The invention belongs to the technical field of
biology, and discloses a single-
cell communication tracing
system based on a
cell penetrating
nucleic acid tag and application thereof. The tracing
system comprises a carrier containing an inducible
promoter, wherein the carrier expresses CellTag-
RNA (Ribonucleic Acid), fat-soluble secretory
fluorescent protein and
fluorescent protein fusion protein which cannot be secreted. After the
system is expressed in cells, fat-soluble secretory
fluorescent protein and CellTag-
RNA form a compound and are transferred into adjacent receiving cells, CellTag bar codes of the receiving cells and sending cells can be detected at the same time by performing single-
cell sequencing on the whole tissue, and whether the receiving cells are amplified or not can be judged according to
fluorescence expression and CellTag occurrence frequency. By analyzing the sharing mode of the bar code, the development pedigree, the spatial proximity relation and the
interaction network of the cells can be synchronously reconstructed with the single cell resolution, so that the dynamic structure and the
functional module of the tissue are disclosed on the spatial-temporal scale.