Cell Line Information:
Designations: RD
Organism: Homo sapiens (human)
Tissue: rhabdomyosarcoma
Age: 7 years
Gender: female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Morphology: spindle cells and large multinucleated cells
Growth properties: adherent
Virus Susceptibility: poliovirus 1; vesicular stomatitis
(Indiana); herpes simplex; vaccinia
Reverse Transcriptase: negative
Products: myoglobin; myosin ATPase
Depositors: R.M. McAllister

The Transfection Reagent:

RD Cell Avalanche™ Transfection Reagent is a new, proprietary solution specifically designed for transfection on RD Cells. The proprietary formulation of lipids and polymers ensures the highest possible transfection efficiencies and viabilities for RD Cells. No other transfection reagents can match the efficiency, convenience, and gentleness of RD Cell Avalanche™ Transfection Reagent for transfection on RD Cells. For details of the developing process of this reagent, please go to: How did EZ Biosystems develop Avalanche™ Cell type/cell line specific transfection reagent series?

Features:

• Specifically optimized to deliver nucleic acids into RD Cells
• Highest efficiency to ensure experimental success
• Extremely gentle to cells
• Deliver single or multiple plasmids
• Simplest and straightforward protocols
• Suitable for Reverse Transfection 
• Compatible with transfection in any plate formats
• Economical: High efficiency means less amount of nucleic acid & reagent is needed
• Developed and manufactured by EZ Biosystems

Data:

FIG. 1. High throughput test of transfection efficiency (determined as RLU/mg) on RD cells after transfection of luciferase reporter gene by using our 172 proprietary transfection formulas and several most popular commercial transfection reagents. The yellow box showed the results of 4 commercial transfection reagents. The red lines marked our candidate formulas with the highest transfection efficiency for RD cells. This test result was confirmed with repeat experiments. The one that showed the optimal balance of potent & low cytotoxicity among those candidate formulas after flow cytometry analysis on the percentage of 7AAD positive cells was later named as this RD Cell Avalanche Transfection Reagent.

For Other Cells:

RD Cell Avalanche™ Transfection Reagent (human rhabdomyosarcoma cell) can also be used on the following cells with high transfection efficiencies. 786-O Cell Caki-1 Cell MDCK Cell Vero Cell 293 Cell 293T/17 Cell Recommended protocols for these cells will be provided with the reagent. The protocols usually provide satisfactory transfection efficiency with invisible cytotoxicity. However, optimization may be needed for certain type of cells. Optimizations may include: the amount of DNA and this transfection reagent; cell density; transfection reagent/DNA ratio, or incubation time for the mixture of transfection reagent/DNA etc. For best transfection result, we recommend using the respective cell type/cell line specific Avalanche transfection reagents. Those reagents have been optimized on both recipes and protocols, and have been proved to have the best transfection results for the respective cell lines or primary cells. You can easily find the respective Avalanche transfection reagents specific for your cells by using the filters of our product list.

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