“…Transfection efficiencies ranged typically between 5 and 20%, while triplevector co-transfection efficiencies were determined using visibly-expressed fluorescent protein at 6863.84% (n55 wells). The following transfection vectors were used: pCMV6-Entry-Myc-FLAG-FHF1b (PCR-amplified and subcloned into pCMV6-Entry from a human cDNA clone; NM_004113.3, Origene), pcDNA4/HisMaxA-NEMO (Fenner et al, 2009), p65-EGFP-N1 (a generous gift of E. Floettmann and M. Rowe, Cardiff, UK), EGFP-N1 (Clontech, Heidelberg, Germany) served to determine positively-transfected cells or as control, EB1-GFP (Piehl and Cassimeris, 2003), wild-type and K44M-IKKb [kinase-dead, Addgene plasmids 11103 and 11104 (Mercurio et al, 1997)], wildtype and NEMO-L329P [Addgene plasmids 11970 and 11971 (Wu et al, 2006)] were used. Two-hybrid complementation plasmids were generated by ligation into the according vectors as directed by the manufacturer's protocol (CheckMateH, Promega, Southampton, UK).…”