A stranded RNA sequencing library was prepared according to manufacturer’s instructions by using KCTM Stranded mRNA Library Prep Kit (Catalog No. DR08402, Wuhan Seqhealth Co., Ltd., Wuhan, China) (18 (link)). Briefly, the mRNA was enriched by magnetic beads and broken into short fragments by fragment buffer. A random primer was used to synthesize a single strand of cDNA using the mRNA fragment as a template. After synthesizing and purifying double stranded cDNA, the terminus of the cDNA was repaired with base and added with sequencing adaptor. The fragment was caught by magnetic beads and amplified by T100 Thermal Cycler (BIO-RAD, United States). Qubit 3.0 with Qubit RNA Broad Range Assay kit (Life Technologies, Q10210) is used to quantify the cDNA library. Finally, the different cDNA library corresponding to 200–500 bps was sequenced on Illumina Novaseq 6000 sequencer (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, United States) with a pair-end 150 bp (PE150) model at Seqhealth Technology Co., LTD (Wuhan, China). The RNA-seq data were obtained based on two independent biological replicates. Each group includes two samples and all the samples were repeated for two times.
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