Illumina Microarray of MRC5 cell with or without KDM7A-DT overexpression

KDM7A Divergent Transcript (KDM7A-DT) is a stress-induced lncRNAs. In our previous studies, KDM7A-DT showed the most robust cellular phenotype alteration and a significant TP53-dependency upon oxidative and oncogenic stress induction. To investigate the functional roles of KDM7A-DT, we first performed overexpression experiments using fibroblasts. We found that MRC5 cells overexpressing KDM7A-DT escaped cell cycle proliferation and long-term survival ability and were associated with a distinct stress-related morphology (enlarged and flattened cells) compared to cells expressing just the vehicle control. To examine the effects of KDM7A-DT overexpression on the transcriptome, we performed a differential expression gene (DEG) analysis comparing a group of four independent biological replicates of MRC5 overexpressing KDM7A-DT to a group of samples from control cells.