Gene expression profiling of epithelial and mesenchymal subpopulations within immortalized human mammary epithelial cells. Homo sapiens

For gene expression profiling, we used immortalized human mammary epithelial cells (HMLE) to isolate a pure epithelial fraction of cells by positive selection for CD24 expression using Magnetic Activated Cell Sorting (=24hi). We independently isolated 3 mesenchymal subpopulations (msp1-3) from HMLE cells by collecting floating cells from cultured monolayer HMLE cells. Overall design: See summary