Human lung epithelial cell line A549 (ATCC), its hnRNP E1 knockdown (A549/E1KD or E1KD), normal mouse mammary epithelial (NMuMG) cell line, and its hnRNP E1 knockdown (NMuMG/E1KD or E1KD) derivative cells (Hussey et al, 2011 (link), 2012 (link)) were cultured in DMEM supplemented with 5% FBS and 5% FCS at 37°C in a 5% CO2 humidified chamber. Antibodies used in the work were against the following proteins: hnRNP E1 (mouse; Abnova; mouse, MBL; and rabbit, raised against purified hnRNP E1), TRF2 (rabbit, NB10056506; Novus), Hsp90 (mouse; SCBT), FLAG (rabbit; Sigma-Aldrich), 6XHis (rabbit; Cell signaling), phospho-ATM (MAB 2401; Abnova), ATM (2873S; Cell signaling), phospho-ATR, ATR (13934S; Cell signaling), phospho-p53 (9284S; Cell signaling), p53 (2524; Cell signaling), γ-H2A.X (rabbit, 9718S; Cell signaling), Histone H2A.X (7631T; Cell signaling), PCNA (mouse, Cat no. 2586S; SCBT), Usp1 (rabbit, 8033S; Cell signaling), Usp7 (mouse, HAUSP; SCBT), RPA32 (rat, 2208S; Cell signaling), Rad6 (R6A/R6B, rabbit, 4944S; Cell signaling), Rad18 (rabbit, 9040S; Cell signaling), and Fen1 (rabbit; SCBT). Plasmids containing hnRNP E1 and its three KH domains namely KH1, KH2, and KH3 have been described previously (Chaudhury et al, 2010b (link); Brown et al, 2016 (link)); each of the four ORFs contained an N-terminal GST tag.
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