Aug 01, 2023
Nuclei Isolation and Affinity Purification for 10X Sequencing
- Lakme Caceres1
- 1Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Protocol Citation: Lakme Caceres 2023. Nuclei Isolation and Affinity Purification for 10X Sequencing . protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.4r3l22ojpl1y/v1
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: In development
We are still developing and optimizing this protocol
Created: July 31, 2023
Last Modified: August 01, 2023
Protocol Integer ID: 85719
Keywords: isolating nuclei, affinity purification for 10x, affinity purification, sequencing application, nuclei, purification, isolation
Abstract
This protocol is for isolating nuclei for downstream sequencing applications.
Guidelines
Keep tissue/nuclei on ice as much as possible.
Materials
Dynabeads - 4C
anti-GFP - 4C (roche)
Triton X 100 - 4C
DTT - 4C
RNAsin -20C
Troubleshooting
Prepare Stock Solutions
Make 20 mL 10% BSA by combining 2 mL of BSA with 18 mL of MilliQ water in a 50 mL falcon tube. (4°C - 2 weeks)
Make 20 mL 10% Triton X-100 by combining 18 mL MilliQ water with 2 mL Triton X-100 in a 50 mL tube. Vortex and then incubate at room temperature for 20 minutes. Filter it through a 0.22 μm filter with a syringe into a clean 50 mL tube. (4°C - 1 month)
Make 250 mL Nuclear Isolation Media by filling a 250 mL bottle with 200 mL of MilliQ water and then adding 2.5 mL 1M Tris, 6.26 mL 1M KCl, 1.25 mL 1M MgCl2, and 21.45 g Sucrose. Shake until sucrose is dissolved then fill to 250 mL with MilliQ water. (4°C - 2 weeks)
Make 50 mL Citrate-Phosphate Buffer (pH 5) by adding 0.48 g Citric Acid and 0.91 g Dibasic Sodium Phosphate Dihydrate to a falcon tube and then filling it to 50 mL with MilliQ water. Titrate the pH with NaOH using the pH meter. Calibrate the pH meter before titrating by dipping in pH 3, 7, and 10. Make sure to wash the pH meter with water in between each measurement. (4°C - 1 month)
Immunoprecipitation Prep
Vortex stock of Dynabeads Protein G and then add 5 uL to a 1.5 mL eppendorf. Place it on the mag rack for a minute and discard the supernatant remaining at the bottom of the tube without disturbing the beads.
Remove the tube from the magnet and resuspend the beads with 500 uL of Citrate Phosphate Buffer. Place the tube back on the mag rack for a minute and discard the supernatant. Repeat this step once more.
Add 100 uL of 1X PBS and 2 uL anti-GFP to the washed Dynabeads. Add this to the rotator in the 4°C fridge and let it incubate for 1 hour. Proceed with nuclei isolation while the beads incubate.
Prepare Fresh Solutions
Make 3 mL Homogenization Buffer per sample by adding 2.9 mL Nuclear Isolation Media (filtered via syringe) to a 5 mL eppendorf. Then add 3 μL 100 mM DTT and 30 μL 10% Triton X-100. Add 15 uL RNAsin and invert to mix. Store on ice.
Make 200 uL Blocking Buffer per sample by dividing your total desired volume of blocking buffer by 10 to get the amount of 10% BSA in uL. Add this amount to a tube and then fill the remainder with 1X PBS.
Homogenization
Clean dounce, scalpel, and forceps using MilliQ water, ethanol, RNase Zap, then MilliQ again. The red-tape forceps are for unfixed tissue.
Get tissue sample from -80°C freezer and place on dry ice. Weigh it on a sterile, tared weigh boat.
Add tissue to dounce and push it to the bottom using 1 mL of Homegenization Buffer and the pestle. Homogenize the tissue without creating bubbles. Then add the remaining 2 mL of the Homogenization Buffer and continue to dounce until homogenized.
Pass all of the nuclei suspension through three FlowMi filters, 1000 μL at a time into a new 5 mL eppendorf.
Centrifuge at 900 g/rcf for 10 minutes at 4°C.
Discard the supernatant and resuspend the pellet in 210 μL Blocking Buffer. Incubate for 10 minutes on ice.
Cell Count
Add 9 uL of sample to a PCR tube and then add 1 uL of acridine orange.
If sample is very concentrated, instead add 2 uL sample to 2 uL of acridine orange and 16 uL 1X PBS.
Pipette mix and then add the total volume to a three-chamber cell counting chip and make note of the channels used (A, B, and/or C).
On the cell counter, select Fluorescence Cell Counting -> Cell Lines & Primary Cells, Advanced-> Protocol -> and then choose "NUCLEI" from the list of protocols. Load the protocol.
If the sample is very concentrated and you are adding 2 uL, select Fluorescence Cell Counting -> Cell Lines & Primary Cells-> Protocol -> and then choose "NUCLEI" from the protocol list. Load the protocol.
Then go to Settings and choose the appropriate number of channels.
Then hit "Count" and then "Start Count."
When the cell count is complete, you will get a reading in cells/mL. Convert this to cells/uL by dividing this number by 1,000.
Save approximately 40,000 nuclei from the original sample to use as our unpurified population for sequencing. (If the concentration was 1,000 cells/uL, then save 40 uL).
If there are channels left on the cell counter chip, mark the used channels on the back and place it back in the drawer for future use.
Immunoprecipitation
After the one hour incubation of the beads and the aliquoting of nuclei for the unpurified population, place the incubated dynabeads tube on the 1.5mL magnet for 2 minutes and discard the supernatant without disturbing the beads.
Wash with 100 uL 1X PBS Buffer, enough to submerge the beads while they are on the rack. Discard the supernatant.
Add the total volume of nuclei sample to the beads. Incubate on the rotator in the 4°C fridge for 1 hour.
After incubation, place the samples on the mag rack for 2 minutes. Collect the supernatant in appropriately labeled eppendorf tubes. This will be our supernatant population for sequencing.
Wash the bead tubes with enough 1X PBS to submerge the beads (don't resuspend) and then discard the supernatant.
Remove the tubes from the rack and then resuspend the beads in 50 uL 1X PBS.
Cell Count
Take another cell count of the supernatant and bead-bound samples. Reverse pipette to record their exact volumes.
Dilute all of the samples (unpurified, supernatant, and bead-bound), if necessary, to 1,000 cells/uL. The bead-bound population likely won't need dilution.
Proceed with 10X RNAseq or ATACseq protocols.
Protocol references
Adapted from the Allen and Thermofisher protocols.