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U2OS cells are a human osteosarcoma cell line derived from the bone tissue of a 15-year-old female patient. These cells have a fibroblast-like morphology and are commonly used in research applications.

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Generation and Characterization of HSV-2 Vaccine Candidates

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Stocks of RVx201, RVx202, wild type (WT) HSV-2 strain MS, and Vero cell lysates were provided by Rational Vaccines Inc. (Cambridge, MA). The WT HSV-2 strain MS was isolated in 1961 from the midbrain of a 50-year-old Icelandic female with a protracted history of multiple sclerosis [39 (link)]. RVx201 and RVx202 were generated as previously described, by targeted mutations throughout the coding region of infected cell protein 0 (ICP0) using HSV-2 MS as a backbone [40 (link)]. WT HSV-2 stocks were generated using Vero cells from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) while RVx201 and RVx202 stocks were generated using U2OS cells (ATCC). Cells were maintained in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) containing 5% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 100 U/mL penicillin G and streptomycin. Standard plaque assays were used to verify viral titers using Vero cells for WT HSV-2 and ICP0-complementing cells for RVx201 and RVx202 (Neal Deluca, University of Pittsburgh [41 (link)]). All cell lines cells were maintained following standard cell culture techniques for use in plaque assays.
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Culturing Human Adult Fibroblasts

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293FT cells (Invitrogen, R70007) were maintained in DMEM high-glucose media (Gibco) supplemented with 10% FBS (Ausbian). U-2 OS cells (ATCC, HTB-96) were maintained in McCoy’s 5 A (Modified) Medium (Gibco) supplemented with 10% FBS (Ausbian). Human adult fibroblasts were derived from skin biospies of two 35-year-old healthy male individuals with approval for collection and use of human samples by institutional ethical committees of Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University (2020035, 2021007-1). Human skin biopsy tissues were cut into about 1 mm × 1 mm × 1 mm pieces, and placed on 60 mm dishes (Corning) precoated with 15 µg/cm2 collagen type I from rat tail (Sigma-Aldrich) in 6 ml DMEM high-glucose media (Gibco) supplemented with 10% FBS (Ausbian) and 5 ng/ml bFGF (PeproTech), and put in the 37 °C incubator. After 3 weeks’ incubation, fibroblasts that migrated out of the tissues were passaged to new collagen-I-coated dishes.
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Knock-Down of HERC2 in U2OS Cells

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Human fibroblasts and ethical statements were previously described [5 (link)]. U2OS cells were obtained from ATCC. Cells were cultured at 37°C in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 units/ml penicillin, 100 μg/ml streptomycin and 2 mM glutamine. Transfection of cells with siRNAs (Non Targeting, NT: UAGCGACUAAACACAUCAA; HERC2, H2: GACUGUAGCCAGAUUGAAA) purchased from GenePharma was carried out using calcium phosphate. Transfected cells were analyzed 72 hours post-transfection. MG132 (Z-Leu-Leu-Leu-al) (Sigma-Aldrich) was added to the cells for 6 hours to a final concentration of 10 μM.
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Senescence Induction in Immortalized Fibroblasts

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WI38-hTERT/ER-RAF1 immortalized fibroblastic cell line was kindly provided by C. Mann (48 (link)). They were grown in minimal essential medium supplemented with l-glutamine, nonessential amino acids, sodium pyruvate, penicillin-streptomycin, and 10% fetal bovine serum under 5% CO2 and 5% O2. Senescence was induced by treating cells with 20 nM 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen for 3 days. U2OS cells (ATCC) were grown in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium containing Glutamax supplemented with sodium pyruvate, penicillin-streptomycin, and 10% fetal bovine serum under 5% CO2. WI38 cells and derivatives were transfected using the siRNA transfection reagent Dharmafect 4 (Dharmacon) following the manufacturer’s instructions, with 100 nM siRNA (unless indicated in a figure legend), and harvested 72 h later. U2OS cells were transfected with the INTERFERin transfection reagent (Polyplus) or with Dharmafect 4 according to the manufacturers’ instructions with 50 nM siRNA and harvested 48 h later. For RNA stability analysis, actinomycin D (Sigma) was added at 10 μg/mL. The siRNAs used are listed in Table 2.
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Cell Lines and Drug Treatments

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U2OS cells (ATCC, Manassas, Virginia, USA) were grown in high glucose Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s media (DMEM) with pyruvate (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Darmstadt, Germany). RPE-1 hTERT cells (ATCC) were cultured in DMEM:F12 media (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Culture media were supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Thermo Fisher Scientific) and penicillin/streptomycin (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Cell lines were tested twice a year for Mycoplasma contamination using the LookOut Detection Kit (Sigma), and all tests were negative.
Cells were treated with DMSO (0.2%; Carl Roth, Karlsruhe, Germany), Nutlin-3a (10 µM; Sigma Aldrich, Darmstadt, Germany), Actinomycin D (5 nM; Cayman Chemicals, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), 5-FU (25 μg/ml, Cayman Chemicals), or Doxorubicin (0.2 µg/ml; Cayman Chemicals) for 24 h.
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Cell Culture and Genetic Manipulation Protocol

