Mass Cytometry for Multivariate Organoid Signalling Analysis

Abstract

Organoids are powerful biomimetic tissue models. Despite their increasing popularity, no existing methods are suitable for cell-type specific analysis of post-translational modification (PTM) signalling networks in organoids. Here we report a multivariate mass cytometry (MC) protocol for single-cell analysis of cell-type specific PTM signalling in organoid monocultures and organoids co-cultured with stromal and immune cells. Thiol-reactive Organoid Barcoding in situ (TOBis) was developed to facilitate high-throughput comparison of signalling networks between organoid cultures. Taken together, our protocol enables high-throughput multivariate PTM signalling analysis of healthy and cancerous organoids at the single-cell level.