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. Overall design: Comparing gene expression in human peripheral blood CD14+ monocytes transfected with a miR-155 or negative control mimic