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Full transcriptome analysis of single cells with the SMART-Seq Stranded Kit

NOTE: For RNA sequencing resulting in stranded libraries from single cells, we recommend the reconfigured version of the kit below, SMART-Seq Total RNA Single Cell (ZapR Mammalian) (Cat. # 634360, 634361 & 634362).

The SMART-Seq Stranded Kit (Cat. # 634442, 634443 & 634444) will be phased out within a year. Contact your local sales representative for more information.

Get more out of your single-cell and ultra-low input RNA-seq with the SMART-Seq Stranded Kit. This kit uses a random-priming approach to capture the whole transcriptome, enabling analysis of nonpolyadenylated transcripts at the single-cell level. The kit contains reagents for generating stranded sequencing libraries, including cDNA synthesis and amplification, ZapR-mediated ribosomal RNA depletion, and Illumina-compatible library preparation.

If you prefer an oligo(dT) priming approach, we recommend SMART-Seq mRNA LP (with UMIs), SMART-Seq mRNA LP, or SMART-Seq mRNA HT LP.

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634442

SMART-Seq® Stranded Kit

12 Rxns

USD $1150.00

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395	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of: US10150985, CA2939621, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480077658.0, US10988796, DE602014058059.9, EP3105325, FR3105325, UK3105325, JP6416939 and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Additional information may be found at https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
425	LIMITED USE LABEL LICENSE: RESEARCH USE ONLY Notice to Purchaser: This product is the subject to a license granted to Takara Bio USA, Inc. and its Affiliates from Caribou Biosciences, Inc., and this product is transferred to the end-user purchaser (“Purchaser”) subject to a “Limited Use Label License” conveying to the Purchaser a limited, nontransferable right to use the product, solely as provided to Purchaser, together with (i) progeny or derivatives of the product generated by the Purchaser (including but not limited to cells), and (ii) biological material extracted or derived from the product or its corresponding progeny or derivatives (including but not limited to cells) (collectively, the product, and (i) and (ii) are referred to as “Material”) only to perform internal research for the sole benefit of the Purchaser. The Purchaser cannot sell or otherwise transfer Material to a third party or otherwise use the Material for any Excluded Use. “Excluded Use” means any and all: (a) commercial activity including, but not limited to, any use in manufacturing (including but not limited to cell line development for purposes of bioproduction), product testing, or quality control; (b) preclinical or clinical testing or other activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or any other regulatory agency in any country or jurisdiction where the active agent in such studies comprises the Material; (c) use to provide a service, information, or data to a third party with the sole exception of using the Material to conduct in vitro sample preparation, i.e., selectively depleting target cDNAs from a sample either by cleaving or selectively separating such target cDNAs from the sample through the use of the Materials; (d) use for human or animal therapeutic, diagnostic, or prophylactic purposes or as a product for therapeutics, diagnostics, or prophylaxis; (e) activity in an agricultural field trial or any activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or any other agriculture regulatory agency; (f) high throughput screening drug discovery purposes (i.e., the screening of more than 10,000 experiments per day) as well as scale-up production activities for commercialization; (g) modification of human germline, including editing of human embryo genomes (with the sole exception of editing human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines for research purposes) or reproductive cells; (h) self-editing; and/or (i) stimulation of biased inheritance of a particular gene or trait or set of genes or traits (“gene drive”). It is the Purchaser’s responsibility to use the Material in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. For information on obtaining additional rights, including commercial rights, please contact licensing@cariboubio.com or Caribou Biosciences, Inc., 2929 7th Street, Suite 105, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA, Attn: Licensing
392	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of:US10941397, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480057094.4, US10781443, US10954510, DE602014069266.4, EP3058104, FR3058104, UK3058104, JP6602294, SE3058104, CA2923812, and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Information on relevant patents and licenses for this product may be found at: https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
450	This Product is sold under license from JumpCode Genomics, Inc., and is covered by one or more of the following US patents and foreign counterparts as well as pending US and foreign patent applications: 10,604,802; 11,708,606; 11,761,039; PCT/US2015/014242; CA2938669; EP 20192599.7; HK402021031164.3.

The SMART-Seq Stranded Kit is used to generate strand-specific RNA-seq libraries for Illumina® sequencing from 1–1,000 sorted cells or 10 pg–10 ng of purified total RNA. This kit incorporates Takara Bio's SMART (Switching Mechanism at the 5' end of RNA Template) technology and includes refinements to the SMARTer method for stranded RNA-seq that simplify the library preparation workflow and improve sequencing performance. In addition, contrary to the SMART-Seq v4 Ultra Low Input RNA Kit for Sequencing and SMART-Seq HT Kit, reverse transcription is initiated using random priming instead of oligo(dT) priming, thus capturing the full transcriptome instead of only the polyadenylated fraction. The SMART-Seq Stranded Kit was specifically designed to deliver highly sensitive and reproducible data from single cells while keeping the workflow short and user friendly. The kit does not require additional rRNA removal methods or kits and produces sequencing libraries that retain strand-of-origin information. The integrated removal of cDNAs derived from rRNA-typically present in high abundance following cDNA synthesis from total RNA inputs-makes the workflow extremely sensitive, yielding data that is highly reproducible with low mapping to rRNA.

