pCMV-PE2 (Addgene #132775, a gift from David Liu1 (link)) was digested with EcoRI-HF (NEB). After digestion, the plasmid was dephosphorylated by rSAP (NEB), followed by gel extraction. tagRFP was PCR amplified from pLV312.3 (Addgene #119944)19 (link). tagRFP was Gibson assembled into pCMV-PE2 using 50 ng backbone and 2:1 ratio of tagRFP amplicon. Assembly was performed with NEBuilder HiFi DNA Assembly Master Mix (NEB). Assembled plasmids were transformed into NEB Stable Competent E. coli, resulting in pCMV-PE2-tagRFP. P2A-BleoR (Zeocin resistance) was PCR amplified from an in-house plasmid that originated from pcDNA™3.1/Zeo (Invitrogen). pCMV-PE2-tagRFP was PCR amplified to get linearized plasmid, with amplicon end downstream of tagRFP. Gibson assembly was performed as described previously, resulting in pCMV-PE2-tagRFP-BleoR (Addgene #192508). Lenti-p3-eGFP plasmid was produced by replacing EF1a-PuroR (MluI-HF and ApaI) on Lenti-gRNA-puro (Addgene #84752, a gift from Hyongbum Kim20 (link)) with p3-eGFP sequence.