RNA-sequencing of mouse thymic leukemias extracted from Mb1-CreDPB mice

We examined the patterns of gene expression of mouse thymic leukemias extracted from Mb1-CreDPB mice by RNA sequencing (RNA-seq). Our goal was to integrate RNA-seq data with whole-exome sequencing (WES) to determined secondary driver mutations of leukemogenesis in the absence of Spi-B and PU.1, Thymic leukemias were isolated from diseased Mb1-CreDPB mice. In summary, thymuses were homogenized and red blood cells were removed with ACK buffer, washed with PBS and counted. The amount of 8 million cells were pelleted an RNA was extracted using Rneasy RNA Isolation Kit (Qiagen). RNA was quantified and the purity was checked by spectophotrometer. RNA was sent to subsequently sequencing procedures.