Validation of a Rice Specific Gene, Sucrose Phosphate Synthase, Used as the Endogenous Reference Gene for Qualitative and Real-Time Quantitative PCR Detection of Transgenes
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- 作者：Jiayu Ding ; Junwei Jia ; Litao Yang ; Haibo Wen ; Chengmei Zhang ; Wenxuan Liu ; and Dabing Zhang
- 刊名：Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- 出版年：2004
- 出版时间：June 2, 2004
- 年：2004
- 卷：52
- 期：11
- 页码：3372 - 3377
- 全文大小：112K
- 年卷期：v.52,no.11(June 2, 2004)
- ISSN：1520-5118
文摘
With the development of transgenic crops, many countries have issued regulations to label thegenetically modified organisms (GMOs) and their derived products. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)methods are thought to be reliable and useful techniques for qualitative and quantitative detection ofGMOs. These methods generally need to amplify the transgene and compare the amplified resultwith that of the corresponding reference gene to obtain reliable results. In this article, we reportedthe development of specific primers and probe for the rice (Oryza sativa) sucrose phosphate synthase(SPS) gene and PCR cycling conditions suitable for the use of this sequence as an endogenousreference gene in both qualitative and quantitative PCR assays. Both methods were assayed with13 different rice varieties, and identical amplification products were obtained with all of them. Noamplification products were observed when DNA samples from other species, such as wheat, maize,barley, tobacco, soybean, rapeseed, tomato, sunflower, carrot, pepper, eggplant, lupine, mung bean,plum, and Arabidopsis thaliana, were used as templates, which demonstrated that this system wasspecific for rice. In addition, the results of the Southern blot analysis confirmed that the SPS genewas a single copy in the tested rice varieties. In qualitative and quantitative PCR analyses, the detectionsensitivities were 0.05 and 0.005 ng of rice genomic DNA, respectively. To test the practical use ofthis SPS gene as an endogenous reference gene, we have also quantified the 
-glucuronidase (GUS)gene in transgenic rice using this reference gene. These results indicated that the SPS gene wasspecies specific, had one copy number, and had a low heterogeneity among the tested cultivars.Therefore, this gene could be used as an endogenous reference gene of rice and the optimizedPCR systems could be used for practical qualitative and quantitative detection of transgenic rice.Keywords: Oryza sativa; rice; sucrose phosphate synthase; qualitative PCR; quantitative PCR;endogenous reference gene; GMOs detection
-glucuronidase (GUS)gene in transgenic rice using this reference gene. These results indicated that the SPS gene wasspecies specific, had one copy number, and had a low heterogeneity among the tested cultivars.Therefore, this gene could be used as an endogenous reference gene of rice and the optimizedPCR systems could be used for practical qualitative and quantitative detection of transgenic rice.Keywords: Oryza sativa; rice; sucrose phosphate synthase; qualitative PCR; quantitative PCR;endogenous reference gene; GMOs detection