We thank Dr. Wenling Han at the School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University for kindly providing PANC1, AsPC1, BxPc3 and Mia PaCa 2 cells; Dr. Jingwei Xiong at the Institute of Molecular Medicine of Peking University for providing Cas9 and gRNA plasmids; Dr. Yulong Li at the College of Life Sciences of Peking University for providing the mTagBFP2, R-GECO12 and GCaMP6s plasmids; Dr. Qi Ouyang at the Center for Quantitative Biology of Peking University for the p53 plasmid; Dr. Victor W. Hsu at Harvard University for anti-β-COP antibody; Dr. Gyorgy Hajnoczky at the Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology of Thomas Jefferson University for the coding sequence of yeast U8C6; Chunyan Shah and Ming Ou at the Core Facilities of Life Sciences of Peking University for confocal microscopy imaging and image processing; and Liying Du and Hongxia Lu at the Core Facilities of Life Sciences of Peking University for flow cytometnj and statistical ana|ys~s. This work was supported by the Nationa| Natural Science Foundation of'China (NSFC) (31671392 and 31471280), the National Key Research and Development Program of China, Stem Cell and Translational Research (2016YFA0100501), and the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, US National institutes of Health.
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