RNA-seq data of the Amphotericin (AmB)-resistant Aspergillus strain 211 and its AmB-susceptible sectorized derivative with and without AmB treatment

Summary taken from our paper “Aspergillus terreus Sectorization: A Morphological Phenomenon Shedding Light on Amphotericin B Resistance Mechanism”: WT and ATSec strains were grown in AMM broth for 30 h at 30 °C. Afterwards, the cultures were subjected to either DMSO (control) or 1 µg/ml AmB treatment for 1 h/4 h. Triplicates of each combination of these factors were made, resulting in a total of 24 samples. RNA was extracted with a Promega GmbH kit (Madison, Wisconsin, USA) following the manufacturer's instructions. The RNA-seq experiment was conducted by BGI, generating a total of around 20 million 100bp paired-end reads with the DNBSEQ platform. BGI employed SOAPnuke (51) to remove rRNA, adaptor-containing sequences, low quality reads, and reads with high unknown nucleotide content, producing "clean reads" datasets that were used in the analysis. On average, clean read datasets contain 45.1 Mb of reads, while the raw read datasets contain 48.7 Mb. For clean reads, the mean Q20 value is 98.3%, and the mean Q30 value is 92.5%. Overall design: RNA-seq data from Aspergillus strain 211 and its sectorized derivative were analyzed in their gene expression pattern difference in the presence and absence of AmB. Each condition was analyzed in triplicates