Ku70 and
PARP1 were PCR amplified from
pEGFP-C1-FLAG-Ku70 (Addgene) and pCMV-3xFLAG-PARP1 (Addgene), respectively, then cloned into a
Bpu102I/
MunI digested pmiRFP670 (Addgene) backbone with
Gibson assembly master mix (NEB). The pDDX3X
L19A/L21A-GFP and pmiRFP670-PARP1-E988 K constructs were generated via the
QuickChange II XL Kit (Agilent) as described by the manufacturer’s protocol using
HPLC-purified oligos (Integrated DNA Technologies). Deletion constructs were generated from pDDX3X
L19A/L21A-GFP via Gibson assembly following the manufacturer’s protocol (NEB) and expression was confirmed by western blot. Guide RNA expression vectors were constructed by annealing
synthetic oligonucleotides (Integrated DNA Technologies) encoding the target sequences and inserting into the pMLM3636 vector following the depositor’s protocol (Addgene). All constructs were extracted from transformed bacteria via
miniprep plasmid extraction (Qiagen) and verified by Sanger sequencing.
sgPARP1–1: CGAGTCGAGTACGCCAAG
sgPARP1–3: ACCCTGACGTTGAGGTGGAT DDX3X-L19A-L21A_F1:
GCAGTTTGCTGGCGCAGACGCGAACTCTTCAGATAATCA DDX3X-L19A-L21A_R1:
CTGATTATCTGAAGAGTTCGCGTCTGCGCCAGCAAACTG PARP1-E988K-Fwd:
ATGACACCTCTCTACTATATAACAAGTACATTGTCTATGATATTGC PARP1-E988K-Rev:
GCAATATCATAGACAATGTACTTGTTATATAGTAGAGAGGTGTCAT
Cargill M.J., Morales A., Ravishankar S, & Warren E.H. (2021). RNA helicase, DDX3X, is actively recruited to sites of DNA damage in live cells. DNA repair, 103, 103137.