Multimodal screen reveals noise regulatory proteins
Garcia-Blay, O.; Hu, X.; Wassermann, C. L.; van Bokhoven, T.; Struijs, F. M. B.; Hansen, M. M. K.
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Gene-expression noise can influence cell-fate choices across pathology and physiology. However, a crucial question persists: do regulatory proteins or pathways exist that control noise independently of mean expression levels? Our integrative approach, combining single-cell RNA sequencing with proteomics and regulator enrichment analysis, reveals 32 putative noise regulators. SON, a nuclear speckle-associated protein, alters transcriptional noise without changing mean expression levels. Furthermore, SONs noise regulation can propagate to the protein level. Long-read and total RNA sequencing shows that SONs noise regulation does not significantly change isoform usage or splicing efficiency. Moreover, SON depletion reduces state-switching in pluripotent mouse embryonic stem cells and impacts their fate choice during differentiation. Collectively, we discover a class of proteins that regulates noise orthogonally to mean expression levels. This work serves as a proof-of-concept that can identify other functional noise-regulators throughout development and disease progression.
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