RNA-Seq of human K-562 leukaemia cell line with and without K700E mutation in coding region of SF3B1 gene

The aim of this experiment was to compare the transcriptomes of SF3B1 mutant and wildtype isogenic cells at the whole cell, nuclear and cytoplasmic levels. Mutations in SF3B1 are often found in the malignant cells of patients suffering from myelodysplastic syndromes and more rarely in other cancer types. The human K-562 leukaemia cell line was modified using CRISPR/Cas9 to integrate an A>G mutation in the SF3B1 consensus coding sequence to change the 700th codon from lysine to glutamic acid (K700E). RNA-Seq was ribo-depleted and randomly primed using SMARTer® Stranded Total RNA Sample Prep Kit. Sequencing used an Illumina NextSeq.