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ArticleNature methods2025

Repurposing large-format microarrays for scalable spatial transcriptomics.

Denis Cipurko, Tatsuki Ueda, Linghan Mei, Nicolas Chevrier

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Article in Nature methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Denis CipurkoPritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Tatsuki UedaPritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Linghan MeiPritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0299-6839
Nicolas ChevrierPritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. nchevrier@uchicago.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-4506

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAININGT32GM007281 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CLARK, MARCUS RAMSAY · 1985 to 2022
$32.1M
ULTRASTRUCTURE AND CYTOMORPHOLOGY COREP30DK042086 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI LIU, CAMBRIAN YANGSHAO · 1990 to 2025
$29.8M
Pilot and Feasibility ProgramP30DK020595 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI GRAEME I BELL · 2013 to 2026
$20.9M
Medical Scientist National Research Service AwardT32GM150375 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Raghavendra G Mirmira · 2023 to 2026
$5.5M
Molecular Mechanisms of Adjuvant Triplet CombinationsU01AI160418 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHEVRIER, NICOLAS · 2021 to 2025
$3.1M
Building a Predictive Framework for Adjuvant Combinatorics in Vaccine DevelopmentDP2AI145100 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHEVRIER, NICOLAS · 2018 to 2018
$2.4M
Spatiomolecular Profiling of Human Cancer at ScaleR33CA297902 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Nicolas Chevrier · 2025 to 2026
$743k
NCI NIH HHS R33 CA297902NIAID NIH HHS DP2 AI145100NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI160418NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK020595NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK042086NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007281NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM150375U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) DP2-AI145100U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) U01-AI160418
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatiomolecular analyses are key to study tissue functions and malfunctions. However, we lack profiling tools for spatial transcriptomics that are easy to adopt, low cost and scalable in terms of sample size and number. Here, we describe a method, Array-seq, to repurpose classical oligonucleotide microarrays for spatial transcriptomics profiling. We generate Array-seq slides from microarrays carrying custom-design probes that contain common sequences flanking unique barcodes at known coordinates. Then we perform a simple, two-step reaction that produces mRNA capture probes across all spots on the microarray. We demonstrate that Array-seq yields spatial transcriptomes with high detection sensitivity and localization specificity using histological sections from mouse tissues as test systems. Moreover, we show that the large surface area of Array-seq slides yields spatial transcriptomes (i) at high throughput by profiling multi-organ sections, (ii) in three dimensions by processing serial sections from one sample, and (iii) across whole human organs. Thus, by combining classical DNA microarrays and next-generation sequencing, we have created a simple and flexible platform for spatiomolecular studies of small-to-large specimens at scale.

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Gene Expression ProfilingOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisTranscriptomeAnimalsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMice

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PMID39562752
PMCPMC11984966

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