RNA-sequencing analysis of effect of miR-155 overexpression in human CD14+ monocytes

We report the application of bulk RNA-Sequencing to assess the effect of miR-155 overexpression by profiling gene expression following transfection of miR-155 mimic compared against negative control mimic in human peripheral blood CD14+ monocytes. Isolated human CD14+ monocytes were transfected for 24 hours and mRNA profiles of miR-155 and negative control mimic were generated by bulk RNA-Sequencing in 5 donors. The sequence reads passed quality checks and were analysed using DeSeq2. We mapped the sequence reads to the human genome (build hg38) and identified 16,014 transcripts. Comparing gene expression in human peripheral blood CD14+ monocytes transfected with a miR-155 or negative control mimic