgctcctgg
YFP Bl 16 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATagttg Bl ccgtcgtccttga
YFP Bl 17 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATcacct Bl cggcgcgggtctt
YFP Bl 18 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATaggg Bl tgtcgccctcgaac
YFP Bl 19 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATtcagc Bl tcgatgcggttca
YFP Bl 20 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATctcct Bl tgaagtcgatgcc
YFP Bl 21 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATtgccc Bl caggatgttgccg
YFP Bl 22 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATtgtag Bl ttgtactccagct
YFP Bl 23 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATgatat Bl agacgttgtggct
YFP Bl 24 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATttcttc Bl tgcttgtcggcc
YFP Bl 25 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATtgaa Bl gttcaccttgatgc
YFP Bl 26 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATctcga Bl tgttgtggcggat
YFP Bl 27 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATgcga Bl gctgcacgctgccg
YFP Bl 28 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATtgttct Bl gctggtagtggt
YFP Bl 29 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATgggg Bl ccgtcgccgatggg
YFP Bl 30 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATtggtt Bl gtcgggcagcagc
YFP Bl 31 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATcgga Bl ctggtagctcaggt
YFP Bl 32 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATgttgg Bl ggtctttgctcag
YFP Bl 33 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATaccat Bl gtgatcgcgcttc YFP Bl 34 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATcggt Bl cacgaactccagca
YFP Bl 35 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATgccg Bl agagtgatcccggc
YFP Bl 36 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTAATtactt Bl gtacagctcgtcc
Gadl 21 TTGAAAAATCGAGGGTGACCTGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2
CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 22 CCAATGATATCCAAACCAGTAGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 23 GATGTCAGCCATTCACCAGCTAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 24 TCATATGTGAACATATTGGTATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 25 ATGAGAACAAACACGGGTGCAAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2
CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 26 TCTCTCATCTTCTTAAGAGTAAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 27 TCTTTATTTGACCATCCAACGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 28 GCTCCCCCAGGAGAAAATATCCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 29 ATGATGCTGTACATATTGGATAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 30 ACTTCTGGGAAGTACTTGTAACAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 31 ACAGCCGCCATGCCTTTTGTCTAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 32 TGTTCTGAGGTGAAGAGGACCAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 33 GCTTTCTTTATGGAATAGTGACAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 34 TTGTCGGTTCCAAAGCCAAGCGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 35 TCATTGCACTTTATCAAAATCAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 36 TCTAAATCAGCCGGAATTATCTAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 37 TGTTTGGCATCAAGAATTTTTGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 38 GCATTGACATAAAGGGGAACATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 39 CCGTAAACAGTCGTGCCTGCGGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 40 TCCGCAATTTCCTGGATTGGATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 41 CAAAGGTTGTATTTCTCACATAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC Gadl 42 CCACCACCCCAGGCAGCATCCAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 43 CGGTGCTTCCGGGACATGAGCAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 44 TTGGCCCTTTCTATGCCGCTGAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 45 TTGTGAGGGTTCCAGGTGACTGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 46 GCAGAGCACTGGAGCAGCACGCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
Gadl 47 ATACCCTTTTCCTTGACCAGAAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Gadl 48 CCTGCACACATCTGGTTGCATCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
ActB B2 2 C CTCgTA AATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAgga B2 atacagcccggggagcatc
ActB B2 4 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAcac B2 ccacataggagtccttctg
ActB B2 6 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAcaat B2 ggggtacttcagggtcag
ActB B2 8 C CTCgTA AATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAggt B2 gccagatcttctccatgtc
ActB B2 10 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAtcat B2 cttttcacggttggcctt
ActB B2 12 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgCC AAtggc B2 tacgtacatggctggggt
ActB B2 14 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAcaat B2 gcctgtggtacgaccaga
ActB B2 16 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAcctc B2 gtagatgggcacagtgtg
ActB B2 18 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAatctt B2 catgaggtagtctgtca
ActB B2 20 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAatttc B2 cctctcagctgtggtgg
ActB B2 22 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAtcga B2 agtctagagcaacatagc
ActB B2 24 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAtagc B2 tcttctccagggaggaag
ActB B2 26 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAcgg B2 aaccgctcgttgccaatag
ActB B2 28 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAcag B2 gattccatacccaagaagg
ActB B2 30 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAtcaa B2 cgtcacacttcatgatgg
ActB B2 32 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgCC AAgtg B2 gtaccaccagacagcactg
