RNA-seq of VCAM1-positive cardiac fibroblasts (VCF) and VCAM1-negative cardiac fibroblasts (VNCF).

This experiment aims at comparing the transcriptomic profiles of two subpopulations of fetal human cardiac fibroblasts (HCF) defined by their relative expression of VCAM1. VCAM1-positive and VCAM1-negative populations were isolated from commercial fetal HCF by MACS against VCAM1. The RNA-seq procedure was outsourced to GENEWIZ (South Plainfield, NJ, USA), and subsequent analysis was performed in-house. Briefly, total mRNA was captured using the NEBNext Poly(A) mRNA Magnetic Isolation Module, and the library was constructed with the NEBNext Ultra RNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina. Sequencing was realized on an Illumina HiSeq 2500 System.