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Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX

Cat. No. 13778-075 Size: 0.75 ml

Cat. No. 13778-150 Size: 1.5 ml

Store at +4°C (do not freeze) Description

Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX is a proprietary formulation specifically developed for the transfection of siRNA and Stealth™ RNAi duplexes into eukaryotic cells. Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX provides the following advantages:

• High transfection efficiencies in many cell types to minimize background expression from untransfected cells and maximize knockdown.

• Minimal cytotoxicity to reduce non-specific effects and cellular stress.

• Generally requires low concentrations of RNAi duplexes to obtain high knockdown levels, further minimizing non-specific effects.

• A broad peak of optimal transfection activity with minimal cytotoxicity, allowing achievement of high knockdown levels despite differences in cell density, minor pipetting inaccuracies, and other variations.

Important Guidelines for Transfection

• Reverse transfection (page 2) and forward transfection (page 3) protocols can be used for most cell lines tested. Cell-type specific transfection protocols are available at http://www.77cn.com.cn/RNAi or through Technical Service.

• We recommend Opti-MEM® I Reduced Serum Medium (Cat. No. 31985-062) to dilute RNAi duplexes and Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX before complexing.• Do not add antibiotics to media during transfection as this causes cell death.• Test serum-free media for compatibility with Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX. • To assess transfection efficiency, we recommend using a KIF11 Stealth™Select RNAi, as described in Assessing Transfection Efficiency (page 2). • Use 10 nM RNAi duplex and indicated procedure as a starting point;

optimize transfections as described in Optimizing Transfections (page 3). Quality Control

Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX is tested for absence of microbial contamination with blood agar plates, Sabaraud dextrose agar plates, and fluid thioglycolate medium, for absence of RNAse activity, and functionally by transfection of Stealth™ RNAi and appropriate controls into a reporter cell line.

Part No.: 13778.PPS Rev. Date: 11 Jan 2006

For research use only. Not intended for any animal or human therapeutic or diagnostic use.

For technical support, contact tech_service@http://www.77cn.com.cn.

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Page 2 Reverse Transfection

Use this procedure to reverse transfect Stealth™ RNAi or siRNA into mammalian cells in a 24-well format (for other formats, see Scaling Up or Down Transfections, page 4). In reverse transfections, the complexes are prepared inside the wells, after which cells and medium are added. Reverse transfections are faster to perform than forward transfections, and are the method of choice for high-throughput transfection. Optimize transfections as described in Optimizing Transfections (page 3), especially if transfecting a mammalian cell line for the first time. All amounts and volumes are given on a per well basis.

1. For each well to be transfected, prepare RNAi duplex-Lipofectamine™

RNAiMAX complexes as follows.

a. Dilute 6 pmol RNAi duplex in 100 µl Opti-MEM® I Medium without serum

in the well of the tissue culture plate. Mix gently.

b. Mix Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX gently before use, then add 1 µl

Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX to each well containing the diluted RNAi

molecules. Mix gently and incubate for 10-20 minutes at room

temperature.

2. Dilute cells in complete growth medium without antibiotics so that 500 µl

contains the appropriate number of cells to give 30-50% confluence 24 hours after plating. Use 20,000-50,000 cells/well for suspension cells.

3. To each well with RNAi duplex - Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX complexes, add

500 µl of the diluted cells. This gives a final volume of 600 µl and a final RNA concentration of 10 nM. Mix gently by rocking the plate back and forth.

4. Incubate the cells 24-72 hours at 37°C in a CO2 incubator until you are ready

to assay for gene knockdown.

Assessing Transfection Efficiency

To qualitatively assess transfection efficiency, we recommend using a KIF11 Stealth™ Select RNAi (available through http://www.77cn.com.cn/rnaiexpress; for human cells, oligo HSS105842 is a good choice). Adherent cells in which

KIF11/Eg5 is knocked down exhibit a “rounded-up” phenotype after 24 hours due to a mitotic arrest (Weil, D. et al., Biotechniques (2002), 33: 1244-1248); slow growing cells may take up to 72 hours to display the rounded phenotype. Alternatively, growth inhibition can be assayed after 48-72 hours.