ActB B2 34 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAaga B2 gcagtaatctccttctgca ActB B2 36 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgCC AAttgc B2 gctcaggaggagcaatga
ActB B2 38 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAAaag B2 gtggacagtgaggccagga
ActB B2 40 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAgag B2 gggccggactcatcgtact
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTgcgcagc Bl
HCR 1 gatatcgtcatccat
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTccattccc Bl
HCR 3 accatcacaccctg
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTtacctctct Bl
HCR 5 tgctctgggcctc
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTcccagttg Bl
HCR 7 gtaacaatgccatg
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTcacgcag Bl
HCR 9 ctcattgtagaaggt
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTtgaaggtc Bl
HCR 11 tcaaacatgatctg
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTcatacagg Bl
HCR 13 gacagcacagcctg
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTtgaccccg Bl
HCR 15 tctccggagtccat
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTggatggc Bl
HCR 17 gtgagggagagcata
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTaagctgta Bl
HCR 19 gccacgctcggtca
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTagcttctct Bl
HCR 21 ttgatgtcacgca
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTgatgcgg Bl
HCR 23 cagtggccatctcct
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTatgacctg Bl
HCR 25 gccgtcaggcagct
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTggctgga Bl
HCR 27 aaagagcctcagggc
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTttgaatgta Bl
HCR 29 gtttcatggatgc
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTttggcata Bl
HCR 31 gaggtctttacgga
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTctgtcagc Bl
HCR 33 aatgcctgggtaca
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTttgatcttc Bl
HCR 35 atggtgctaggag
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTgagccac Bl
HCR 37 cgatccacacagagt
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTtgcttgctg Bl
HCR 39 atccacatctgct
Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTtagaagca Bl
HCR 41 cttgcggtgcacga Act Short gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgTTtagaagca Bl HCR 41 cttgcggtgcacga
DLG4 Bl 2 GGGCTGTGTTCCAGAGGGGGCGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 4 GTGTCCGTGTTGACAATCACAGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 6 TCCTCATACTCCATCTCCCCCTAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAg Bl ggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 8 GTGCCACCTGCGATGCTGAAGCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 B1 10 GGAATGATCTTGGTGATAAAGAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 12 AACAGGATGCTGTCGTTGACCCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 14 AGGGCCTCCACTGCAGCTGAATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 B1 16 GCTGGGGGTTTCCGGCGCATGAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 B1 18 CTGAAGCCAAGTCCTTTAGGCCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 20 ACGTAGATGCTATTATCTCCAGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 22 CCGATCTGCAACCTGCCATCCTAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 24 TCCTCATGCATGACATCCTCTAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 26 TTGGCCACCTTTAGGTACACAAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 28 GAGGTTGTGATGTCTGGGGGAGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl
AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 Bl 30 TCGGTGCCCAAGTAGCTGCTATAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
DLG4 B2 1 TCTTCATCTTGGTAGCGGTATTAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCg B2
TAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 3 GGAGAATTGGCCTGGTTGGGGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2
CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 5 GTTCCGTTCACATATCCTGGGGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 7 AGACCTGAGTTACCCCTTTCCAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 9 GATGGGTCGTCACCGATGTGTGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 11 AGGCGGCCATCCTGGGCTGCAGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2
CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 13 GTCACCTCCCGGACATCCACTTAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 15 TAGAGGCGAACGATGGAACCCGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2
CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC DLG4 B2 17 TTGATAAGCTTGATCTCTATGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 19 ATGTGCTGGTTCCCAACGCCCCAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 21 TGGGCAGCGCCTCCTTCGATGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 23 CCCACACTGTTGACCGCCAGGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 25 TCATATGTGTTCTTCAGGGCTGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 27 TAGCTGTCACTCAGGTAGGCATAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
DLG4 B2 29 CTGATCTCATTGTCCAGGTGCTAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACGGG Bl 1 TGCAGGTGATGGTAGCCA
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 2 CTCAAAGAGCTGGTACTCTT
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAACAG Bl 3 AGAAGGCTCCCTTTCCCA
Camk2a iso2 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAACC B2 4 AGCCAGCACCTTCACACACC
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAATAA Bl 5 TCTTGGCAGCATACTCCT
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATG B2
6 ATCTCTGGCTGAAAGCTTCT
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACGGG Bl 7 CCTCACGCTCCAGCTTCT
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAT B2 8 ATTGGGGTGCTTCAACAAGC
