Expression study of the Hodgkin’s lymphoma cell line L-1236 upon CRISPR Cas9-mediated knockout of lymphotoxin alpha (LTA) compared to control

Persistent activation of canonical and non-canonical NF-κB pathways is a hallmark of the malignant Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). We identified lymphotoxin alpha (LTA), which is secreted by the cHL cell line L-1236 in high concentrations. This cytokine contributes to the constitutive activation of the canonical and non-canonical NF-κB pathways. L-1236 cells were purchased from the DSMZ (Braunschweig, Germany) and cultured in RPMI (Gibco) with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (FCS; Gibco). Cells were transducted with the lentiCRIPSPR v2 vector containing gRNAs which target the second (g2) and the fourth exon (g3) of LTA. Following single cell clonal selection, L-1236 control cells (v2) and two LTA knockout (KO) clones g2_1 and g3_4 were cultured in normal culture medium for 72 h. The RNA was extracted using the RNeasy kit (Qiagen) according to manufacturer’s instructions. Preparation of cDNA, fragmentation and labeling was performed with the GeneChIPTM WT PLUS reagent kit (ThermoFisher Scientific). Samples were hybridized to the human Clariom™ S Assay (ThermoFisher Scientific).