Advancements in prospective single-cell lineage barcoding and their applications in research

Table 1.

Summary of prospective single-cell lineage tracing studies using viral DNA barcoding

Study Editing system Method Read out Barcode type MOI In vitro or in vivo (species) Sequencing Reference
Zebrafish embryo lineage development Transposon TracerSeq scRNA-seq GFP + 20 bp ∼54% of cells with barcode Zebrafish InDrops
Illumina
Wagner et al. (2018)
Lineage-linked cancer transcriptome plasticity Episome BdLT-Seq scRNA-seq GFP + 12 bp 0.05 In vitro 10 × 3′ Shlyakhtina et al. (2023)
Mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) reprogramming Lentivirus CellTag scRNA-seq GFP + 8 bp 3–4 In vitro Drop-seq, 10 × 3′ Biddy et al. (2018)
Multiple samples with species mixing for sample multiplexing Lentivirus CellTag scRNA-seq
snRNA-seq
GFP + 8 bp 0.5% of cells with barcode In vitro and mouse 10 × 3′ Guo et al. (2019)
Nature protocol from Morris Lentivirus CellTag scRNA-seq GFP + 8 bp 3–4 In vitro 10 × 3′ Kong et al. (2020)
Fate-specific gene regulatory changes in MEF to endoderm transition Lentivirus CellTag-multi scRNA-seq/scATAC-seq GFP + read 1N + 28 bp + read 2N + RT priming site ∼2.25 In vitro 10x multiome Jindal et al. (2023)
Mouse hematopoietic differentiation Lentivirus LARRY scRNA-seq GFP + 28 bp 98% of cells with GFP signal In vitro and mouse InDrops
Illumina
Weinreb et al. (2020)
Mouse brain developmental neurogenesis Lentivirus TREX/Space-TREX scRNA-seq/STa EGFP + 30 bp NA Mouse 10 × 3′ Ratz et al. (2022)
Stem cell hierarchies in rhabdomyosarcoma Lentivirus LARRY scRNA-seq GFP + 28 bp 0.3 In vitro 10 × 3′ Wei et al. (2022)
Clonal dynamics in tumor evolution and treatment (CLL) Lentivirus ClonMapper scRNA-seq CROP-seq sgRNA barcodes with BFP + 20 bp 0.1 In vitro 10 × 3′ Gutierrez et al. (2021)
Cell fate in melanoma drug resistance Lentivirus Rewind RNA FISH GFP + gDNA (100 bp) <0.5 In vitro Targeted DNA-seq Emert et al. (2021)
Cycling persister cells in lung cancer drug resistance Lentivirus Watermelon scRNA-seq live cell imaging mNeonGFP + 90 bp (semirandom seq) 0.3 In vitro 10 × 3′ Oren et al. (2021)
Clonal diversity in TNBC primary and metastatic tumors Lentivirus Viral barcoding scRNA-seq GFP + 98 bp (semirandom seq) 0.1–0.2 Mouse 10 × 3′ Merino et al. (2019)
Malignant clonal fitness in AML Lentivirus SPLINTR scRNA-seq GFP, BFP or mCherry + 60 bp (semirandom seq) 0.02–0.1 In vitro and mouse 10 × 3′ Fennell et al. (2022)
Mathematical framework to predict cancer therapeutic resistance Lentivirus COLBERT scRNA-seq BFP + 20 bp gRNA <0.1 In vitro 10 × 3′ Johnson et al. (2020)
Rates, routes and drivers of lung metastasis in xenografts Lentivirus Cas9-based recorder scRNA-seq BFP + 205 bp triple-gRNAs ∼0.5 Mouse 10 × 3′ Quinn et al. (2021)
  • a(ST) Spatial transcriptomics.

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