Human embryonic kidney 293 cells were cultured in DMEM 10% fetal bovine serum as per the manufacturer’s instructions.
PTPN11 was sequenced in cell lines to verify wild-type sequences. Human
PTPN11WT (NM_002834.5)
, PTPN11G1282C, PTPN11G1381A, and
PTPN11C1403T cDNAs were synthesized and cloned into a
pcDNA3.1+ N-HA plasmid, fused in frame at their N-terminus with an HA tag (Genscript Biotech, Piscataway, NJ). Luciferase ORF was excised from
pLenti PGK V5-LUC Neo (21471, Addgene, Watertown, MA) by SalI and XbaI combined restriction digestion, and HA-tagged
PTPN11 cDNAs were amplified and cloned into the digested pLenti-vector using the
In-Fusion HD Cloning kit (638947, Takara Bio, Shiga, Japan), following the on-line primer design tool and the manufacturer's instructions.
Transduction of human embryonic kidney 293T cells with pLenti PGK
PTPN11WT, PTPN11G1282C, PTPN11G1381A, or
PTPN11C1403T was done in addition to
pCMV-VSVG and
delta-8.2 (Addgene) lentiviral plasmids using Lipofectamine 2000‒generated lentiviral particles used to infect human embryonic kidney 293 target cells using 8 μg/ml polybrene to enhance efficiency. Stable cell lines were selected using G418. All variants were verified in cell lines with Sanger Sequencing.
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