Journal: Genome Biology
Article Title: In vivo perturb-seq of cancer and microenvironment cells dissects oncologic drivers and radiotherapy responses in glioblastoma
doi: 10.1186/s13059-024-03404-6
Figure Lengend Snippet: In vivo perturb-seq after tumor establishment using convection enhanced delivery. A Schematic of in vivo CED perturb-seq workflow against target genes nominated by genome-scale CRISPRi screens, combined with treatment with or without 2 Gy × 5 fractions of radiotherapy. B Integrated scRNA-seq UMAP of malignant and stromal/microenvironment cells from orthotopic GL261 tumors following CED, including sorted and unsorted cells. C Confocal image of GL261 orthotopic tumor transduced with a sgRNA library tagged with EGFP. Scale bar, 100 μm. D Integrated scRNA-seq UMAP of malignant and stromal/microenvironment cells from B overlayed with BFP (marker for dCas9-KRAB; left) or sgRNA (right) expression levels. E Distribution of mean on-target knockdown levels for all in vivo CED perturbations in either treatment condition. Box plots show 1st quartile, median, and 3rd quartile; whiskers represent 1.5 inter-quartile range. p values indicate Mann–Whitney U test compared to non-targeting controls. F Bubble plot of gene set enrichment analyses of gene expression modules (rows) following sgRNA perturbations (columns) without radiotherapy for in vivo CED perturb-seq. Expression represents log 2 fold change normalized to non-targeting controls. Top bar charts show mRNA remaining of target gene, growth (gamma), radiation (tau), and radiation to growth ratio (rho) in vitro screen phenotypes. Gene ontology of perturbed target genes indicated. G As in E but in radiotherapy conditions. Perturbation phenotypes were normalized to cells from irradiated tumors that expressed non-targeting sgRNAs following CED. H L2-norm synergy scores for each sgRNA perturbation across all experimental contexts (in vitro, in vivo pre-infected, in vivo CED)
Article Snippet: Protospacer sequences were selected from the optimized mouse CRISPRi v2 library [ ], and the top two scoring sgRNAs for each target gene based on depletion or enrichment phenotypes were cloned into dual sgRNA lentivirus expression vectors with direct capture tags (Addgene 187241) [ ] using NEBuilder HiFi DNA Assembly Master Mix (New England Biolabs #E2621L) (Table S2).
Techniques: In Vivo, Convection, Transduction, Marker, Expressing, Knockdown, MANN-WHITNEY, Gene Expression, In Vitro, Irradiation, Infection