pBABE-U3-hTR was kindly provided by Kathleen Collins60 (link). U3-hTR was cloned into third generation lentiviral vector kindly provided by Raul Alvarez Rodriguez (Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA). pBABE-TERT and TERT-DN61 (link) were subcloned into pLV-FU-TetO vector. Lentiviral vectors were co-transfected with packaging plasmids (pMDL, Rev and VSVg, kindly provided by Oded Singer, Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA) in 293T cells using Lipofectamine (Invitrogen) in accordance with manufacturer’s recommendations.
Lentiviral supernatants were collected 36 hours after transfection, concentrated by ultracentrifugation at 19400 rpm for 2 hours and resuspended in hES cell media.
The shRNA-expressing lentiviral pLKO.1 vectors were purchased from OpenBiosystems (ThermoFisher) and correspond to the following clones: