Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology 1 article published in JoVE Cancer Research Establishing Cell Lines Overexpressing DR3 to Assess the Apoptotic Response to Anti-mitotic Therapeutics Xin Wang *1, Jiamin Zhou*2, Chen Qi*1, Gelin Wang1,3 1School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, 2Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, 3Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology Establishing a stable cell line overexpressing a gene of interest to study gene function can be done by stable transfection-picking single clones after transfecting them via retroviral infection. Here we show that HT29-DR3 cell lines generated in this way elucidate the mechanisms by which death receptor 3 (DR3) contributes to antimitotics-induced apoptosis.