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(51)InternationalPatentClassification:
G01N33/58(2006.01)G01N33/50(2006.01)(21)InternationalApplicationNumber:
PCT/EP2019/060532
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24April2019(24.04.2019)
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24April2018(24.04.2018)
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71,8006Zurich(CH).(72)Inventors:GUT,Gabriele;UniversityofZurichWin-terthurerstrasse190,8057Zurich(CH).PELKMANS,Lu?cas;UniversityofZurichWinterthurerstrasse190,8057Zurich(CH).HERRMANN,Markus;MGH&BWHCen-terforClinicalDataScience100CambridgeSt,Boston,MA02114(US).(74)Agent:SCHULZJUNGHANSPATENTANWALTE
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(54)Title:ITERATIVEFLUORESCENCEIMAGING
(57)Abstract:Theinventionrelatestoamethodformultiplexstainingofabiologicalsampleinvolvingtheuseofabuffercombinationofblockingbuffer,imagingbufferandelutionbufferthatallowsformultiplestainingroundsofbiologicalsamples.Theblockingbuffercomprisesacompoundthatiscapableofbindingtohydrophobicbindingsitesnon-specificallyandasulfhydryl-reactivecompound.TheimagingbufferisatneutralpHandcomprisesaradicalscavenger,andtheelutionbufferisatpHlowerthan4andcomprisesabufferingcomponent,areducingagentandatleastonecompounddisruptinghydrogenbonds.Theinventionfurtherrelatestobuffersusedinthepracticeofthemethodoftheinvention,andtoakitcontainingthesebuffers.
IterativeFluorescenceImaging
Thepresentinventionrelatestoamethodthatallowsformultiplexantibody-stainingofbiologicalsamplesforimagingincludingbuffersforblocking,imagingandelution.
Background
Variousmethodshaverevolutionizedourabilitytoobtainmultiplexedmeasurementsoftheabundanceofhundredsorthousandsofdifferentmolecularspeciesfromsinglecells.Thesehavebroughtthepromisethatthroughlarge-scaleefforts,allfunctionallyrelevantcelltypesofahumanbodywill,inanunbiasedmanner,emergefromsuchdata.Sincesomeofthesemethodscanbeappliedinsitu,theidentifiedcelltypescanthenbeplacedwithinthecontextofacellpopulationortissue.However,itiswellknownthattheabundanceofaproteinorproteinstate,orofanRNAtranscript,isnotdirectlyinformativeaboutitsinvolvementincellular
function.Thisdependsonthespecificintracellularlocationandinteractionwithothermoleculesandintracellularstructures,whichmayonlyinvolveasmallfractionofthetotalcellularpool.Moreover,thephenotypeofanindividualcellisdeterminedbythefunctionalstate,abundance,morphology,andturnoverofitsintracellularorganellesandcytoskeletal
structures.Therefore,toobtainfunctionallyrelevantinformation,theseunbiasedlarge-scalemethodsneedtoextendthelengthscaleofmolecularmultiplexingintotheintracellulardomain,andultimatelyacquiretemporalinformation.Recently,atour-de-forcestudyachievedhigh-
resolutionintracellularimmunofluorescenceimagingof12,000proteins,fromwhichan
averagesubcellularmapofthehumanproteomewascreated.However,tounderstandhowthesubcellulardistributionoftheproteomeisfunctionallylinkedtothephenotypicstateofacellanditsmicroenvironmentandhowitrespondstovaryingconditions,suchmapsmustbe
directlymeasuredinthesamesinglecellandacrossmanycellsinsitu.Whilevariouspowerfulmethodsexistthatcanachievespatiallyresolvedantibodymultiplexingontissuesorsinglecells,nonemeetallrequirementstosimultaneouslycoverthetissue,singlecell,andhighly
resolvedintracellularlengthscalewhilstpreservingsamplequalityinahigh-throughputmannerformultipleconditionsandbecombinedwithlarge-scaleimageprocessingandmultivariatestatisticalapproachestoextracttherichamountofbiologicalinformationpresent
insuchdata.
Themainissuewithrecordingsuchmultiplexeddataistoallowformultipleantibodystainingroundswithoutcrosslinkingtheantibodytothesample.
Theobjectiveofthisinventionistoprovidemeansandmethodsthatallowformultipleantibodystainingroundswithoutcrosslinkingtheantibodytothesample.
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