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGAGA Bl 9 TGCTGTCATGGAGTCGGA
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 10 GAAGAT AAGGT AGTGGTGC C
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAAACA Bl 11 GTTCCCCACCAGTAACCA
Camk2a iso2 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAACT B2 12 GTAATACTCCCGGGCCACAA
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAATAC Bl 13 AGTGGCTGGCATCAGCTT
Camk2a iso2 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAACA B2 14 GTGTAGCACAGCCTCCAAGA
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACGAT Bl 15 GCACCACCCCCATCTGGT
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAGC B2 16 CAGCAACAGATTCTCAGGCT
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAACAG Bl 17 CAGCGCCCTTGAGCTTCG Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 18 TATGGCCAGGCCAAAGTCTG
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACATG Bl 19 CCTGCTGCTCCCCCTCCA
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAG B2 20 GTATCCAGGTGTCCCTGCGA
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAATCCTT Bl 21 CCTCAGCACTTCTGGGG
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAGC B2 22 CCACAGGTCCACGGGCTTCC
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAAAGA Bl 23 TATACAGGATGACGCCAC
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 24 ATCCCAGAACGGGGGATACC
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAATGCTG Bl 25 GTACAGGCGATGCTGGT
Camk2a iso2 CCTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAGA B2 26 TGGGAAATCATAGGCACCAG
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGGGG Bl 27 TGACGGTGTCCCATTCTG
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAG B2 28 CATCTTATTGATCAGATCCT
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAATGC Bl 29 GTTTGGAC GGGTTGATGG
Camk2a iso2 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAACA B2 30 TGGGTGCTTGAGAGCCTCAG
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGCCA Bl 31 CGGTGGAGCGGTGCGAGA
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 32 CACGGTCTCCTGTCTGTGCA
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACTGG Bl 33 CATTGAACTTCTTCAGGC
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAGT B2 34 GGTGAGGATGGCTCCCTTCA
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGAGA Bl 35 AGTTCCTGGTGGCCAGCA
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATT B2 36 CTTCTTGTTTCCTCCGCTCT
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAATCAG Bl 37 AAGATTCCTTCACACCAT
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AATC B2 38 TTCGTCCTCAATGGTGGTGT
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAATTTC Bl 39 CTGTTTGCGCACTTTGG
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAGC B2 40 TTCGATCAGCTGCTCTGTCA
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGACT Bl 41 CAAAGTCTCCATTGCTTA Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAGT B2
42 CATTCCAGGGTCGCACATCT
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAACCCA Bl
43 GGGCCTCTGGTTCAAAGG
Camk2a iso2 CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCAACG B2
44 ATGAAAGTCCAGGCCCTCCA
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAGACC Bl
45 ACAGGTTTTCAAAATAGA
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAT B2
46 GGTGGTGTGC AC GGGCTTGC
Camk2a iso2 gAggAgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAgTCTTCCTTTACgAAATCA Bl
47 GGTGGATGTGAGGGTTCA
Camk2a iso2 C CTCgTAAATC CTC ATC AATC ATC C AgTAAAC CgC C AAAT B2
48 ATAGGCGATGCAGGCTGACT mCherr 2C cttcttcaccttttgaaaccatAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAA Bl
1 CgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C ccatatgaactttaaatctcatAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAA Bl
3 CgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C cttcaccttcaccttcaatttcAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAA Bl
5 CgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C cacctttagtaactttcaatttAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAA Bl
7 CgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C catacataaattgtggtgacaaAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAA Bl 9 ACgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C ttaaataatctggaatatcagcAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAA Bl
11 ACgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C tcaaaattcataactctttcccAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAA Bl
13 CgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C ctctcaatttaactttataaatAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAA Bl
15 CgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C ccatagtttttttttgcataacAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAAC Bl
17 gggAAgAg
mCherry 2C tcaatctttgtttaatttcaccAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAAC Bl
19 gggAAgAg
mCherry 2C taatattaacattataagcaccAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAA Bl
21 CgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C tttcatattgttcaacaatagtAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggAgggCAgCAAA Bl
23 CgggAAgAg
mCherry 2C attctttaataatagccatattAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCTC B2
2 ATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C attcatgaccattaactgaaccAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCT B2
4 CATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C cagtttgagtaccttcatatggAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCT B2
6 CATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C tatcccaagcaaatggtaatggAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCT B2 8 CATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C gatgtttaacataagcttttgaAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCTC B2
