Pulmonary arterial explants of lung samples were collected from the COPD group and the non-COPD group (three samples from each group). Total RNA was isolated using
TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, USA) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. RNA concentration determination, RNA quality control and microarray hybridization were performed according to the manufacturer’s instructions of the
Arraystar Super RNA Labeling kit (Arraystar, Rockville, USA). Linear RNAs were eliminated using
RNase R (Epicenter, New York, USA). The enriched circRNAs were subsequently amplified and transcribed into fluorescent complementary RNAs (cRNAs) with a random priming method of the
Arraystar Super RNA Labelling Kit. Labelled cRNAs were then purified using the
RNeasy Mini kit (Qiagen GmbH, Hilden, Germany). Labelled cRNA quality and quantity were determined with the
NanoDrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, USA). Subsequently, the labelled cRNA was fragmented and hybridized onto the
Arraystar human circRNA microarray (circular RNA array V2.0 RNA; Arraystar). The hybridized arrays were scanned using an
Axon GenePix 4000B microarray scanner (Axon Instruments, Foster City, USA).
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