For transient transfections the following plasmids were used: pGL3-8xARE42 (link), or pGLHIF1.343 (link), pGL4.74 renilla luciferase (#E6921, Promega), pGFP-NRF2 (pcDNA3-EGFP-C4-Nrf2, #21549, Addgene), Flag-NRF2 (pCDNA3.1 FLAG NRF2, #36971, Addgene), Flag-Keap1 (#28023, Addgene), p(HA)HIF1alpha (P402A,P564A) (#52636, Addgene). To generate plasmid GFP-NRF2-S40A, a modified QuickChange protocol was used44 (link) to perform a PCR using pGFP-NRF2 as the template and primers NRF2-S40A-for (5ʹ-GTCGAGAAGTATTTGACTTCGCCCAGCGACGGAAA-GAGTATGAGCTGGAAAA-3ʹ) and NRF2-S40A-rev (5ʹ-GGCGAAGTCAAATAC-TTCTCGACTTACTCCAAGA TCTATATCTTGCCTCCAAAGTATGTCA-3ʹ). pLKO.1-shRNA-NRF2 tet-on (tetracycline inducible) contained the sequence 5ʹ-GCTCCTACTGTGATGTGAAAT-3ʹ of NRF2 mRNA (GenBank acc. no. NM_001145412), pLKO.1-shRNA-PERK tet-on (tetracycline inducible) contained the sequence 5ʹ-GGAACGACCTGAAGCTATAAA-3ʹ of PERK mRNA (GenBank acc. no. NM_004836).
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