Cell Reports MethodsPub Date : 2025-07-21Epub Date: 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101085
Ioanna Gemünd, Lorenzo Bonaguro, Matthias Becker, Sophie Müller, Clemens Joos, Elena De Domenico, Anna C Aschenbrenner, Joachim L Schultze, Andreas Moosmann, Marc D Beyer
{"title":"Characterization of human CMV-specific CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells using multi-layer single-cell omics.","authors":"Ioanna Gemünd, Lorenzo Bonaguro, Matthias Becker, Sophie Müller, Clemens Joos, Elena De Domenico, Anna C Aschenbrenner, Joachim L Schultze, Andreas Moosmann, Marc D Beyer","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101085","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101085","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we established a comprehensive workflow to collect multi-omics single-cell data using a commercially available micro-well-based platform. This included whole transcriptome, cell surface markers (targeted sequencing-based cell surface proteomics), T cell specificities, adaptive immune receptor repertoire (AIRR) profiles, and sample multiplexing. With this technique, we identified paired T cell receptor sequences for three prominent human CMV epitopes. In addition, we assessed the ability of dCODE dextramers to detect antigen-specific T cells at low frequencies by estimating sensitivities and specificities when used as reagents for single-cell multi-omics.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":" ","pages":"101085"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296424/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144486215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell Reports MethodsPub Date : 2025-07-21Epub Date: 2025-07-10DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101104
Lorena Alamillo, Dominic C M Ng, Jordan Currie, Alexander Black, Boomathi Pandi, Vyshnavi Manda, Jay Pavelka, Peyton Schaal, Joshua G Travers, Timothy A McKinsey, Maggie P Y Lam, Edward Lau
{"title":"Deuterium labeling enables proteome-wide turnover kinetics analysis in cell culture.","authors":"Lorena Alamillo, Dominic C M Ng, Jordan Currie, Alexander Black, Boomathi Pandi, Vyshnavi Manda, Jay Pavelka, Peyton Schaal, Joshua G Travers, Timothy A McKinsey, Maggie P Y Lam, Edward Lau","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101104","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Protein turnover is a critical component of gene expression regulation and cellular homeostasis, yet methods for measuring turnover rates that are scalable and applicable to different models are still needed. We introduce an improved D<sub>2</sub>O (heavy water) labeling strategy to investigate the landscape of protein turnover in cell culture, with accurate calibration of per-residue deuterium incorporation in multiple cell types. Applying this method, we mapped the proteome-wide turnover landscape of pluripotent and differentiating human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Our analysis highlights the role of APC/C (anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome) and SPOP (speckle-type POZ protein) degrons in the fast turnover of cell-cycle-related and DNA-binding hiPSC proteins. Upon pluripotency exit, many short-lived hiPSC proteins are depleted, while RNA-binding and -splicing proteins become hyperdynamic. The ability to identify fast-turnover proteins also facilitates secretome profiling, as exemplified in hiPSC-cardiomyocyte and primary human cardiac fibroblast analysis. This method is broadly applicable to protein turnover studies in primary, pluripotent, and transformed cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":" ","pages":"101104"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296481/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144620804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell Reports MethodsPub Date : 2025-07-21Epub Date: 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101090
Fanju W Meng, Paige Schneider, Xiaolu Wei, Krishan Ariyasiri, Marnie E Halpern, Patrick J Murphy
{"title":"TransTag enables simple and efficient transgene mapping in zebrafish via tagmentation.","authors":"Fanju W Meng, Paige Schneider, Xiaolu Wei, Krishan Ariyasiri, Marnie E Halpern, Patrick J Murphy","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101090","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Zebrafish has become a preeminent model for developmental biology research, largely due to the ease of transgenesis. Despite widespread usage of transgenic lines, mapping of transgene insertion sites is rare, which raises complications involving potential local chromatin influences on transgene expression, off-target effects, and issues with allelic variation. To address these shortcomings, we introduce TransTag, a simple and efficient method utilizing Tn5 transposase-mediated tagmentation, for the streamlined identification of Tol2-based transgene insertion sites in zebrafish. TransTag is straightforward to perform and can identify insertion sites without the need for the alignment of raw sequencing data. We also provide a detailed protocol for TransTag, a step-by-step guide for data analysis, and a user-friendly Shiny app, making transgene mapping achievable at a low cost for researchers without programming expertise. Altogether, TransTag emerges as a valuable tool to enhance the precision and utility of transgenesis studies by providing essential chromosome-specific information on transgene locations.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":" ","pages":"101090"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296462/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144601757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell Reports MethodsPub Date : 2025-07-21Epub Date: 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101089
Andreas Zamanos, Panagiotis Koromilas, Giorgos Bouritsas, Panagiotis L Kastritis, Yannis Panagakis