Note: The BLOCK-iT™ Fluorescent Oligo (Cat. No. 2013) is optimized for use with Lipofectamine™ 2000, and is not recommended for Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX.

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Page 3 Forward Transfection

Use this procedure to forward transfect Stealth™ RNAi or siRNA into mammalian cells in a 24-well format (for other formats, see Scaling Up or Down Transfections, page 4). In forward transfections, cells are plated in the wells, and the transfection mix is generally prepared and added the next day. Optimize transfections as described in Optimizing Transfections (page 3), especially if transfecting a mammalian cell line for the first time. All amounts and volumes are given on a per well basis.

Note: For some cell lines (e.g. MCF-7 or HepG2), we recommend reverse transfections.

1. One day before transfection, plate cells in 500 µl of growth medium without

antibiotics such that they will be 30-50% confluent at the time of transfection.

2. For each well to be transfected, prepare RNAi duplex-Lipofectamine™

RNAiMAX complexes as follows:

a. Dilute 6 pmol RNAi duplex in 50 µl Opti-MEM®I Reduced Serum Medium

without serum. Mix gently.

b. Mix Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX gently before use, then dilute 1 µl in 50 µl

Opti-MEM® I Reduced Serum Medium. Mix gently.

c. Combine the diluted RNAi duplex with the diluted Lipofectamine™

RNAiMAX. Mix gently and incubate for 10-20 minutes at room

temperature.

3. Add the RNAi duplex-Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX complexes to each well

containing cells. This gives a final volume of 600 µl and a final RNA

concentration of 10 nM. Mix gently by rocking the plate back and forth.

4. Incubate the cells 24-48 hours at 37°C in a CO2 incubator until you are

ready to assay for gene knockdown. Medium may be changed after 4-6

hours.

Optimizing Transfections

To obtain the highest transfection efficiency and low non-specific effects, optimize transfection conditions by varying RNAi duplex and Lipofectamine™RNAiMAX concentrations. Test 0.6-30 pmol RNAi duplex (final concentration 1-50 nM) and 0.5-1.5 µl Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX for 24-well format. For extended time course experiments (> 72 hours), consider a cell density that is 10-20% confluent 24 hours after plating.

Note: The concentration of RNAi duplex required will vary depending on the efficacy of the duplex.

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Page 4 Scaling Up or Down Transfections

To transfect cells in different tissue culture formats, vary the amounts of Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX, RNAi duplex, cells, and medium used in proportion to the relative surface area, as shown in the table.

Culture vessel Rel.

surf.

area1

Vol. of

plating

medium

Dilution

medium

reverse

transfection

Dilution

medium

forward

transfection

RNAi

(pmol)

RNAi

(nM)

Lipofect-

amine™

RNAiMAX2

96-well 0.2 100 µl 20 µl 2 x 10 µl 0.12-6 1-50 0.1-0.3 µl

48-well 0.4 200 µl 40 µl 2 x 20 µl 0.24-12 1-50 0.2-0.6 µl

24-well 1 500 µl 100 µl 2 x 50 µl 0.6-30 1-50 0.5-1.5 µl

6-well 5 2.5 ml 500 µl 2 x 250 µl 3-150 1-50 2.5-7.5 µl

60 mm 10 5 ml 1 ml 2 x 500 µl 6-300 1-50 5-15 µl

100 mm 30 10 ml 2 ml 2 x 1 ml 12-600 1-50 15-35 µl

1 Surface areas may vary depending on the manufacturer.

2If the volume of Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX is too small to dispense accurately, and you cannot pool dilutions, predilute Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX 10-fold in Opti-MEM®

I Reduced Serum Medium, and dispense a 10-fold higher amount (should be at least

1.0 µl per well). Discard any unused diluted Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX. Cotransfecting DNA and RNA using Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX For cotransfections of plasmid DNA and Stealth™ RNAi or siRNA into mammalian cells, we recommend using Lipofectamine™ 2000 (Catalog no. 11668-027), which is superior for plasmid transfections. If you want to use Lipofectamine™ RNAiMAX for your cotransfections, perform a reverse transfection as described on page 2 with the following modifications:

1a: Add 20 ng (for 24-well format) of plasmid DNA to the diluted RNAi duplex. 2: Add cells such that they will be 80-100% confluent 24 hours after plating.

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