Around 109 cells were harvested for each sample and washed once with pre-chilled diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC)-treated water. Cell pellets were snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −80°C prior to RNA extraction. Total RNA was obtained using the Trizol reagent (Invitrogen). RNA was then reverse transcribed using the PrimeScript RT kit (Takara, RR014A). The cDNA library was used as a template in real-time PCR using the Takara SYBR Premix Ex-Taq (Tli RNase H Plus) kit (Takara, RR420A). The primers for CLN2 and ACT1 were the same as in our previous study (Zhang Z. et al., 2017 (link)).
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