RNA seq of vhlfl/fl cd4 cre, hif1afl/fl vhlfl/fl cd4 cre and WT CD4 T cells before and after anti-CD3/CD28 stimulation

Purpose: We compared the transcriptomes of murine CD4 T cells lacking either the vhl gene ( vhlfl/fl cd4 cre (vhl cKO) ) or both vhl and hif1a (hif1afl/fl vhlfl/fl cd4 cre (dcKO)) with WT controls before and 24 h after T cell receptor stimulation using anti-CD3/CD28. Results: Using an optimized data analysis workflow, about 45-60 million sequence reads per sample to the mouse genome (build mm10) and identified ca 12500 transcripts in the CD4 T cells of WT and mutant mice after performing HISAT2 alignements to the mm10 reference. Conclusion: the segregation of the transcriptome of unstimulated WT CD4 T cells as compared to the other groups. Within the TCR-stimulated groups the gene expression of vhl cKO CD4 T cells differed to that of WT and vhl hif1a dcKO CD4 T cells which showed in comparison important similarity between them Overall design: Biological Replicates: 4 WT, 4 dcKO and 3 vhl cKO anti-CD3/CD28 stimulated and 3 unstimulated WT CD4 T cells.