PMID- 33112185 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210323 LR - 20210323 IS - 1522-1504 (Electronic) IS - 1040-0605 (Linking) VI - 320 IP - 2 DP - 2021 Feb 1 TI - Isolation of high-yield and -quality RNA from human precision-cut lung slices for RNA-sequencing and computational integration with larger patient cohorts. PG - L232-L240 LID - 10.1152/ajplung.00401.2020 [doi] AB - Precision-cut lung slices (PCLS) have gained increasing interest as a model to study lung biology/disease and screening novel therapeutics. In particular, PCLS derived from human tissue can better recapitulate some aspects of lung biology/disease as compared with animal models. Several experimental readouts have been established for use with PCLS, but obtaining high-yield and -quality RNA for downstream analysis has remained challenging. This is particularly problematic for utilizing the power of next-generation sequencing techniques, such as RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq), for nonbiased and high-throughput analysis of PCLS human cohorts. In the current study, we present a novel approach for isolating high-quality RNA from a small amount of tissue, including diseased human tissue, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. We show that the RNA isolated using this method has sufficient quality for RT-qPCR and RNA-seq analysis. Furthermore, the RNA-seq data from human PCLS could be used in several established computational pipelines, including deconvolution of bulk RNA-seq data using publicly available single-cell RNA-seq data. Deconvolution using Bisque revealed a diversity of cell populations in human PCLS, including several immune cell populations, which correlated with cell populations known to be present and aberrant in human disease. FAU - Stegmayr, John AU - Stegmayr J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8167-9259 AD - Department of Experimental Medical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Stem Cell Center, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. FAU - Alsafadi, Hani N AU - Alsafadi HN AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1186-2517 AD - Department of Experimental Medical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Stem Cell Center, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. FAU - Langwinski, Wojciech AU - Langwinski W AD - Department of Experimental Medical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, Poznan University of Medical Science, Poznan, Poland. FAU - Niroomand, Anna AU - Niroomand A AD - Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. FAU - Lindstedt, Sandra AU - Lindstedt S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4484-6473 AD - Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. FAU - Leigh, Nicholas D AU - Leigh ND AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6978-6254 AD - Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Stem Cell Center, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. FAU - Wagner, Darcy E AU - Wagner DE AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3794-1309 AD - Department of Experimental Medical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. AD - Stem Cell Center, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20201028 PL - United States TA - Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol JT - American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology JID - 100901229 RN - 63231-63-0 (RNA) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Female MH - Humans MH - *Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis/genetics/metabolism MH - *Lung/chemistry/metabolism MH - Male MH - Mice MH - *Microdissection MH - Middle Aged MH - *RNA/chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - *RNA-Seq OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bisque OT - RNA isolation OT - RNA-sequencing OT - deconvolution OT - precision-cut lung slices EDAT- 2020/10/29 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/24 06:00 CRDT- 2020/10/28 12:10 PHST- 2020/10/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/24 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/10/28 12:10 [entrez] AID - 10.1152/ajplung.00401.2020 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2021 Feb 1;320(2):L232-L240. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00401.2020. Epub 2020 Oct 28.