Validation of housekeeping genes as internal controls for studying the gene expression in <i>Pyropia haitanensis</i> (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) by quantitative real-time PCR

LI Bing; CHEN Changsheng; XU Yan; JI Dehua; XIE Chaotian

doi:10.1007/s13131-014-0526-2

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LI Bing, CHEN Changsheng, XU Yan, JI Dehua, XIE Chaotian. Validation of housekeeping genes as internal controls for studying the gene expression in Pyropia haitanensis (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) by quantitative real-time PCR[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(9): 152-159. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0526-2

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LI Bing, CHEN Changsheng, XU Yan, JI Dehua, XIE Chaotian. Validation of housekeeping genes as internal controls for studying the gene expression in Pyropia haitanensis (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) by quantitative real-time PCR[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(9): 152-159. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0526-2

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Validation of housekeeping genes as internal controls for studying the gene expression in Pyropia haitanensis (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) by quantitative real-time PCR

doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0526-2

Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China

Received Date: 2013-04-02
Rev Recd Date: 2013-12-18

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Pyropia haitanensis is an economically important mariculture crop in China and has a high research value for several life phenomena, for example environmental tolerance. To explore the mechanisms underlying these characteristics, gene expression has been investigated at the whole transcriptome level. Gene expression studies using quantitative real-time PCR should start by selecting an appropriate internal control gene; therefore, the absolute expression abundance of six housekeeping genes (18S rRNA (18S), ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (UBC), actin (ACT), β-tubulin (TUB), elongation factors 2 (EF2), and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) examined by the quantitative real-time PCR in samples corresponding to different strains, life-cycle stages and abiotic stress treatments. Their expression stabilities were assessed by the comparative cycle threshold (C_t) method and by two different software packages: geNorm and Norm-Finder. The most stable housekeeping gene is UBC and the least stable housekeeping is GADPH. Thus, it is proposed that the most appropriate internal control gene for expression analyses in P. haitanensis is UBC. The results pave the way for further gene expression analyses of different aspects of P. haitanensis biology including different strains, life-history stages and abiotic stress responses.
- Pyropia haitanensis,
- quantitative real-time PCR,
- internal control genes,
- gene expression

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