10 ATCAATCATC mCherry 2C ttaaaaccttctggaaatgacaAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCT B2 12 CATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C gagtaacagtaacaacaccaccAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCC B2 14 TCATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C gaccatctgatggaaaattagtAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCT B2 16 CATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C ttctttctgatgaagcttcccaAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCTC B2 18 ATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C gtaattgaactggttttttagcAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCTC B2 20 ATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C tcattatgtgaagtaatatccaAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCTC B2 22 ATCAATCATC
mCherry 2C atttatataattcatccataccAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCTC B2 24 ATCAATCATC
DLG4 AATACCGCTACCAAGATGAAGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2 ShHCR mis CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
1
DLG4 TCCCCAACCAGGCCAATTCTCCAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 ShHCR mis gTAAATCCTC ATCAATCATC
3
DLG4 CCCCAGGATATGTGAACGGAACAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2 ShHCR mis CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
5
DLG4 TGGAAAGGGGTAACTCAGGTCTAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2 ShHCR mis CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
7
DLG4 CACACATCGGTGACGACCCATCAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 ShHCR mis gTAAATCCTC ATCAATCATC
9
DLG4 CTGCAGCCCAGGATGGCCGCCTAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 ShHCR mis gTAAATCCTC ATCAATCATC
11
DLG4 AAGTGGATGTCCGGGAGGTGACAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2 ShHCR mis CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
13
DLG4 CGGGTTCCATCGTTCGCCTCTAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 ShHCR mis gTAAATCCTC ATCAATCATC
15
DLG4 TCATAGAGATCAAGCTTATCAAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 ShHCR mis gTAAATCCTC ATCAATCATC
17
DLG4 GGGGCGTTGGGAACCAGCACATAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2 ShHCR mis CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
19
DLG4 TCATCGAAGGAGGCGCTGCCCAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2 ShHCR mis CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
21 DLG4 TCCTGGCGGTCAACAGTGTGGGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 ShHCR mis gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
23
DLG4 CAGCCCTGAAGAACACATATGAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2 ShHCR mis CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
25
DLG4 ATGCCTACCTGAGTGACAGCTAAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCTC B2 ShHCR mis gTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
27
DLG4 AGCACCTGGACAATGAGATCAGAAAgCTCAgTCCATCCT B2 ShHCR mis CgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATC
29
DLG4 CGCCCCCTCTGGAACACAGCCCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
2
DLG4 CTGTGATTGTCAACACGGACACAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
4
DLG4 AGGGGGAGATGGAGTATGAGGAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
6
DLG4 GCTTCAGCATCGCAGGTGGCACAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
8
DLG4 TCTTTATCACCAAGATCATTCCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl ShHCR mis gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
10
DLG4 GGGTCAACGACAGCATCCTGTTAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
12
DLG4 ATTCAGCTGCAGTGGAGGCCCTAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
14
DLG4 TCATGCGCCGGAAACCCCCAGCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
16
DLG4 GGCCTAAAGGACTTGGCTTCAGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
18
DLG4 CTGGAGATAATAGCATCTACGTAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
20
DLG4 AGGATGGCAGGTTGCAGATCGGAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
22
DLG4 TAGAGGATGTCATGCATGAGGAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
24 DLG4 TTGTGTACCTAAAGGTGGCCAAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
26
DLG4 CTCCCCCAGACATCACAACCTCAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAggA Bl ShHCR mis gggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
28
DLG4 ATAGCAGCTACTTGGGCACCGAAAgCATTCTTTCTTgAgg Bl ShHCR mis AgggCAgCAAACgggAAgAg
30 smFISH
Probe Name Oligonucleotide Sequence Sequence
Name
UBC atggtcttaccagtcagagt hUBC l gacattctcgatggtgtcac hUBC_2 gggatgccttccttatcttg hUBC_3 atcttccagctgttttccag hUBC_4 cagtgagtgtcttcacgaag hUBC_5 tcctggatctttgctttgac hUBC_6 cagggtagactctttctgga hUBC_7 cttcacgaagatctgcatcc hUBC_8 tcttggatctttgccttgac hUBC_9 cagtgagtgtcttcacgaag hUBC IO tgacgttctcgatagtgtca hUBC l 1 tccttgtcttggatctttgc hUBC_12 cagggtagactctttctgga hUBC_13 cttcacgaagatctgcatcc hUBC_14 agagtgatggtcttaccagt hUBC_15 tcttggatctttgccttgac hUBC_16 cttcacgaagatctgcatcc hUBC_17 agagtgatggtcttaccagt hUBC_18 tcttggatctttgccttgac hUBC_19 tgtttcccagcaaagatcaa hUBC_20 cttcacgaagatctgcatcc hUBC_21 agagtgatggtcttaccagt hUBC_22 tcttggatctttgccttgac hUBC_23 tgtttcccagcaaagatcaa hUBC_24 cttcacgaagatctgcatcc hUBC_25 agagtgatggtcttaccagt hUBC_26 tcttggatctttgccttgac hUBC_27 tgtttcccagcaaagatcaa hUBC_28 gacattctcgatggtgtcac hUBC_29 gggatgccttccttatcttg hUBC_30 tgtttcccagcaaagatcaa hUBC_31 agagtggactctttctggat hUBC_32
