The lentiviruses for
PHF2 and
CDKN2B-AS1 overexpression and the corresponding control viruses were purchased from VectorBuilder (China). C666-1 and HK1 EBV+ cell lines were infected with recombinant lentivirus plus 5 mg/mL
polybrene (VectorBuilder, China) according to the manufacturer’s instructions and were selected using 5 μg/mL
puromycin (MP Biomedicals, LLC, USA).
For
PHF2 knockdown,
siRNA duplexes targeting
PHF2 and the negative control siRNA (
si-NC) were designed and synthesized by RiboBio (Guangzhou, China). For
CDKN2B-AS1 knockdown, the
lncRNA smart silencer (a mixture of three siRNAs and three ASOs targeting
CDKN2B-AS1) and smart silencer of the negative control (ss-NC) was used (RiboBio, Guangzhou, China).
Lipofectamine 3000 (Invitrogen, USA) was used for cell transfection according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The sequences of siRNA and
lncRNA smart silencer are shown in
Table S5. To validate the effects of overexpression and knockdown of target genes in C666-1 and HK1 EBV+ cell lines, the changes of protein abundance of PHF2 were verified by western blot. For the non-coding RNA
CDKN2B-AS1, the expression changes were measured by qPCR.
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