Mouse MLL-AF9 leukemic cells with Dot1lfl/fl or wild-type genotypes were generated by transformation of mouse bone marrow LinSca1+cKit+ (LSK) cells with retrovirus expressing MLL-AF9 fusion protein and transplanted into sublethally irradiated recipient mice as described previously8 (link). The leukemic blasts harvested from the diseased mice were cultured in vitro in IMDM plus 15% FBS supplemented with 20 ng/ml murine SCF (PeproTech), 10 ng/ml murine IL-3 (PeproTech) and 10 ng/ml murine IL-6 (PeproTech). Human leukemic cell lines Molm-13, MV4-11 and HL-60 were maintained in RPMI plus 10% FBS. All cell culture medium contained L-Glutamine (2mM; Gibco), penicillin (100 units/ml; Gibco), streptomycin (100 ug/ml; Gibco) and plasmocin (5 ug/ml; InvivoGen). Human cell lines including HL-60, MV4-11 and Molm-13 were tested in March - May, 2013 for authentication by short tandem repeat (STR) profiling performed by ATCC. Live cell counts were obtained by high-throughput flow cytometry with SYTOX-blue cell death dye exclusion (Life Technologies) using an LSRFortessa-HTS Analyzer (BD biosciences).