Rescued competitive proliferation assay was conducted by infecting OCIAML2-Cas9 and MOLM13-Cas9 cells overexpressing ectopic RBM5-wild-type cDNA (WT), RBM5-sgRNA1-resistant mutant cDNA (PAM-MUT), and HOXA9 cDNA (linked to Venus reporter) with lentiviral-sgRNAs against non-target (sgNT) and RBM5 (RBM5-sg1) at about 50% efficiency (all monitored by Venus reporter). Data shown are means SEM from three independent experiments. ** P < 0.01, unpaired Student’s t -test