Efficacy of small molecule inhibitors and genetic interference of cGAS-STING axis on development of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in human stromal cells

Rapid advancements in next generation sequencing (NGS) have revolutionized system-based analysis of genome-wide expression, cellular pathways and stress responses. We performed this cGAS-STING-associated study to streamline the transcriptomic profiling (RNA-seq) of human stromal cells manifesting a typical senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in a DNA damage setting. Overall design: Overall transcript profiles of primary normal human prostate stromal cells (PSC27) were generated by deep sequencing, in triplicate, using Illumina NovaSeq 6000. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were analyzed at the transcript isoform level with two methods: Burrows–Wheeler Aligner (BWA) followed by ANOVA (ANOVA) and TopHat followed by Cufflinks. qRT–PCR validation was performed using TaqMan and SYBR Green assays