EEF2 atctggtctaccgtgaagtt hEEF2_l ttggccttcttgtccatgat hEEF2_2 gtatcagtgaagcgtgtctc hEEF2_3 ttgacttgatggtgatgcaa hEEF2_4 ctcgtagaagagggagatgg hEEF2_5 tccttgctctgcttgatgaa hEEF2_6 gggagtcaatgaggttgatg hEEF2_7 cggtccatcttgttcatcat hEEF2_8 gtggagatgatgacgttcac hEEF2_9 gtaccgaggacaggatcgat hEEF2_10 caaactgcttcagggtgaag hEEF2_l l aacttggccacatacatctc hEEF2_12 atgtcctctactttcttggc hEEF2_13 ttcatgatcgcatcaaacac hEEF2_14 gtccagtttgatgtccagtt hEEF2_15 gatggtgatcatctgcaaca hEEF2_16 tttggggtcacagcttttaa hEEF2_17 gtagaaccgacctttgtcgg hEEF2_18 ccatgatcctgaccttcagg hEEF2_19 ttcttcccaggggtatagtt hEEF2_20 tctggattggcttcaggtag hEEF2_21 ggcccatcatcaagattgtt hEEF2_22 gtcttcaccaggaactggtc hEEF2_23 ctgacgctgaacttcatcac hEEF2_24 atgatatgctctcccgactc hEEF2_25 gactcttcactgaccgtctc hEEF2_26 cttcatgtacagccggttgt hEEF2_27 tcgcctttatcgatgtcctc hEEF2_28 tgatgtcggtgaggatgttg hEEF2_29 cactgtccttgatctcgttg hEEF2_30 gtcagcacactggcatagag hEEF2_31 atctccacaaggtagatggg hEEF2_32
USF2 ggatccagacccgggtccag usf2 withUT
R 1 tactggatgttgtggtcgcc usf2 withUT
R 2 catttgtctctgtgcggaac usf2 withUT
R 3 attttggatcacagcctgtc usf2 withUT
R 4 gactgccaccattgctgaag usf2 withUT
R 5 ctgggaaataggcaaatcgt usf2 withUT
R 6 gacacagccgtagtatctcc usf2 withUT
R 7 gtctgaagcacatcctgggg usf2 withUT
R 8 ggcgatcgtcctctgtgttc usf2 withUT
R 9 tggttccatcaatttttgga usf2 withUT
R 10 ttctcctctcatctcggggt usf2 withUT
R 11 ctccacttcgttgtgctggg usf2 withUT
R 12 cagttgttgatcttgtccct usf2 withUT
R 13 gattttcgaaagctggacga usf2 withUT
R 14 gttgtctgcgttacagtctg usf2 withUT
R 15 ggccttggacaggatccctc usf2 withUT
R 16 cgcaactcccggatgtaatc usf2 withUT
R 17 ctgcatgcgctggttggtct usf2 withUT
R 18 gctcggcctctttgaaggtc usf2 withUT
R 19 agctcgttgtccatctgcag usf2 withUT
R 20 caccatctccaggttgtgct usf2 withUT
R 21 tgtatccacagaaatgcatt usf2 withUT
R 22 ggaggataccgtttccaagt usf2 withUT
R 23 gtgagaccactagaagtgcc usf2 withUT
R 24 cataggtccaggccccgggt usf2 withUT
R 25 cagggacccagaaacaagag usf2 withUT
R 26 gggccagtttattgcagtta usf2 withUT
R 27
TOP2A ctgggcggagcaaaatatgt hT0P2A C
DS 1 tcttcatcgtaaacccacat hT0P2A C
DS 2 ccggatcaattgtgactcta hT0P2A C
DS 3 ccttttccattattccatat hT0P2A C
DS 4 agaagttaggagctgtccaa hT0P2A C
DS 5 ccagcaatatcatatgctct hT0P2A C
DS 6 ttactggcagtttatttcca hT0P2A C
DS 7 tgttgatccaaagctcttgg hT0P2A C
DS 8 aactggacttgggccttaaa hT0P2A C
DS 9 atcattggcatcatcgagtt hT0P2A C
DS 10 gtcaggataagcgtacactc hT0P2A C
DS 11 ggaaaaccccatatttgtct hT0P2A C
DS 12 tttcttgtactgaagaccca hT0P2A C
DS 13 ttggtcctgatctgtcataa hT0P2A C
DS 14 ctccagaaaacgatgtcgca hT0P2A C
DS 15 gttaaccattcctttcgatc hT0P2A C
DS 16 agctaattgggcaaccttta hT0P2A C
DS 17 atgtatcgtggactagcaga hT0P2A C
DS 18 acgctggttgtcatcatata hT0P2A C
DS 19 ttcttctccatccatcaaac hT0P2A C
DS 20 cccttgaagttcttgtaact hT0P2A C
DS 21 tatgagaggaggtgtcttct hT0P2A C
DS 22 tgtatggtattccctatagt hT0P2A C
DS 23 tcagtttagcagattcagca hT0P2A C
DS 24 cttcacaggatccgaatcat hT0P2A C
DS 25 gtggaatgactctttgacca hT0P2A C
DS 26 tgctcctatctgattctgaa hT0P2A C
DS 27 agtggaggtggaagactgac hT0P2A C
DS 28 aattcaaagctggatccctt hT0P2A C
DS 29 caggatcaggcttttgagag hT0P2A C
DS 30 cttggatttcttgcttgtga hT0P2A C
DS 31 tatggaagtcatcactctcc hT0P2A C
DS 32
NEAT1 gacctagtctccttgccaag NEAT1_1 ggatattttccatgcagcct NEAT1_2 acaagttgaagattagccct NEAT 1 3 ccttggtctggaaaaaaagg NEAT1_4 cgagctaagttcagttccac NEAT 1 5 ggccgagcgaaaattacata NEAT1_6 cctgtcaaacatgctaggtg NEAT1_7 actgccacctggaaaataaa NEAT1_8 gtgagctcacaagaagagtt NEAT1_9 accagatgaccaggtaatgt NEAT1_10 cggtccatgaagcatttttg NEAT1_11 tcgccatgaggaacactata NEAT1_12 aatctgcaggcatcaattga NEAT1_13 cctggaaacagaacattgga NEAT1_14 gcatctgctgtggacttttt NEAT1_15 ggctctggaacaagcattta NEAT1_16 tgcagcatctgaaaaccttt NEAT1_17 accggaggctcaatttagaa NEAT1_18 caaggttccaagcacaaaac NEAT1_19 acagcttagggatcttcttg NEAT1_20 tggcatcaacgttaaaatgt NEAT1_21 tctacaaggcatcaatctgc NEAT1_22 aagaacttctccgagaaacg NEAT1_23 gccccaagttatttcatcag NEAT1_24 gcgtttagcacaacacaatg NEAT1_25 ggaatgaccaacttgtaccc NEAT1_26 caatgcccaaactagacctg NEAT1_27 tcctagtaatctgcaatgca NEAT1_28 agcaagaacaaaagagcact NEAT1_29 ggtcctcttactagaatgcc NEAT1_30 ctgtgtcacctgttttcagt NEAT1_31 cctttggttctcggaaaact NEAT1_32 agctggtaaagacatttccc NEAT1_33 ctctgaaacaggctgtcttg NEAT1_34 gcccatctttcaagtgacta NEAT 1 35 aaccacctaagttgctaagg NEAT1_36 tcgtcttaagtggtccctta NEAT1_37 atccagaagagcccatctaa NEAT1_38 acctgtgacaaatgaggaac NEAT1_39 agatgtgtttctaaggcacg NEAT1_40 acagtgaccacaaaaggtta NEAT1_41 agcaaaggtacatggattct NEAT1_42 cagggttttcagatcacaca NEAT1_43 ccccaagtcattggttaaga NEAT1_44 tcccaacgacagtaattgtt NEAT1_45 cccatacatgcgtgactaat NEAT1_46 caacagcatacccgagacta NEAT1_47 acagagcaacataccagtac NEAT1_48
Cell Culture and Fixation;
HeLa (ATCC CCL-2) cells and HEK293-FT cells (Invitrogen) were cultured on Nunc Lab-Tek II Chambered Coverglass (Thermo Scientific) in D10 medium (Cellgro) supplemented with 10% FBS (Invitrogen), 1 % penicillin/streptomycin (Cellgro), and 1 % sodium pyruvate (BioWhittaker). Cells were authenticated by the manufacturer and tested for mycoplasma contamination to their standard levels of stringency, and were here used because they are common cell lines for testing new tools. Cultured cells were washed once with DPBS (Cellgro), fixed with 10% formalin for 10 mins, and washed twice with l x PBS. Fixed cells were then stored in 70% Ethanol at 4°C until use.
Preparation of LabelX;
Acryloyl-X, SE (6-((acryloyl)amino)hexanoic acid, succinimidyl ester, here abbreviated AcX; Thermo-Fisher) was resuspended in anhydrous DMSO at a concentration of 10 mg/mL, aliquoted and stored frozen in a desiccated environment. LABEL-IT ® Amine Modifying Reagent (Minis Bio, LLC) was resuspended in the provided Minis Reconstitution Solution at Img/mi and stored frozen in a desiccated environment. To prepare LabeiX, 10 of AcX (10 mg/mL) was reacted with 100 μL· of LABEL-IT ® Amine Modifying Reagent (1 mg/mL) overnight at room temperature with shaking. LabelX was subsequently stored frozen (-20 °C) in a desiccated environment until use.
