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ArticleNature communications2025

Subcellular level spatial transcriptomics with PHOTON.

Shreya Rajachandran, Qianlan Xu, Qiqi Cao, Xin Zhang, Fei Chen, Sarah M Mangiameli, Haiqi Chen

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Spatially tunable multiomic sequencing using light-driven combinatorial barcoding of molecules in tissues.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. ECHOS enables spatial epigenome profiling at subcellular resolution.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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7 authors.

Shreya Rajachandran *Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Qianlan Xu *Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Qiqi CaoCecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Xin ZhangCecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Fei ChenGene Regulation Observatory, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2308-3649
Sarah M MangiameliGene Regulation Observatory, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Haiqi ChenCecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. haiqi.chen@utsouthwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7179-3229

Funding

UT Southwestern NORCP30DK127984 · NIDDK · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Jeff G McDonald · 2022 to 2026
$7.4M
Spatially Resolved Molecular Measurement of Biomolecular CondensatesR01HG013358 · NHGRI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Haiqi Chen · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG013358NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK127984U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) R01HG013358
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The subcellular localization of RNA is closely linked to its function. Many RNA species are partitioned into organelles and other subcellular compartments for storage, processing, translation, or degradation. Thus, capturing the subcellular spatial distribution of RNA would directly contribute to the understanding of RNA functions and regulation. Here, we present PHOTON, a method which combines high resolution imaging with high throughput sequencing to achieve spatial transcriptome profiling at subcellular resolution. We demonstrate PHOTON as a versatile tool to accurately capture the transcriptome of target cell types in situ at the tissue level such as granulosa cells in the ovary, as well as RNA content within subcellular compartments such as the nucleoli, the mitochondria, and the stress granules. Using PHOTON, we also reveal the functional role of m

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Gene Expression ProfilingPhotonsTranscriptomeAnimalsCell NucleolusFemaleGranulosa CellsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMiceMitochondriaOvaryRNA, MessengerRNA, Messenger

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PMCPMC12078482

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