{"title":"Self-supervised learning for generalizable particle picking in cryo-EM micrographs.","authors":"Andreas Zamanos, Panagiotis Koromilas, Giorgos Bouritsas, Panagiotis L Kastritis, Yannis Panagakis","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present cryoelectron microscopy masked autoencoder (cryo-EMMAE), a self-supervised method designed to overcome the need for manually annotated cryo-EM data. cryo-EMMAE leverages the representation space of a masked autoencoder to pick particle pixels through clustering of the MAE latent representation. Evaluation across different EMPIAR datasets demonstrates that cryo-EMMAE outperforms state-of-the-art supervised methods in terms of generalization capabilities. Importantly, our method showcases consistent performance, independent of the dataset used for training. Additionally, cryo-EMMAE is data efficient, as we experimentally observe that it converges with as few as five micrographs. Further, 3D reconstruction results indicate that our method has superior performance in reconstructing the volumes in both single-particle datasets and multi-particle micrographs derived from cell extracts. Our results underscore the potential of self-supervised learning in advancing cryo-EM image analysis, offering an alternative for more efficient and cost-effective structural biology research. Code is available at https://github.com/azamanos/Cryo-EMMAE.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":" ","pages":"101089"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296464/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell Reports MethodsPub Date : 2025-07-21Epub Date: 2025-07-15DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101106
Pengkai Sun, Bin Wang, Caiyun Liu, Zixiong Wang, Yang Liu, Yuan-Biao Qiao, Xinjian Li
{"title":"A fluorescent STING ligand sensor for high-throughput screening of compounds that can enhance tumor immunotherapy.","authors":"Pengkai Sun, Bin Wang, Caiyun Liu, Zixiong Wang, Yang Liu, Yuan-Biao Qiao, Xinjian Li","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101106","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The activation of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway triggers the release of type I interferons that can potentiate the host immune response against tumors. STING agonism is therefore a promising strategy for the development of cancer immunotherapy; however, sensitive tools and assays for the discovery of STING modulators are currently limited. Here, we develop and characterize a STING ligand sensor, FiSL, to detect STING ligands in vitro. Utilizing FiSL, we identify honokiol, a natural compound derived from Magnolia species, as an orally available STING agonist from a bioactive compound library. Functional studies reveal that honokiol exerts antitumor activity in a STING-dependent manner. Moreover, in STING-humanized mouse tumor models, honokiol enhances the efficacy of anti-PD-(L)1 immunotherapy. Collectively, we have developed FiSL as a tool for high-throughput screening of STING ligands and revealed honokiol as a STING agonist that can be harnessed to treat human cancer.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":" ","pages":"101106"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296492/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144650746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combination of in vivo and in vitro phosphoproteomics determines the PP2A target repertoire on proteome scale.","authors":"Melanie Brunner, Zehan Hu, Heidy Elkhaligy, Gloria Lampo, Carole Roubaty, Christine Vionnet, Devanarayanan Siva Sankar, Sean J McIlwain, Stéphanie Kaeser-Pebernard, Yongna Xing, Jörn Dengjel","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dynamics of protein phosphorylation are regulated by the interplay of kinases and phosphatases. Current mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomic approaches are extremely powerful in identifying and quantifying tens of thousands of phosphosites in single biological samples. However, whereas the mapping of phosphosites is successfully automated supporting high sample throughput, the characterization of responsible kinases and phosphatases still largely depends on laborious protein biochemical assays. To show direct (de)phosphorylation events, in vitro kinase or phosphatase assays using single substrates or peptide arrays are often used. Here, we describe the development of an in vitro phosphatase assay using whole proteome under native conditions as input. We employ this approach to study the PP1 and PP2A target repertoire, characterizing thousands of potential target sites. Focusing on PPP2R5E/B56ε-containing complexes, we combine in vitro with in vivo phosphoproteomics to characterize bona fide target sites, which highlight the role of PP2A in regulating stress granule assembly.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":" ","pages":"101084"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296510/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144337124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell Reports MethodsPub Date : 2025-07-21Epub Date: 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101105
Dafne Barozzi, Fiorella Scagnoli, Federica Barbaglio, Daniela Belloni, Davide Ribezzi, Silvia Farè, Valeria Berno, Riccardo Pinos, Marta Sampietro, Margherita Pauri, Barbara Vergani, Francesco Mantegazza, Paolo Ghia, Cristina Scielzo