Mouse perfusion;
All methods for animal care and use were approved by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Committee on Animal Care and were in accordance with the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. All solutions below were made up in 1 x phosphate buffered saline (PBS) prepared from nuclease free reagents. Mice were anesthetized with isoflurane and perfused transcardially with ice cold 4% paraformaldehyde. Brains were dissected out, left in 4% paraformaldehyde at 4°C for one day, before moving to PBS containing 100 mM glycine. Slices (50 μηι and 200 μηι) were sliced on a vibratome (Leica VT1000S) and stored at 4 °C in PBS until use. The mouse used in Fig. 3 and related analyses was a Thy 1-YFP (Tg(Thyl-YFP)16Jrs) male mouse in the age range 6-8 weeks. No sample size estimate was performed, since the goal was to demonstrate a technology. No exclusion, randomization or blinding of samples was performed. LabelX Treatment of Cultured Cells and Brain Slices;
Fixed cells were washed twice with l x PBS, once with 20 mM MOPS pH 7.7, and incubated with LabelX diluted to a desired final concentration in MOPS buffer (20 mM MOPS pH 7.7) at 37 °C overnight followed by two washes with 1 χ PBS. For cells, ranges of LabelX were used that resulted in a LABEL-IT ® Amine concentration of 0.006-0.02 mg/mL; higher concentrations resulted in somewhat dimmer smFISH staining (Fig. 15), but otherwise no difference in staining quality was observed with LABEL-IT® Amine concentrations in this range. For Fig. le, Fig. 4, Fig. 5, and Fig. 6 fixed cells were incubated with LabelX diluted to a final LABEL-IT ® Amine concentration of 0.02 mg/mL. For all other experiments in cells, fixed cells were treated with LabelX diluted to a final LABEL-IT ® Amine concentration of 0.006 mg/mL.
Brain slices, as prepared above, were incubated with 20mM MOPS pH 7.7 for 30 mins and subsequently incubated with LabelX diluted to a final LABEL-IT® Amine concentration of 0.1 mg/mL (due to their increased thickness and increased fragmentation from formaldehyde post-fixation) in MOPS buffer (20 mM MOPS pH 7.7) at 37°C overnight. For YFP retention, slices were treated with 0.05 mg/mL AcX in PBS for >6 hours @ RT. smFISH in Fixed Cultured Cells Before Expansion:
Fixed cells were briefly washed once with wash buffer (10% formamide, 2x SSC) and hybridized with RNA FISH probes in hybridization buffer (10% formamide, 10% dextran sulfate, 2x SSC) overnight at 37 °C. Following hybridization, samples were washed twice with wash buffer, 30mins per wash, and washed once with 1 χ PBS. Imaging was performed in l x PBS.
smFISH probe sets targeting the human transcripts for TFRC, ACTB, GAPDH, XIST, and 5' portion of NEATl were ordered from Stellans with Quasar 570 dye. Probe sets against UBC, EEF2, USF2, TOP2A and full length NEA Tl were synthesized, conjugated to fluorophores, and subsequently purified by HPLC as described previously37. Oligonucleotide sequences for probe sets and accession numbers can be found in Table 4. Gelation, Digestion and Expansion;
Monomer solution (1 χ PBS, 2 M NaCl, 8.625% (w/w) sodium acrylate, 2.5% (w/w) acrylamide, 0.15% (w/w) N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide) was mixed, frozen in aliquots, and thawed before use. Monomer solution was cooled to 4°C before use. For gelling cultured cells treated with LabelX, a concentrated stock of VA-044 (25% w/w, chosen instead of the Ammonium persulfate (APS)/Tetramethylethylenediamine (TEMED) of the original ExM protocol1 because APS/TEMED resulted in autofluorescence that was small in magnitude but appreciable in the context of smFISH) was added to the monomer solution to a final concentration of 0.5% (w/w) and degassed in 200 μΐ aliquots for 15 mins. Cells were briefly incubated with the monomer solution plus VA-044 and transferred to a humidified chamber. Subsequently, the humidified chamber was purged with nitrogen gas. To initiate gelation, the humidified chamber was transferred to a 60 °C incubator for two hours. For gelling brain slices treated with LabelX, gelation was performed as in the original ExM protocol (since, with HCR amplification, the slight autofluorescence of APS/TEMED was negligible). Gelled cultured cells and brain slices were digested with Proteinase K (New England Biolabs) diluted 1 : 100 to 8 units/mL in digestion buffer (50 mM Tris (pH 8), 1 mM EDTA, 0.5% Triton X-100, 500 mM NaCl) and digestion was carried out overnight at 37 °C. The gels expand slightly in the high osmolarity digestion buffer (~1.5 x). After digestion, gels were stored in 1 χ PBS until use and expansion was carried out as previously described. smFISH Staining After Expansion;
Expanded gels were incubated with wash buffer (10% formamide, 2 SSC) for 30 mins at room temperature and hybridized with RNA FISH probes in hybridization buffer (10% formamide, 10% dextran sulfate, 2 SSC) overnight at 37 °C. Following hybridization, samples were washed twice with wash buffer, 30 minutes per wash, and washed once with 1 χ PBS for another 30 mins. Imaging was performed in 1 χ PBS.
Image Processing and Analysis of smFISH performed on Cultured Cells;
Widefield images of smFISH staining performed before or after expansion were first processed using a rolling-ball background subtraction algorithm (FIJI)38 with a 200 pixel radius. Subsequently, maximum intensity Z-projections of these images were generated. Spots were then localized and counted using a code developed by the Raj lab and available online (http://rajlab.seas.upenn.edu/StarSearch/launch.html). This image analysis was performed for Fig. 1C-E, Fig.2A-C, Fig. Fig. 5A-E, Fig. 6A-G, Fig. 7A-E, Fig. 9A-B, 1 1A- C.