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634443

SMART-Seq® Stranded Kit

48 Rxns

USD $3799.00

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395	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of: US10150985, CA2939621, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480077658.0, US10988796, DE602014058059.9, EP3105325, FR3105325, UK3105325, JP6416939 and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Additional information may be found at https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
425	LIMITED USE LABEL LICENSE: RESEARCH USE ONLY Notice to Purchaser: This product is the subject to a license granted to Takara Bio USA, Inc. and its Affiliates from Caribou Biosciences, Inc., and this product is transferred to the end-user purchaser (“Purchaser”) subject to a “Limited Use Label License” conveying to the Purchaser a limited, nontransferable right to use the product, solely as provided to Purchaser, together with (i) progeny or derivatives of the product generated by the Purchaser (including but not limited to cells), and (ii) biological material extracted or derived from the product or its corresponding progeny or derivatives (including but not limited to cells) (collectively, the product, and (i) and (ii) are referred to as “Material”) only to perform internal research for the sole benefit of the Purchaser. The Purchaser cannot sell or otherwise transfer Material to a third party or otherwise use the Material for any Excluded Use. “Excluded Use” means any and all: (a) commercial activity including, but not limited to, any use in manufacturing (including but not limited to cell line development for purposes of bioproduction), product testing, or quality control; (b) preclinical or clinical testing or other activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or any other regulatory agency in any country or jurisdiction where the active agent in such studies comprises the Material; (c) use to provide a service, information, or data to a third party with the sole exception of using the Material to conduct in vitro sample preparation, i.e., selectively depleting target cDNAs from a sample either by cleaving or selectively separating such target cDNAs from the sample through the use of the Materials; (d) use for human or animal therapeutic, diagnostic, or prophylactic purposes or as a product for therapeutics, diagnostics, or prophylaxis; (e) activity in an agricultural field trial or any activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or any other agriculture regulatory agency; (f) high throughput screening drug discovery purposes (i.e., the screening of more than 10,000 experiments per day) as well as scale-up production activities for commercialization; (g) modification of human germline, including editing of human embryo genomes (with the sole exception of editing human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines for research purposes) or reproductive cells; (h) self-editing; and/or (i) stimulation of biased inheritance of a particular gene or trait or set of genes or traits (“gene drive”). It is the Purchaser’s responsibility to use the Material in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. For information on obtaining additional rights, including commercial rights, please contact licensing@cariboubio.com or Caribou Biosciences, Inc., 2929 7th Street, Suite 105, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA, Attn: Licensing
392	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of:US10941397, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480057094.4, US10781443, US10954510, DE602014069266.4, EP3058104, FR3058104, UK3058104, JP6602294, SE3058104, CA2923812, and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Information on relevant patents and licenses for this product may be found at: https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
450	This Product is sold under license from JumpCode Genomics, Inc., and is covered by one or more of the following US patents and foreign counterparts as well as pending US and foreign patent applications: 10,604,802; 11,708,606; 11,761,039; PCT/US2015/014242; CA2938669; EP 20192599.7; HK402021031164.3.

