Poirier G M, Pyati J, Wan J S, Erlander M G
R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1997 Feb 15;25(4):913-4. doi: 10.1093/nar/25.4.913.
The major obstacle of differential display is not the technique itself but rather the post-differential display issueof discriminating between false positives and the truly differentially expressed mRNAs. This process is arduous and requires large amounts of RNA. We present and validate a method which allows one to screen putative positives from differential display analysis using only micrograms of total RNA. More importantly, we demonstrate that cDNA probes generated from amplified RNA are representative of the starting mRNA population and can be used for differential screening of mRNA species at a detectable limit of sensitivity of>/=1/40 000.
差异显示的主要障碍并非技术本身,而是差异显示后的问题,即区分假阳性和真正差异表达的mRNA。这个过程艰巨且需要大量RNA。我们提出并验证了一种方法,该方法仅使用微克级的总RNA就能从差异显示分析中筛选出假定的阳性结果。更重要的是,我们证明从扩增RNA生成的cDNA探针代表起始mRNA群体,可用于以≥1/40 000的可检测灵敏度对mRNA种类进行差异筛选。