Project description:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disease characterized by airway inflammation and remodeling. The role of 15-oxo-5Z,8Z,11Z,13E-eicosatetraenoic acid (15-oxoETE), a 15-HETE metabolite catalyzed by 15-prostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-PGDH), has been relatively unexplored in asthma. In this study, we used RNA-seq to explore the effect of 15-KETE on the transcriptome of airway epithelial cells, aiming to identify its potential downstream targets and mechanisms of action.
Project description:We performed the CLIP-seq analysis of RNAs bound by 3xFLAG-tagged FTO protein stably expressed in human HEK293 cells. In parallel, we profiled the transcriptome of the same cells by RNA-seq, which was used for CLIPseq bioinformatics analysis as an input. The CRISPR-Cas9 was used to knock-out FTO expression in HEK293 to compare the mRNA expression changes and exon usage between FTO KO and WT cell lines. All experiments were performed in three replicates.
