Human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK293) (JCRB9068, JCRB Cell Bank) and TIG-1 (spontaneously developed diploid fibroblast cell lines of fetal lung [JCRB0501, JCRB Cell Bank]) cells were cultured in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (
DMEM, Nacalai Tesque) with 10% supplemented with
fetal bovine serum (Gibco). Human primary lung (PCS-201-013, ATCC), adult dermal (PCS-201-012, ATCC) and neonatal dermal cells (PCS-201-010, ATCC) were cultured in the recommended media. Cells were maintained at 37°C in a humidified chamber supplemented with 5% CO
2. For tRNAseq and northern blot, 3.0–6.0 × 10
6 cells were seeded on 100 mm dishes using a culture medium. For i-tRAP and RT-qPCR, 4.0–8.0 × 10
5 cells were seeded on six well plates.
For amino acid starvation, cells were cultured in amino acid–free
DMEM (Wako) supplemented with 0.5% dialyzed
fetal bovine serum (Gibco) for indicated time. Amino acid supplementation was conducted using MEM essential amino acids solution, MEM nonessential amino acids solution, and 200 mM glutamine solution (Wako) for the indicated time.
Small RNA was extracted from cells using
Isogen II reagent (Nippongene) and
Ethachinmate (Nippongene) according to manufacturer's instruction.
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