title: RNAi Screening of Leukemia Cells Using Electroporation.
abstract: RNAi-mediated screening has been an integral tool for biological discovery for the past 15 years. A variety of approaches have been employed for implementation of this technique, including pooled, depletion/enrichment screening with lentiviral shRNAs, and segregated screening of panels of individual siRNAs. The latter approach of siRNA panel screening requires efficient methods for transfection of siRNAs into the target cells. In the case of suspension leukemia cell lines and primary cells, many of the conventional transfection techniques using liposomal or calcium phosphate-mediated transfection provide very low efficiency. In this case, electroporation is the only transfection technique offering high efficiency transfection of siRNAs into the target leukemia cells. Here, we describe methods for optimization and implementation of siRNA electroporation into leukemia cell lines and primary patient specimens, and we further offer suggested electroporation settings for some commonly used leukemia cell lines.
authors: Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA. agarwala@ohsu.edu.|Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA. agarwala@ohsu.edu.
authors: Anupriya
authors: A
authors: Agarwal
authors: Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA. tynerj@ohsu.edu.|Department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA. tynerj@ohsu.edu.
authors: Jeffrey W
authors: JW
authors: Tyner
mesh_terms: D018274:Electroporation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D034622:RNA Interference
keywords: Electroporation; Leukemia; siRNA screening