Project description:Purpose: The goal of this study is to conduct and compare NGS-derived transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of progenitor lines derived from 3 HNF1A-WT and 3 HNF1A-CRISPR (with p291fsinsC mutation) human induced pluripotent stem cell lines. Methods: mRNA profiles of WT/CRISPR pancreatic progenitor cells obtained after in-vitro differentiation for 14 days were generated by deep sequencing using Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer. The raw RNA-sequencing read files were processed using the research computing facility at King’s College London, Rosalind (https://rosalind.kcl.ac.uk). RNA-sequencing reads were trimmed from adapters using Trimmomatic/0.39 (Bolger et al., 2014) and quality control was done using FASTQC/0.11.8 (Andrews, 2010). Reads were mapped to a concatenated genome sequence of human GRCh38/hg38 using STAR/2.4.2 (Dobin and Gingeras, 2015). Transcript abundance was measured using featureCount in Subread package (Liao et al., 2013). Results: The DESeq2 package (Love et al., 2014) was used to identify differentially expressed genes. We found 919 significantly regulated genes (271 upregulated, 648 downregulated), with 16 HNF1B targets and 19 HNF1A specific targets within the significantly dysregulated genes when comparing HNF1A-CRISPR versus HNF1A-WT groups. Conclusions: HNF1A and HNF1B gene targets are disturbed by the p291fsinsC mutation engineered in the CRISPR-Cas9 lines.
