Time-course analysis of transcriptomic changes of mesothelial cells after stress exposure

To determine the transcriptional program that imparts adhesion capacity to healthy mesothelial cells, we analyzed subtle gene expression changes by performing highly parallel single-cell RNA-seq genome-wide expression profiling of individual mesothelial cells exposed to stress (Extended Figure 6A) using the Drop-seq workflow (Pubmed ID 26000488). We individually sequenced >16,000 cells from Met-5A mesothelial cells at various time-points after exposure to a 15 min desiccation shock, as well as under control unstressed conditions. Overall design: Single-cell transcriptomics time-course experiment after desiccation shock