HEK293T cells were first transfected with control or YBX1 siRNA (Dharmacon,
siGENOME SMARTpool siRNA) using
Lipofectamine RNAiMAX (Thermo Fisher Scientific). 24 hr later, eYFP and mCherry reporter, rtTA expression vector, and pri-miRNA expression plasmids were subsequently cotransfected using
TransIT-LT1 (Mirus). 4 hr after the second transfection, HEK293T cells were treated with 1 μg/ml
doxycycline (Sigma). 48 hr after the second transfection, flow cytometry analysis was carried out with
BD FACS Celesta (BD Biosciences). Data collection was performed using FACS Diva Version 8.0.1. FlowJo version 10.4.1. and R was used for data analysis. After selection of single cell populations by sequential gating by SSC and FSC (
Extended Data Fig. 10d), we analyzed about 20,000 eYFP-positive cells (P3 population in
Extended Data Fig. 10d). Each experiment included non-transfection controls. The eYFP and mCherry signals of each cell were background normalized by subtracting the mean value plus two standard deviation of signal in non-transfected samples, and binned by eYFP signal levels, as previously described
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