COS-7 Cell Culture and Transfection

Cell culture was performed as reported previously^{23 (link)} and reiterated here. COS-7 cells were obtained from ATCC (Manassas, VA, USA, catalog number CRL-1651) and maintained in standard DMEM-HG medium supplemented with 10% (vol/vol) heat-inactivated FBS, 1 mM sodium pyruvate and 2 mM Glutamax in a 5% CO₂ incubator at 37 ^°C. For imaging, the cells were plated in Bioptechs Delta-T dishes (Bioptechs, Butler, PA, USA, product number 04200417B) and grown to ~ 70% confluency. Transient transfections were done with various plasmids according to manufacturer’s instructions using 1–2 μg DNA and 3ul of X-tremeGene HP DNA transfection reagent (Roche, Manheim, Germany, product number 06366236001). The transfected cells were incubated at 37 °C and 5% CO₂ incubator for 24–48 h before imaging. The cell culture reagents DMEM-HG medium (catalog number 11960), fetal bovine serum (FBS, catalog number 10082), sodium pyruvate (catalog number 11360) and Glutamax (catalog number 35050) were obtained from Invitrogen (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY, USA). Calyculin A was obtained from Sigma (catalog number C 5552).