Optogenetic perturbations of RNA expression in tissue space
Legnini, I.; Emmenegger, L.; Wurmus, R.; Zappulo, A.; Oliveras Martinez, A.; Cerda Jara, C.; Boltengagen, A.; Hessler, T.; Mastrobuoni, G.; Rybak-Wolf, A.; Kempa, S.; Zinzen, R. P.; Woehler, A.; Rajewsky, N.
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Organoids derived from stem cells become increasingly important to study human development and to model disease. However, methods are needed to control and study spatio-temporal patterns of gene expression in organoids. To this aim, we combined optogenetics and gene perturbation technologies to activate or knock-down RNA of target genes, at single-cell resolution and in programmable spatio-temporal patterns. To illustrate the usefulness of our approach, we locally activated Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) signaling in an organoid model for human neurodevelopment. High-resolution spatial transcriptomic and single-cell analyses showed that this local induction was sufficient to generate stereotypically patterned organoids in three dimensions and revealed new insights into SHHs contribution to gene regulation in neurodevelopment. With this study, we propose optogenetic perturbations in combination with spatial transcriptomics as a powerful technology to reprogram and study cell fates and tissue patterning in organoids.
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