We developed a FISH-based method to directly assess chromosome-wide transcriptional activity, thereby enabling the visualization of the actively transcribed fraction of a chromosome at the single-cell level. We applied this method to probe the activity of X-chromosomes and its instability in the context of human embryonic stem cells and cancer cells.
Vallot, C. and Rougeulle, C. (2016). Single-cell Visualization of Chromosome Transcriptional Territories by RNA-paint. Bio-protocol 6(17): e1914. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.1914.