Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Analysis of Gene Expression Changes upon Topobexin Treatment and TOP2B-knockout in hiPSC derived cardiomyocytes
doi: 10.64898/2026.03.09.710520
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) The differentiation protocol resulted in the conversion of monolayers of wild type (WT) or TOP2B null (line 18D, BKO) hiPSC cells into layers of beating cardiomyocytes in 8-12 days. However, on average this took 1 day longer for BKO than WT hiPSC cells. Each spot represents a separate hiPSC to CM differentiation experiment, four biological replicates for WT and five biological replicates for the BKO. Line = mean. Statistical significance was determined using a two-tailed unpaired t-test, * - P < 0.05. (B) Primary component analysis of RNA-seq analysis comparing WT and TOP2B null (BKO) hiPSC and derived CM (quadruplicate biological replicas). (C) Volcano plots to visualise gene expression changes upon differentiation of WT and BKO hiPSC cells to CM. Red lines represent cutoffs of > 2-fold change in transcript abundance with a P adj of <0.05. Numbers in the corners of the plots highlight the number of up or down regulated protein-coding genes in the CM compared to the hiPSC cells, using the above cutoffs.
Article Snippet: The next day, they were incubated with primary anti-TOP2B antibody (MAB6348, 1:500, R&D Systems) and anti-β-actin antibody (NB600-501, 1:5000, Novusbio) for 1 h at room temperature, then washed with 0.1% TBS-T (2× 1 min, 1× 10 min, repeated twice).
Techniques: Two Tailed Test, RNA Sequencing, Derivative Assay, Gene Expression