A RUNX2-mediated Epigenetic Regulation of the Survival of p53 Defective Cancer Cells

The goal is to identify transcripts that are regulated by RUNX2 in SAOS2 cells. Overall design: SAOS2 cells were transduced with lentiviruses expressing shLuc, shRUNX2_3 and shRUNX2_4 for 4 days followed by 2ug/ul puromycin selection to remove untransduced cells. A no-virus control was included to monitor the transduction efficiency. These control cells died after 2 days of puromycin selection. The lentivirally transduced cells were more than 80% survived, which indicates a high transduction efficiency. After four more days in puromycin, SAOS2 cells were harvested and subjected to total RNA extraction. 1ug total RNA were used to perform RNA-seq.