Impact of azide metabolic glycoengineering and bioorthogonal cell-to-cell tethering in adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal cells

We report RNA sequencing data from adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (hASCs) functionalized via metabolic glycoengineering with pendant azide sialosides. Beyond the impact of this cell surface engineering on transcriptome, we explore the expression profiles of azide-hASCs covalently tethered to an interfacial glycosaminoglycan via bioorthogonal click chemistry and yielding a 3D multicellular construct. We find global gene expression changes in response to metabolic glycoengineering in 2D cell culture conditions as well as those arising from cell-to-cell tethering into 3D environments.