For doxycycline-inducible lentiviral expression of a constitutively nuclear human FOXO1 (FOXO1A3), FLAG-tagged FOXO1A3 was cloned into pLVX-TetOne-Puro (Clontech). For CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing, gene-specific gRNA sequences (Supplementary Table 4) were cloned into a plentiCRISPRv2 plasmid co-expressing FLAG-tagged Cas9 nuclease and a puromycin-selection marker (Addgene, 52961). The FUCCI lentiviral reporters mCherry-hCdt1(30/120)-pCSII-EF and mVenus-hGeminin(1/110)-pCSII-EF56 (link) were obtained from the Laboratory for Cell Function Dynamics, CBS, RIKEN, Japan.
Lentivirus production was performed by co-transfection of HEK293FT cells with pMD2.G (Addgene, 12259), psPAX2 (Addgene, 12260) and transfer plasmids, accordingly. Transfections were carried out using Lipofectamine 2000 transfection reagent (Life Technologies) as previously described57 (link). Viruses were collected 48 and 72 h after transfection, filtered through a 0.45-μm filter and incubated with HUVECs for 16 h in the presence of 8 µg ml−1 polybrene (Santa Cruz). After transduction, cells were expanded for 48 h and selected with EBM containing 1 µg ml−1 puromycin (InvivoGen, ant-pr-1).
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