Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39847624›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2025

Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria.

Ari Sarfatis, Yuanyou Wang, Nana Twumasi-Ankrah, Jeffrey R Moffitt

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 63 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ari Sarfatis *Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2793-0550
Yuanyou Wang *Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9774-7877
Nana Twumasi-AnkrahProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1563-4172
Jeffrey R MoffittProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3836-3101

Funding

VectorP30CA006516 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI Irene M. Ghobrial · 1985 to 2026
$330.6M
STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ALIMENTARY TRACTP30DK034854 · NIDDK · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI JONATHAN C KAGAN · 1986 to 2026
$32.4M
Training Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative GenomicsT32HG002295 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Peter J Park · 2001 to 2026
$15.8M
Rapid, Robust, and Routine: Multiplexed Microscopy for Spatially Resolved Whole-Transcriptomic Single-Cell Profiling and the Construction of Cell Atlases of all Tissues and in all OrganismsR01GM143277 · NIGMS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI MOFFITT, JEFFREY · 2021 to 2024
$1.6M
A spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomic technique for microbial pathogenesisR21AI166230 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI MOFFITT, JEFFREY · 2022 to 2023
$487k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006516NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG002295NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI166230NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK034854NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM143277
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell decisions made in complex environments underlie many bacterial phenomena. Image-based transcriptomics approaches offer an avenue to study such behaviors, yet these approaches have been hindered by the massive density of bacterial messenger RNA. To overcome this challenge, we combined 1000-fold volumetric expansion with multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH) to create bacterial-MERFISH. This method enables high-throughput, spatially resolved profiling of thousands of operons within individual bacteria. Using bacterial-MERFISH, we dissected the response of

Indexed as

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicronEscherichia coliGene Expression ProfilingIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceSingle-Cell AnalysisTranscriptomeAnimalsCarbonColonMiceOperonRNA, BacterialRNA, MessengerCarbonRNA, BacterialRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID39847624
PMCPMC12278067

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