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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2024

HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples.

Samuel J Schulte, Mark E Fornace, John K Hall, Grace J Shin, Niles A Pierce

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samuel J SchulteDivision of Biology & Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9982-6504
Mark E FornaceDivision of Biology & Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5829-5839
John K HallDivision of Biology & Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-5120-5940
Grace J ShinDivision of Biology & Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-7778-6328
Niles A PierceDivision of Biology & Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2367-4406
California Institute of Technology · US

Funding

UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM008042 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI AJIJOLA, OLUJIMI A, DAWSON, DAVID WAYNE · 1985 to 2023
$29.9M
Hybridization Chain Reaction: In Situ Amplification for Biological ImagingR01EB006192 · NIBIB · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI PIERCE, NILES A · 2005 to 2022
$5.2M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB006192NIGMS NIH HHS GM008042NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008042
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Signal amplification based on the mechanism of hybridization chain reaction (HCR) provides a unified framework for multiplex, quantitative, high-resolution imaging of RNA and protein targets in highly autofluorescent samples. With conventional bandpass imaging, multiplexing is typically limited to four or five targets owing to the difficulty in separating signals generated by fluorophores with overlapping spectra. Spectral imaging has offered the conceptual promise of higher levels of multiplexing, but it has been challenging to realize this potential in highly autofluorescent samples, including whole-mount vertebrate embryos. Here, we demonstrate robust HCR spectral imaging with linear unmixing, enabling simultaneous imaging of ten RNA and/or protein targets in whole-mount zebrafish embryos and mouse brain sections. Further, we demonstrate that the amplified and unmixed signal in each of the ten channels is quantitative, enabling accurate and precise relative quantitation of RNA and/or protein targets with subcellular resolution, and RNA absolute quantitation with single-molecule resolution, in the anatomical context of highly autofluorescent samples.

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Diagnostic ImagingZebrafishAnimalsEmbryo, MammalianMiceNucleic Acid HybridizationRNARNAdHCR imagingImmunofluorescenceMouse brain sectionsqHCR imagingRNA-FISHRNA fluorescence in situ hybridizationWhole-mount zebrafish embryos

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PMID38415752
PMCPMC10941662
OpenAlexW4392244183

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