{"title":"Dynamic stimulation promotes functional tissue-like organization of a 3D human lymphoid microenvironment model in vitro.","authors":"Dafne Barozzi, Fiorella Scagnoli, Federica Barbaglio, Daniela Belloni, Davide Ribezzi, Silvia Farè, Valeria Berno, Riccardo Pinos, Marta Sampietro, Margherita Pauri, Barbara Vergani, Francesco Mantegazza, Paolo Ghia, Cristina Scielzo","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101105","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This work focused on generating a three-dimensional (3D) in vitro dynamic model to study chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cell dissemination, homing, and mechanisms of therapy resistance. We used a gelatin-based, hard porous biomaterial as a support matrix to develop 3D tissue-like models of the human lymph node and bone marrow, which were matured inside bioreactors under dynamic perfusion of medium. Comparing static and dynamic cultures of these 3D constructs revealed that perfusion promoted a tissue-like internal organization of cells, characterized by the expression of specific functional markers and deposition of an intricate extracellular matrix protein network. Recirculation of CLL cells within the dynamic system led to changes in leukemic cell behavior and in the expression of key markers involved in tumor progression. These findings suggest that the model is well suited for investigating the pathophysiological mechanisms of CLL and potentially other hematological malignancies.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":" ","pages":"101105"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296514/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144620805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell Reports MethodsPub Date : 2025-07-21Epub Date: 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101080
Calina Glynn, Jake L R Smith, Matthew Case, Rebecca Csöndör, Ana Katsini, Maria E Sanita, Thomas S Glen, Avery Pennington, Michael Grange
{"title":"A generalizable and targeted molecular biopsy approach for in situ cryogenic electron tomography of vitreous brain tissue.","authors":"Calina Glynn, Jake L R Smith, Matthew Case, Rebecca Csöndör, Ana Katsini, Maria E Sanita, Thomas S Glen, Avery Pennington, Michael Grange","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101080","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cellular cryogenic electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables the capture of detailed structural information within a biologically relevant environment. However, information in more complex samples, such as multicellular specimens and tissues, is lacking. Importantly, these observations need to be set in the context of populations. Currently, imaging on the molecular scale is limited to a few observations in situ that struggle to be generalized. This is due to limitations in throughput and versatility employed by current instrumentation. Here, we utilize plasma focused ion beam milling to examine the molecular landscape of mouse hippocampus by cryo-ET. We reveal the complex organization of macromolecules in targeted regions across CA1 stratum pyramidale (sp) to radiatum (sr), representing a molecular atlas of hippocampal architecture in adult mice. The combination of instrumentation and application of technical advancements provides a framework to explore specific structural questions within other tissues in a targeted manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":" ","pages":"101080"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296509/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NanoFLUID is a flexible bioelectronic delivery patch.","authors":"Rui Ye, Yupei Zhang, Shugang Qin","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Typical drug-delivery methods are constrained by low efficiency, poor dose control, and off-target effects that in turn severely impact therapeutic efficacy. In a recent issue of Nature, Yin et al. present the NanoFLUID patch, a flexible low-voltage bioelectronic drug-delivery device that has potential applications ranging from therapy to genomics.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":"5 7","pages":"101112"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296423/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144691721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell Reports MethodsPub Date : 2025-07-21Epub Date: 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101086
Helena Reyes-Gopar, Jez L Marston, Bhavya Singh, Matthew Greenig, Jonah Lin, Mario A Ostrowski, Kipchoge N Randall, Santiago Sandoval-Motta, Nicholas Dopkins, Elsa Lawrence, Morgan M O'Mara, Tongyi Fei, Rodrigo R R Duarte, Timothy R Powell, Enrique Hernández-Lemus, Luis P Iñiguez, Douglas F Nixon, Matthew L Bendall
{"title":"A single-cell transposable element atlas of human cell identity.","authors":"Helena Reyes-Gopar, Jez L Marston, Bhavya Singh, Matthew Greenig, Jonah Lin, Mario A Ostrowski, Kipchoge N Randall, Santiago Sandoval-Motta, Nicholas Dopkins, Elsa Lawrence, Morgan M O'Mara, Tongyi Fei, Rodrigo R R Duarte, Timothy R Powell, Enrique Hernández-Lemus, Luis P Iñiguez, Douglas F Nixon, Matthew L Bendall","doi":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crmeth.2025.101086","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is revolutionizing the study of complex biological systems. However, most sequencing studies overlook the contribution of transposable element (TE) expression to the transcriptome. The quantification of locus-specific TE expression in scRNA-seq experiments is challenging due to their repetitive sequence content and poorly characterized annotations. Here, we developed a computational tool for single-cell transposable element locus-level analysis of scRNA sequencing (Stellarscope) that reassigns multimapped reads to specific genomic loci using an expectation maximization algorithm. Using Stellarscope, we built an atlas of TE expression in human PBMCs. We found that locus-specific TEs delineate cell types and define cell subsets not identified by standard mRNA expression profiles. Altogether, this study provides comprehensive insights into the influence of TEs in human biology at the single-cell level.</p>","PeriodicalId":29773,"journal":{"name":"Cell Reports Methods","volume":" ","pages":"101086"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12296447/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}