Laser Capture Microdissection-based RNAseq for Profiling Mouse and Human Sebaceous Gland Transcriptomes

We describe the use of laser capture microdissection (LCM) to isolate human and murine sebaceous glands (SGs) for transcriptomic analysis and publish this SG transcriptomic data for reference. We show that compared to whole skin RNA sequencing, LCM RNA sequencing allows for high resolution in identifying and describing SG genes at homeostasis. Lastly, we compare this LCM of sebaceous glands to published SG clusters from single cell RNA sequencing of skin, and show that we achieve greater resolution and depth with the LCM approach. Overall design: Gene expression profiling analysis of laser capture microdissection derived bulk RNA-seq data from mouse and human sebaceous glands.