T47D-Y (PR-null) and MCF7 (PR-low) (19 (link)) cells were stably transfected with pSG5 or pSG5-PR-B and pSV-Neo or pIRES or pIRES-PR-B using FuGENE reagent (ThermoFisher) to generate multiple vector matched clones. Cells were cultured as previously described (12 (link), 19 (link)). Additional MCF7 cells were obtained from ATCC (PR-A/B+), cultured as indicated, and stably infected with retrovirus expressing LXSN, LXSN-wtPELP1, or LXSN-ΔNLS PELP1 (34 (link)). MCF7C4-12 (PR-null), MCF7L (PR-A/B+), BT474 (PR-A/B+), and MCF7 1GX (PR-A/B+) cells were cultured as described (12 (link), 26 (link), 36 (link), 50 (link)), MCF7L PR knockdown cells were generated using lentivirus shRNAs targeting PR (5 sequences) or GFP in pLKO (ThermoFisher).
Cells were treated with estradiol (1nM), tamoxifen (100nM), and ICI 182,780 (1uM) obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO); LY-294002 (10uM), U0126 (10uM), and PP2 (10uM) obtained from Calbiochem (Darmstadt, Germany); R5020 (10nM) purchased from NEN Life Science Products (Boston, MA); and IGF1 (5nM) from GroPep Bioreagents (Thebarton SA, Aus).