Tissues and cells were harvested and lysed with
TRIzol (Sigma 93,289) following the manufacturer’s protocol. After purification and reverse transcription, cDNA was harvested. Specific primers were used for gene amplification. qPCR was performed using the
SYBR Green detection RT‑PCR system (Takara Bio, Inc.) with RT mix (cat. no., RR036B; Takara Bio, Inc.) and
SYBR Green (cat.no., 740,703; Takara Bio, Inc.). The thermocycling conditions were as follows: initial denaturation at 95°C for 5 s; 40 cycles at 95°C for 5 s of denaturation, 95°C for 35 s and 60°C for 30 s for annealing and elongation and 60°C for 30 s for final extension; and GAPDH was used for normalization. RNA was examined by detecting the absorption of OD260/OD230, RNA with ratio: > 2 was retained.
The following key primers were used:
hsa_circ_0001879 (F) CCCTCCAAGTCCAGTAAGAAGT
hsa_circ_0001879 (R) AGATCCTAAGAGGTGCGAGTTTA
miR-6873-5p (F): CTTCTCTGTAAGGCAAAGT
miR-6873-5p (R): CTCTACAGCTATTCCGAAC
HDAC9 (F): AGTAGAGAGGCAT
HDAC9 (R): GGAGTGTCCTTTCGG
U6 (F): CTCGCTTCGCAGCACA
U6 (R): AACGCTTCACGAATTTGCG
GAPDH (F) GGAGCGAGATCCCTCCAAAAT
GAPDH (R) GGCTGTTGTCATACTTCTCATGG
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