Identification of stable reference genes for quantitative PCR in cells derived from chicken lymphoid organs

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• 作者：D. Borowska^a ; ^{dominika.borowska@roslin.ed.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; L. Rothwell^a ; R.A. Bailey^b ; K. Watson^b ; P. Kaiser^a
• 关键词：Reference gene ; Chicken ; Normalisation ; Lymphoid tissues ; qPCR
• 刊名：Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：170
• 期：Complete
• 页码：20-24
• 全文大小：647 K

文摘

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a powerful technique for quantification of gene expression, especially genes involved in immune responses. Although qPCR is a very efficient and sensitive tool, variations in the enzymatic efficiency, quality of RNA and the presence of inhibitors can lead to errors. Therefore, qPCR needs to be normalised to obtain reliable results and allow comparison. The most common approach is to use reference genes as internal controls in qPCR analyses. In this study, expression of seven genes, including β-actin (ACTB), β-2-microglobulin (B2M), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), β-glucuronidase (GUSB), TATA box binding protein (TBP), α-tubulin (TUBAT) and 28S ribosomal RNA (r28S), was determined in cells isolated from chicken lymphoid tissues and stimulated with three different mitogens. The stability of the genes was measured using geNorm, NormFinder and BestKeeper software. The results from both geNorm and NormFinder were that the three most stably expressed genes in this panel were TBP, GAPDH and r28S. BestKeeper did not generate clear answers because of the highly heterogeneous sample set. Based on these data we will include TBP in future qPCR normalisation. The study shows the importance of appropriate reference gene normalisation in other tissues before qPCR analysis.