Simultaneous profiling of multiple chromatin proteins in the same cells

Methods derived from CUT&RUN and CUT&Tag enable genome-wide mapping of the localization of proteins on chromatin from as few as one cell. These and other mapping approaches focus on one protein at a time, preventing direct measurements of co-localization of different chromatin proteins in the same cells and requiring prioritization of targets where samples are limiting. Here we describe multi-CUT&Tag, an adaptation of CUT&Tag that overcomes these hurdles by using antibody-specific barcodes to simultaneously map multiple proteins in the same cells. Highly specific multi-CUT&Tag maps of histone marks and RNA Polymerase II uncovered sites of co-localization in the same cells, active and repressed genes, and candidate cis-regulatory elements. Single-cell multi-CUT&Tag profiling facilitated identification of distinct cell types from a mixed population and inference of cell type-specific gene expression. In sum, multi-CUT&Tag increases the “per cell” information content of epigenomic maps, facilitating direct analysis of the interplay of different proteins on chromatin. Single, double and triple Antibody multi-CUT&Tag followed by Illumina sequencing. Please note that *DualAb_* processed data was generated from both rep1 and rep2 samples, and is linked to the corresponding rep1 sample records.