The cumate-inducible wildtype or mutant AR-V7 expression constructs were individually packaged into lentiviral particles in 293T cells, and the lentivirus particles were used to transduce LNCaP cells as described previously [50 (link)]. At 48 hr after transduction, 1 μg/ml puromycin was added to the medium to start selection, and the selection continued for two weeks to obtain polyclonal colonies of resistant cells. AR-V7 was expressed by exposing the cells to 1x cumate (System Biosciences).