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Expression data from surface airway epithelial basal cells, ciliated cells, and club cells.

ABSTRACT: To identify key genes that define surface airway epithelial (SAE) basal cells, we FACS isolated basal, ciliated, and club cell populations as previously reported (Zhao et al., 2014; PMID: 25043474) and performed microarray analysis on isolated mRNA. For fractionating SAE into basal, club, and ciliated populations, cells were stained with EpCAM-PECy7 (eBiosciences), GSIβ4-FITC (Sigma), SSEA1-Alexa Fluor® 647 (BioLegend), and CD24-PE (BD Pharmingen) for 30 minutes on ice as previously described (Zhao et al., 2014), prior to FACS. Basal cells were considered EpCAM+ and GSIβ4+. Secretory cells were considered EpCAM+ and SSEA1+. Ciliated cells were considered EpCAM+, GSIβ4- and CD24+. Primary SAE cells were harvested from C57BL/6 mice and sorted into basal, ciliated, and club cell populations for the purpose of identifying enrichment of transcripts specific to each cell type population.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE111557 | GEO | 2018/04/30

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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