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634444

SMART-Seq® Stranded Kit

96 Rxns

USD $5029.00

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392	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of:US10941397, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480057094.4, US10781443, US10954510, DE602014069266.4, EP3058104, FR3058104, UK3058104, JP6602294, SE3058104, CA2923812, and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Information on relevant patents and licenses for this product may be found at: https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
395	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of: US10150985, CA2939621, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480077658.0, US10988796, DE602014058059.9, EP3105325, FR3105325, UK3105325, JP6416939 and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Additional information may be found at https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
425	LIMITED USE LABEL LICENSE: RESEARCH USE ONLY Notice to Purchaser: This product is the subject to a license granted to Takara Bio USA, Inc. and its Affiliates from Caribou Biosciences, Inc., and this product is transferred to the end-user purchaser (“Purchaser”) subject to a “Limited Use Label License” conveying to the Purchaser a limited, nontransferable right to use the product, solely as provided to Purchaser, together with (i) progeny or derivatives of the product generated by the Purchaser (including but not limited to cells), and (ii) biological material extracted or derived from the product or its corresponding progeny or derivatives (including but not limited to cells) (collectively, the product, and (i) and (ii) are referred to as “Material”) only to perform internal research for the sole benefit of the Purchaser. The Purchaser cannot sell or otherwise transfer Material to a third party or otherwise use the Material for any Excluded Use. “Excluded Use” means any and all: (a) commercial activity including, but not limited to, any use in manufacturing (including but not limited to cell line development for purposes of bioproduction), product testing, or quality control; (b) preclinical or clinical testing or other activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or any other regulatory agency in any country or jurisdiction where the active agent in such studies comprises the Material; (c) use to provide a service, information, or data to a third party with the sole exception of using the Material to conduct in vitro sample preparation, i.e., selectively depleting target cDNAs from a sample either by cleaving or selectively separating such target cDNAs from the sample through the use of the Materials; (d) use for human or animal therapeutic, diagnostic, or prophylactic purposes or as a product for therapeutics, diagnostics, or prophylaxis; (e) activity in an agricultural field trial or any activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or any other agriculture regulatory agency; (f) high throughput screening drug discovery purposes (i.e., the screening of more than 10,000 experiments per day) as well as scale-up production activities for commercialization; (g) modification of human germline, including editing of human embryo genomes (with the sole exception of editing human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines for research purposes) or reproductive cells; (h) self-editing; and/or (i) stimulation of biased inheritance of a particular gene or trait or set of genes or traits (“gene drive”). It is the Purchaser’s responsibility to use the Material in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. For information on obtaining additional rights, including commercial rights, please contact licensing@cariboubio.com or Caribou Biosciences, Inc., 2929 7th Street, Suite 105, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA, Attn: Licensing
450	This Product is sold under license from JumpCode Genomics, Inc., and is covered by one or more of the following US patents and foreign counterparts as well as pending US and foreign patent applications: 10,604,802; 11,708,606; 11,761,039; PCT/US2015/014242; CA2938669; EP 20192599.7; HK402021031164.3.

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Simple workflow to generate stranded Illumina sequencing-ready libraries in 7 hours
Appropriate for analysis of 1–1,000 intact mammalian cells or 10 pg–10 ng of low- or high-quality mammalian total RNA
Reproducible, accurate detection of full-length coding and noncoding transcripts from single cells or total RNA
Comparable sensitivity to our gold-standard SMART-Seq v4 Ultra Low Input RNA Kit for Sequencing.

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SMART-Seq Stranded Kit workflow

Schematic of workflow for the SMART-seq Stranded Kit

SMART-Seq Stranded Kit performs well across a wide range of inputs

Sequencing alignment metrics for A375 total RNA and cells
Input	Total RNA	1,000 cells	500 cells	100 cells	10 cells	5 cells	1 cell
Number of reads (pairs)	6,000,000	6,000,000	6,000,000	6,000,000	6,000,000	6,000,000	5,873,974
Number of transcripts >1 FPKM	13,260	13,294	13,583	13,520	12,726	12,602	11,540
Number of transcripts >0.1 FPKM	21,334	21,113	21,365	21,145	20,550	18,888	15,815
Proportion of reads (%):
Exonic	34.7	36.4	39.2	42.7	36.7	36.2	37.3
Intronic	29.6	29.3	27.7	28.3	34.0	30.4	21.1
Intergenic	14.2	13.4	12.2	12.9	16.7	16.8	10.1
rRNA	7.0	11.4	11.5	6.3	3.6	4.9	7.1
Mitochondrial	4.1	3.5	3.7	4.9	3.8	4.4	4.6
Overall mapping (%)	89.6	93.9	94.3	95.1	94.9	92.7	80.2
Duplicate rate (%)	37.3	45.2	40.3	46.1	52.5	72.2	78.5
lncRNA mapping:
Number of mapped reads (%)	7.2	10.4	10.8	9.4	8.7	8.6	7.3
lncRNA transcripts detected	5,395	4,687	4,565	5,439	5,440	4,983	2,802

Figure 2: High reproducibility across cell input amounts. A375 cells isolated by FACS were used to generate RNA-seq libraries with the SMART-Seq Stranded Kit. Input varied from 1 cell to 1,000 cells, with two replicates per input of 5–1,000 cells and 12 replicates for the single cells. For comparison, two aliquots of 1,000 cells were used for total RNA purification and then used for library preparation.

SMART-Seq Stranded Kit matches the sensitivity of SMART-Seq v4 technology

Similar sensitivity and reproducibility between SMART-Seq v4 and SMART-Seq Stranded kits

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Generation of Illumina sequencing-ready libraries in 7 hours from small quantities of mammalian cells (1–1,000 cells) or total RNA (10 pg–10 ng)
Whole transcriptome sequencing with strand-of-origin information

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Full transcriptome analysis of single cells with the SMART-Seq Stranded Kit

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634442: SMART-Seq Stranded Kit

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634443: SMART-Seq Stranded Kit

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634444: SMART-Seq Stranded Kit

Overview

SMART-Seq Stranded Kit workflow

SMART-Seq Stranded Kit performs well across a wide range of inputs

SMART-Seq Stranded Kit matches the sensitivity of SMART-Seq v4 technology

More Information

Applications

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