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==Materials==
*Differentiated cells FBS day 3 or less.  If cells are difficult to trypsinize, they will not recover well.
**To calculate the number of cells, use 1 - 15cm dish per final dish (10cm/6well/12well).
**For example for 2 knockdowns, each being seeded in 6 - 12 well sized wells, use 1 dish, and 2 electroporations.
*Gene Pulser cuvette
*DNA:  CsCl Purified or siRNA (resuspended to 0.1 nmol/uL with 200 uL water)
*PBS +/+
*PBS -/-
*0.25% Trypsin
*L1 FBS Media


==Protocol==
#Warm media and PBS but not trypsin in water bath
#Wash cells twice with PBS (-/-), then trypsinize and with 2 mL 0.25% trypsin in the incubator
#When cells have fallen off the plate, add 9 mL Media and pipet into a 15 mL falcon tube
#Spin at 2000 RPM for 5 min.
#Wash cells with PBS +/+
#Reuspend cells to a final volume of 0.5 mL per electroporation in PBS +/+ 
#500 uL of cells is mixed with 50-200 ug of DNA (or 5 uL siRNA) in a 0.4 cm cuvette.  These volumes are for half of a final plate of cells.  Scale up or down accordingly.
#Electroporate at 160V and 950 uF
#Add 1 mL media to cuvette and transfer to a 15 mL tube with media for 10 min.  The amount of media should correspond to the final volume of plated cells (ie one electroporation of half a plate of cells would go into 6 mL final volume of media).  
#Aspirate floating debris before replating
#Bring up tube to final required volume, mix and plate