RNA samples of murine heart tissue were collected from C57BL/6 mice treated with or without DOX and stored with RNAStore solution at 4 °C (#DP408-02, Tiangen Biotech Co., Ltd.). RNA isolation, quality control, library construction, and sequencing were performed by the Beijing Genomics Institute (www.genomics.org.cn, BGI) using the BGISEQ-500 platform. Cleaned reads were then mapped to the GRCm38.P6 reference genome with Bowtie2 (v2.2.5)17 (link). Transcript abundances were measured with RSEM (v1.2.8)18 . Further bioinformatics analyses were all accomplished in RStudio with R (v3.5.3) and GSEA (v4.0.3) with GSKB (v1.14.0)19 –21 . Low count genes were removed by a cut-off at 0.5829 FPKM. Differential expression analyses were performed with limma (R packages v3.38.3) by a cut-off at 1.44-fold-change and P value < 0.0522 (link). KEGG pathway enrichment was performed with clusterProfiler (v3.10.1)23 (link). Plots performed with ggplot2 (v3.2.1) and ggpubr (v0.2.4)24 ,25 . Heatmap of 50 up-regulated genes and 50 down-regulated genes was plotted with pheatmap (v1.0.12)26 . All codes are available from the corresponding author upon request.
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