Abstract:
Objective To establish a stable and suitable real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) experiment system of TbAP2 in Taxus L.
Method Total RNA was extracted from the cell line of Taxus×media and used to reverse transcript cDNA. According to the sequence of TbAP2 gene obtained previously, 7 primer pairs were designed and synthesized with the TBC41 gene as the housekeeping gene. The orthogonal test L9 (34) method were used to choose the stable and suitable qRT-PCR experiment system with the cDNA as template. The volume of qRT-PCR reaction included 5, 10 and 20μL. The amplification efficiency would be assured between 90%-105% by adjusting the dosage of cDNA template and primer pairs, respectively.
Result This study established the optimal qRT-PCR reaction system of TBC41 TbAP2 and gene in 5μL, 10μL and 20μL volume. In the optimized 5μL system, the amplification efficiency of both TBC41 and TbAP2 were 94%. In the optimized 10μL system, the amplification efficiency of TBC41 and TbAP2 were 95% and 94%, respectively. In the optimized 20μL system, the amplification efficiency of TBC41 and TbAP2 were 93% and 99%, respectively. The regression coefficient R2 in all the three amplification system were greater than 0.980.
Conclusion All the reaction systems mentioned above show that the amplification efficiency of TBC41 and TbAP2 close to 100%, indicating that these detection program are suitable to investigate the TbAP2 gene expression by qRT-PCR method.