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The RNAi consortium (TRC) is a collaborative effort based at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and includes six MIT and Harvard associated research institutions and five international life sciences organizations. Thermo Scientific has partnered with the TRC to make the Thermo Scientific shRNA libraries, which are available to researchers worldwide, and to compile shRNA libraries for popular gene families and pathways.
The pLKO.1 reagents can be packaged into virus particles for use in transduction experiments. Specifically, the replication-incompetent viral particles can be efficiently produced using lentiviral packaging plasmids co-transfected in 293T packaging cells. The Thermo Scientific Trans-Lentiviral packaging system, which offers maximum biosafety and high titers, is recommended.
Gene Ontology (GO) annotated collections targeting all genes in a particular gene family or biological pathway have been created from the human TRC lentiviral shRNA library. These arrayed sets contain all shRNA from the human TRC lentiviral shRNA library that target genes falling under specific GO terms. These collections will greatly simplify pathway analysis, target identification, and validation.
Gene Family
# Genes
# Constructs
Angiogenesis
117
606
Apoptosis
763
4037
Cell Cycle
768
4229
GPCRs
549
2732
Kinases
781
4518
Phosphatases
164
817
Transcription Factors
852
4330
Ubiquitins
145
737
Ubiquitin-Ligases
350
1769
GO annotations are applied to genes by curators within the Gene Ontology Consortium and do not originate from Thermo Fisher Scientific. Consult the Gene Ontology website for details.
In scientific publications, the libraries should be referred to as TRC-Hs1.0 (Human) and TRC-Mm1.0 (Mouse). Individual clones are uniquely identified by their TRC ID number (eg. TRCN0000014783).
The TRC lentiviral shRNA libraries are provided in 96-well microtiter plates containing frozen stock cultures of E. coli in 2XLB broth with 8% glycerol and carbenicillin (100 µg/mL). Thermo Fisher Scientific checks all cultures for growth prior to shipment. Individual shRNA constructs are shipped as glycerol stock cultures on wet ice.
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