Gene expression profiling of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)

Methods Mol Biol. 2014:1185:91-119. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1133-2_7.

Abstract

Transcriptomic analysis to decipher the molecular phenotype of hematopoietic stem cells, regulatory mechanisms directing their life cycle, and the molecular signals mediating proliferation, mobilization, migration, and differentiation is believed to unravel disease-specific disturbances in hematological diseases and assist in the development of novel cell-based clinical therapies in this era of genomic medicine. The recent advent in genomic tools and technologies is now enabling the study of such comprehensive transcriptional characterization of cell types in a robust and successful manner. This chapter describes detailed protocols for isolating RNA from purified population of hematopoietic cells and gene expression profiling of those purified cells using both microarrays (Affymetrix) and RNA-Seq technology (Illumina Platform).

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

  • Cell Death
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Gene Expression Profiling / methods*
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells / cytology
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
  • RNA / genetics
  • RNA / isolation & purification
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA

Substances

  • RNA