The human complementary DNA (cDNA) fragment encoding the full-length Zeb1 sequence51 (link) was prepared by PCR and cloned into pLV-EF1-MCS-IRES-Bsd (Biosettia). The lentiviral-based vector pLV-H1-EF1α-puro (Biosettia) was used to express shRNAs in breast cancer cells and HUVECs. The human ZEB1 promoter (−1915/+132) sequences were obtained by PCR from human genomic DNA and cloned into the pGL3-basic vector (Promega). Mutagenesis of NRE-I and NRE-II in the human Zeb1 promoter was performed using a QuikChange® Lightning Site-Directed Mutagenesis kit (Stratagene). Primer sequences are listed in Supplementary Table 3.
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