title: GSM6965701: 𝚫ppdA/B  24-h mycelium 1; Aspergillus fumigatus; RNA-Seq
library_construction_protocol: Total RNA was isolated from three biological replicates of CEA17ΔakuBKU80, ΔppdA/B, ΔdclA/B, and ΔrrpA/B knockout strains from conidia, 24-h-, and 48-h-old mycelium. For A. fumigatus conidia, the spores were first homogenized in a bead beater (0.5 mm beads; FastPrep-24, MP Biomedicals) in Trizol. Fungal mycelium was collected from liquid culture using Miracloth (Millipore) and disrupted in liquid nitrogen using a precooled mortar and pestle. Roughly 0.5 g of homogenized mycelium was transferred into a 2-ml Eppendorf tube. 800 µl TRIzol was added to the ground mycelia and vortexed vigorously. Tubes were frozen briefly for 5 sec in liquid nitrogen and allowed to thaw on ice. To all samples, chloroform was added to the fungal samples in TRIzol, vortexed, and centrifugated for 5 min at 4°C at full speed. The aqueous upper phase was transferred to a fresh 2-ml tube without disturbing the interphase. RNA extraction from aqueous phase was done with 1 volume of phenol/chloroform/isoamyl alcohol (25:24:1, v/v). Brief vortexing preceded centrifugation for 5 min at 4°C. RNA was precipitated using 400 µl isopropanol for 20 min, followed by pelleting by centrifugation for 20 min at 4°C. The pellet was washed with 700 µl 70% ethanol and air dried at 37°C for 5 min prior to resuspension in RNase free water. The RNA isolation was followed by a DNase treatment using 2 units of TURBO DNase (Thermo Fisher) per 10 µg RNA for 30 min at 37°C in 100 µl total volume. Total RNA was then collected using the RNA Clean and Concentrator-25 kit (Zymo Research) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Poly-(A) selection and directional sequencing of mRNA was performed by Novogene using paired-end 150-bp read sequencing on a NovaSeq 6000.