Transcriptome analysis of cardiac specific depletion of RBPMS and RBPMS2 embryonic hearts [sch4_rnaseq]

To investigate the function of RNA-binding protein with multiple splicing (RBPMS) family, RBPMS and RBPMS2, in heart, we establish two RBPMS/2 double knock out mutant strains using cardiomyocyte specific Cre delete strains. Xenopus laevis light chain 2 (XMLC2) promoter CRE mice (Breckenridge et al., 2007) were crossed to RBPMSflox/flox / RBPMS2flox/flox animals to generate the RBPMS/2flox/flox / XMLC2-Cre mice line. In a parallel approach, we crossbred RBPMSflox/flox / RBPMS2flox/flox mice with animals carrying alpha myosin-heavy chain (Myh6) Cre (aMyHC-Cre) (Agah et al., 1997), resulting in the RBPMS/2flox/flox / aMyHC-Cre line. RNA seq of E11.5 (XML-Cre) and E16.5 (aMyHC-Cre) embryonic hearts was performed. Overall design: Comparative gene expression profiling analysis of RNA-seq data for littermate control and cardiomyocyte specific double knock out of RBPMS/2 hearts at embryonic stage.