A functional shRNA screen for regulators of doxorubicin induced apoptosis.

<p>(A) Outline of the doxorubicin induced apoptosis bypass screen using U2OS cells. Pools of shRNA were transfected into retroviral packaging cell lines, and retrovirus transduced into U2OS cells followed by puromycin selection. Transduced U2OS cells were treated with 225 ng/ml Doxorubicin for 5 days, which led to apoptotic death of approximately 99.8% of the library infected cells. We harvested cells that survived treatment, isolated genomic DNA, PCR amplified the region containing shRNA sequences, shotgun cloned and sequenced. A total of approximately 1500 inserts were sequenced. (B) Twelve genes identified by this screen are listed. Full gene names and the number of times identified are also listed.