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Unless otherwise noted, all chemicals were obtained from Sigma and all enzymes were obtained from New England Biolabs (Ipswich, MA). KAPA Hifi 2x Polymerase (Kapa Biosystems; Wilmington, USA; cat. no. KK2601) was used for all cloning and library production steps. E. coli were cultured at 37°C in Luria broth. All cell culture reagents were purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, MA) unless otherwise noted. HEK 293T cells (ATCC; Manassas, VA; CRL‐3216) and U‐2 OS cells (ATCC HTB‐96), and derivatives thereof were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 U/ml penicillin, 0.1 mg/ml streptomycin, and 1 μg/ml doxycycline (Sigma; St. Louis, MO), unless otherwise noted. hTERT RPE‐1 cells (ATCC CRL‐4000) and derivatives thereof were cultured in F12/DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS, 1 mM PenStrep, and 0.01 mg/ml hygromycin B. For Visual Cell Sorting experiments, DMEM without phenol red was used to reduce background fluorescence. Cells were passaged by detachment with Trypsin–EDTA 0.25%. All cell lines tested negative for mycoplasma in monthly tests. All synthetic oligonucleotides were obtained from IDT, and their sequences can be found in Table EV3. All non‐library‐related plasmid modifications were performed with Gibson assembly. See the Appendix and Table EV3 for construction of the vectors used.
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Fluorescent Protein Labelling in Cell Lines

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COS7 and U2OS cells (ATCC) were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium (DMEM, phenol red-free; Life Technologies) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (Life Technologies), 1 mM GlutaMAX (Life Technologies) and maintained at 37 °C in a humidified 5% (v/v) CO2 environment. The COS7 cells have integrated a histone H2B–HaloTag expressing plasmid via the piggyback transposase (i.e., ‘H2B–Halo’ cells), and the U2OS cells have integrated a Sec61β–HaloTag expressing plasmid via the piggyback transposase. Both cells were kept under the selection of 500 μg/mL Geneticin (Life Technologies). Cell lines undergoes regular mycoplasma testing by the Janelia Cell Culture Facility. Cells were imaged on confocal microscopes in the Janelia Imaging Facility (Zeiss LSM 710, W Plan APO 20×/1.8 D -or- Zeiss LSM 880, C-APO 40×/1.2 W Corr FCS M27) using the indicated filter sets.
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Circadian Rhythm Reporting in U2OS Cells

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U2OS cells (ATCC) stably transduced with the Per2-luciferase reporter [102 (link)] were grown in regular Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (Corning; MT10013CV) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and penicillin-streptomycin. All cells were grown at 37°C in a 5% CO2 humidified atmosphere and regularly checked to be mycoplasma-free. The sex of U2OS cells is female. The cell line is regularly authenticated by measuring luminescence levels using the Lumicycle luminometer (Actimetrics). The clonal lines are morphologically indistinguishable and represent the average period length from parental cell line as described [102 (link)]. Drosophila Schneider 2 cells (S2-R+) (Drosophila Genomics Resource Center), which are derived from Oregon R late embryonic stage male tissue, were cultured in Schneider’s medium (Thermo Fisher Scientific) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 1X Penicillin-Streptomycin-Glutamine at 25°C
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Cell Lines for Cancer Research

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Glioblastoma cell lines (LN229, U118, T98G and A172) were derived from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC; Manassas, VA). U251 was obtained from Sigma Aldrich (St. Louis, MO). Renal cell carcinoma cell lines (ACHN and 786-O) were obtained from ATCC, UM-RC-2 were purchased from Sigma, while RCC4 was a gift from Eric Jonasch in MD Anderson. Meningioma cell lines (IOMM-Lee, JEN and CH-157) were generated in-house (University of Utah) [18 ]. Mouse melanoma cell line (B16) and breast cancer cell line (4T1) were purchased from ATCC. U2OS Cells were obtained from ATCC.
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Characterization of U-2 OS and HEK293T Cells

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U-2 OS cells (human bone osteosarcoma cells), RRID:CVCL_0042, were obtained from ATCC and propagated in the William Hahn lab; they were not additionally authenticated prior to this experiment. The cell line tested negative for mycoplasma prior to this experiment. HEK293T cells, RRID:CVCL_0063, were obtained from ATCC. The cell line was validated by STR profiling (Genetica DNA Laboratories) and was negative for mycoplasma as measured by MycoAlert Mycoplasma Detection Kit (Lonza, Walkersville, MD).
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