Differential gene expression analysis for BAL cells isolated from LysM Cre and Netrin1loxp/loxp LysM Cre mice after intratracheal LPS challenge

Purpose: The goal of this study is to compare NGS-derived transcriptome profiling (mRNA-seq) of expressed genes between LysM Cre and Netrin1loxp/loxp LysM Cre mice 3 days after intratracheal LPS challenge in order to explain the worsened outcomes and increased levels of inflammation we measure in the Netrin1loxp/loxp LysM Cre mice Methods: Three days after mice were treated with intratracheal injections of LPS, BAL cells were collected and then depleted for neutrophils using antibody-mediated depletion. The remaining cells were used for RNA isolation. mRNA profiles were generated by deep sequencing, in quadruplicate (one sample in the Netrin1loxp/loxp LysM Cre group was excluded as the sequence depth was only half compare to other 3 replicates), using paired-end 75-cycle sequencing on an Illumina NextSeq 550 System. Bases with quality scores < 20 and adapter sequences were removed from raw data with Cutadapt (v1.15), followed by alignment of clean RNA-seq reads to GRCm38 with STAR(v2.5.3a). Gene abundance was counted by HTseq-count uniquely-mapped reads number with default parameter using GencodeM15. Genes with > 5 reads in at least one sample were included for differential expression analysis by DESeq2 software. Overall design: DEG analysis from LysM Cre and Netrin1loxp/loxp LysM Cre mice after intratracheal LPS challenge