Analysis of Expansion Isotropy;
smFISH images before and after expansion of TOP2A was rigidly aligned via two control points using the FIJI plugin Turboreg39. Spots were localized and counted via a custom spot counting Matlab code developed by the Raj lab (complete source code and instructions can be found at
https://bi tbucket org aijunraj I aboratory /raj I bimaaetools/wiki/Home). Length measurements were performed among all pairs of points before expansion and the corresponding pairs of points after expansion via a custom Matlab script. Measurement error was defined as the absolute difference between the before and after expansion length measurements (Fig. 8C).
Re-embedding of Expanded Gels in Acrylamide Matrix:
For serial staining in cells, expanded gels were re-embeded in acrylamide to stabilize the gels in the expanded state. Briefly: gels were expanded in water and cut manually to ~1 mm thickness with a stainless steel blade. Cut gels were incubated in 3% acrylamide, 0.15% Ν,Ν'- Methylenebisacrylamide with 0.05% APS, 0.05% TEMED and 5 mM Tris ph 10.5 for 20 minutes on a shaker. There is a -30% reduction in gel size during this step. Excess solution is removed from the gels and the gels are dried with light wicking from a laboratory wipe. Gels are placed on top of a bind-silane treated (see below) coverslip or glass bottom plate with a coverslip placed on top of the gels before moving into a container and purged with nitrogen. The container is moved to a 37 °C incubator for gelation for 1.5 hours.
Staining of Re-embedded Gels:
Re-embeded staining of gels were performed with exact conditions as described above for expanded gels, except post-hybridization washes were changed to twice with wash buffer (10% formamide), 60 minutes per wash.
Probes were removed for multiple rounds of hybridization via treatment with DNAse I or 100% formamide. For DNAse I, samples were treated with DNAse I at 0.5 υ/μί for 6 hours at RT. For formamide stripping, samples were treated with 100% formamide at 6 hours at 37C.
Bind-silane Treatment of Covers lips;
Coverslips and glass bottom 24 well plates were treated with Bind-Silane, a silanization reagent which incorporates acryloyl groups onto the surface of glass to perform in free radical polymerization. Briefly, 5 of Bind-Silane reagent was diluted into 8 mL of ethanol, 1.8 mL of ddFhO and 200 of acetic acid. Coverslips and glass bottom 24 well plates were washed with ddFhO followed by 100% ethanol, followed by the diluted Bind-Silane reagent. After a brief wash with the diluted Bind-Silane reagent, the cover-slip was dried, then washed with 100% ethanol, and then dried again. Coverslips were prepared immediately before use.
Probe Design for HCR-FISH;
Probe sequences and accession numbers for mRNA targets can be found in Table 4. Probes were designed for HCR-FISH by tiling the CDS of mRNA targets with 22-mer oligos spaced by 3-7 bases. HCR initiators were appended to tiled sequences via a 2 base spacer (AA). For 2 color probe-sets, even and odd tiled probes were assigned different HCR- initiators to allow for amplification in different color channel. RNA FISH with Hybridization Chain Reaction (HCR) Amplification;
Gelled samples were incubated with wash buffer (20% formamide, 2* SSC) for 30mins at room temperature and hybridized with HCR initiator tagged FISH probes in hybridization buffer (20% formamide, 10% dextran sulfate, 2* SSC) overnight at 37 °C Following hybridization, samples were washed twice with wash buffer, 30mins per wash, and incubated with 1 χ PBS for 2hrs at 37°C Subsequently, samples were incubated with 1 χ PBS for at least 6hrs at room temperature. Before HCR amplification, hybridized samples were pre-incubated with amplification buffer (10% dextran sulfate, 5* SSC, 0.1% Tween 20) for 30 mins. To initiate amplification, HCR hairpin stocks (Alexa 456 and Alexa 647
fiuorophores) at 3 μΜ were snap-cooled by heating to 95°C for 90 seconds, and leaving to cool at room temperature for 30 mins. Gelled samples were then incubated with HCR hairpins diluted to 60 nM in amplification buffer for 3hrs at room temperature. After amplification, gels were washed with 5* SSCT (5 x SSC, 0.1% Tween 20) twice with one hour per wash. Imaging of Cultured Cells using ExFISH;
Both cultured cells as well as LabelX treated and expanded cultured cells were imaged on a Nikon Ti-E epifluorescence microscope with a SPECTRA X light engine (Lumencor), and a 5.5 Zyla sCMOS camera (Andor), controlled by NIS-Elements AR software. For Figs. 1C, ID, and Figs. 6A-G, Figs. 7A-E, and Figs. 8-D a 40x 1.15 NA water immersion objective was used. For all other experiments with cultured cells, a 60* 1.4 NA oil immersion objective was used.
For imaging smFISH probes labeled with fiuorophores, the following filter cubes (Semrock, Rochester, NY) were used: Alexa 488, GFP-1828A-NTE-ZERO; Quasar 570, LF561 -B-000; Alexa 594, FITC/TXRED-2X-B-NTE; Atto 647N, Cy5-4040C-000.
Imaging of Expanded Brain Slices;
For epifluorescence imaging of brain sections before and after expansion (Fig. 3A-E) and to quantify expansion factors of tissue slices specimens were imaged on a Nikon Ti-E epifluorescence microscope with a 4* 0.2 NA air objective, a SPECTRA X light engine (Lumencor), and a 5.5 Zyla sCMOS camera (Andor), controlled by NIS-Elements AR software.
Post-expansion confocal imaging of expanded brain tissue was performed on an Andor spinning disk (CSU-X1 Yokogawa) confocal system with a 40 χ 1.15 NA water obj ective (Fig. 3F-K, Fig. 13A-G) on a Nikon TI-E microscope body. GFP was excited with a 488 nm laser, with 525/40 emission filter. Alexa 546 HCR amplicons were excited with a 561 nm laser with 607/36 emission filter. Alexa 647 amplicons were excited with a 640 nm laser with 685/40 emission filter.
