BioLegend BEN-seq libraries sequencing runs now available on Illumina® BaseSpace™ Sequence Hub

Author:

Sophie Wehrkamp-Richter

Today, we’re sharing the sixth in a series of posts that shed more light on new run data publicly available on BaseSpace™ Sequence Hub (BSSH).

Recent developments in multiomics sequencing technologies have combined the single-cell analysis of RNA and protein in a technique called cellular indexing of transcriptomes and epitopes by sequencing (CITE-Seq). This method uses antibodies conjugated to oligonucleotides, available as TotalSeq antibodies from BioLegend. These oligo-conjugated antibodies have since been incorporated into a bulk RNA-Seq workflow for simultaneously obtaining RNA and protein data in the absence of a single-cell instrument using Illumina next-generation sequencing (NGS), described as bulk epitope and nucleic acid sequencing (BEN-Seq), rendering a complete proteogenomic profile of the sample.

Figure 1 – Experimental workflow

Human PBMCs were isolated from healthy donors. To incorporate protein analysis into bulk RNA-Seq, PBMCs for BEN-Seq were stained with 154 TotalSeq-A antibodies comprising the TotalSeq-A Human Universal Cocktail (https://www.biolegend.com/en-us/products/totalseq-a-human-universal-cocktail-v1-0-20321), and using the BioLegend BEN-Seq protocol. RNA and antibody-derived tag (ADT) fractions of PBMCs were isolated and separated using streptavidin-conjugated magnetic beads loaded with complementary oligonucleotides following the BioLegend BEN-Seq protocol. The remaining RNA fraction was processed using the Illumina TruSeq™ Stranded mRNA Library Prep Kit with Illumina TruSeq RNA UD Indexes.

Table 1: Input requirements for bulk-cell proteogenomics samples and recommended number of sequencing reads

Bulk-ADT samples were sequenced at BioLegend on Illumina MiniSeq™ high output flowcell with a 30 + 8 + 30 run (https://support.illumina.com/content/dam/illumina/gcs/assembled-assets/marketing-literature/biolegend-ben-seq-app-note-m-gl-00024/biolegend-ben-seq-app-note-m-gl-00024.pdf) and analyzed with a command-line script using Kallisto and DESeq2.

Run 1: https://basespace.illumina.com/s/cTXOGRbgdY6q

Run 2: https://basespace.illumina.com/s/MLknbkxSqI9E

Figure 3: The BEN-seq libraries have very short inserts, especially in the reverse reads, resulting in an A-overcall and expected Q30 drop after 55 cycles of sequencing.

No PhiX was spiked in in these runs, but it is possible to spike in 1% PhiX as a quality control of the sequencing runs with BioLegend BEN-seq libraries.

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Contact BioLegend for any questions regarding the antibodies, the library prep assay and the downstream analysis. Contact Illumina Tech support for sequencing related questions.

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Special thanks to our colleagues at BioLegend for generating and sequencing BEN-seq libraries on their MiniSeq instrument.

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