Gels were expanded in with 3 washes, 15 minutes each of 0.05 x SSC. The expansion factor can be controlled with the salt concentration. It was found that 0.05 x SSC gives 3 x expansion, while still giving enough salt for hybridization stability. To stabilize the gels against drift during imaging following expansion, gels were placed in glass bottom 6 well plates with all excess liquid removed. If needed, liquid low melt agarose (2% w/w) was pipetted around the gel and allowed to solidify, to encase the gels before imaging.
Lightsheet imaging was performed on a Zeiss Z.1 lightsheet microscope. Briefly, the sample was fixed on a custom-made plastic holder using super glue and mounted on the freely rotating stage of the Z.1 lightsheet. Lightsheets were generated by two illumination obj ectives (5 x, NA 0.1), and the fluorescence signal detected by a 20x water immersion obj ective (NA 1.0). Both lightsheets were used for data collection. The image volume dimensions of a single tile were 1400* 1400* 1057 pixels, with a voxel size of 227 nm laterally and 469 nm axially. The laserlines used for excitation were 488 nm, 561 nm and 638 nm. The individual laser transmissions were set to 5%, with the maximum output of 50 mW (488 nm and 561 nm) and 75 mW (638 nm). Optical filters used to separate and clean the fluorescence response included a Chroma T5601pxr as a dichroic, and a Chroma 59001m for GFP and 59007m for Alexa 546 and Alexa 647. Two PCO.Edge 5.5m sCMOS cameras were used to capture two fluorescence channels simultaneously. Tiled datasets were taken with the Zeiss ZEN Software, and subsequently merged and processed with FIJI, Arivis Vision4D and Bitplane Imaris.
Two Color Analysis in Slices;
A sliding window averaging (or minimization) scheme in Z (3 optical sections) was used to suppress movement artifacts before spot detection processing. RNA puncta were detected via a custom 3D spot counting Matlab code developed by the Raj lab; complete source code and instructions can be found at
https://bitbucket.org/arjunrajlaboratory/rajlabimagetools/wiki/Home.
Spot centroids were extracted from both color channels, and spots were determined to be co-localized if their centroids were within a 3 pixel radius in the x,y dimensions and a 2 pixel radius in the z dimension. HCR Reversal via Toe-Hold Mediated Strand Displacement;
HCR amplification commences upon the addition of two HCR metastable amplifier hairpins. We designed a pair of HCR amplifiers, B2H1T and B2H2 (see below for sequence), where B2H1T bears a 6bp toe-hold for strand displacement. To initiate HCR amplification, aliquots of these amplifiers at 3 μΜ were snap-cooled by heating to 95 °C for 90 seconds, and leaving to cool at room temperature for 30 mins. Gelled samples were then incubated with HCR hairpins diluted to 60 nM in amplification buffer for 3hrs at room temperature. After amplification, gels were washed with 5* SSCT (5 x SSC, 0.1% Tween 20) twice with one hour per wash. Subsequently, HCR reversal was initiated by the addition of a displacement strand (see below for sequence) at 200 nM in 5* SSCT.
B2H1T:
ggCggm¾C7 gATgATTgATgAggATTTACgAggAgCTCAgTCCATCCTCgTAAATCCT CATCAATCATCAAATAG. B2H2:
/5'-Alexa546-C12/
CCTCgTAAATCCTCATCAATCATCCAgTAAACCgCCgATgATTgATgAggATTTACgA ggATggACTgAgCT.
Displacement Strand:
CTATTTGATGATTGATGAGGATTTAcGAGGATGGAcTGAGcT.
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Claims

CLAIMS What is claimed is:
1. A method for in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment of target nucleic acids present in a biological sample comprising the steps of:
a) treating the biological sample with a small molecule linker capable of linking to at least one target nucleic acid and to a swellable material; b) embedding the biological sample wherein the small molecule linker is bound to the at least one target nucleic acid in the biological sample and to the swellable material;
c) subjecting the biological sample to a physical disruption method; d) swelling the swellable material to form an expanded biological sample;
e) providing at least one oligonucleotide complementary to the at least one target nucleic acid, wherein the at least one oligonucleotide hybridizes to the at least one target nucleic acid; and
f) genomically or transcriptomically assessing the expanded biological sample.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the small molecule linkers are attached to target nucleic acids via a chemical reactive group capable of covalently binding the target nucleic acid.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the small molecule linker is labeled.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one oligonucleotide is labeled.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein embedding the biological sample in a swellable material comprises permeating the biological sample with a composition comprising precursors of a swellable polymer and forming a swellable polymer in situ.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one target nucleic acid is
anchored to the swellable material.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the physical disruption method is an
enzymatic digestion.
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the target nucleic acids are DNA and/or RNA.
9. The method according to claim 3, wherein the expanded biological sample expresses one or more labeled target nucleic acids.
10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the additional step of buffering the expanded sample.
1 1. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the additional step of re- embedding the buffered expanded biological sample in a non-swellable material.
12. The method according to claim 1 1, further comprising the step of removing the at least one oligonucleotide complementary to the at least one target nucleic acid.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the steps of providing at least one
oligonucleotide, genomically or transcriptomically assessing the expanded biological sample and removing the at least one oligonucleotide are repeated so as to allow serial or sequential genomic or transcriptomic assessments of the expanded biological sample.
14. The method of claim 12, wherem removing the at least one oligonucleotide which is hybridized to the at least one target nucleic acid comprises formamide and high temperatures.
15. The method of claim 12, wherein removing the at least one oligonucleotide which is hv bridi ed to the at least one target nucleic acid comprises endonucleases that specifically digest the at least one oligonucleotide.
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