YI Bin, CHANG Hong, CAO Yi. Improvement of Methods for Total RNA Extraction from Hepatocarcinoma Tissues and Cell Lines and Comparison of Reverse Transcription and cDNA Cloning Strategies. Zoological Research, 2009, 30(5): 520-526. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1141.2009.05520
Citation:
YI Bin, CHANG Hong, CAO Yi. Improvement of Methods for Total RNA Extraction from Hepatocarcinoma Tissues and Cell Lines and Comparison of Reverse Transcription and cDNA Cloning Strategies. Zoological Research, 2009, 30(5): 520-526. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1141.2009.05520
YI Bin, CHANG Hong, CAO Yi. Improvement of Methods for Total RNA Extraction from Hepatocarcinoma Tissues and Cell Lines and Comparison of Reverse Transcription and cDNA Cloning Strategies. Zoological Research, 2009, 30(5): 520-526. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1141.2009.05520
Citation:
YI Bin, CHANG Hong, CAO Yi. Improvement of Methods for Total RNA Extraction from Hepatocarcinoma Tissues and Cell Lines and Comparison of Reverse Transcription and cDNA Cloning Strategies. Zoological Research, 2009, 30(5): 520-526. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1141.2009.05520
Improvement of Methods for Total RNA Extraction from Hepatocarcinoma Tissues and Cell Lines and Comparison of Reverse Transcription and cDNA Cloning Strategies
Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Diseases Mechanisms , Kunming Institute of Zoology, the ChineseAcademy of Sciences, Kunming Yunnan 650223, China;2. Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
In this report, we have developed efficient methods for total RNA extraction from hepatocarcinoma tissues and cell lines, reverse transcription,cDNA cloning and quantitive real-time PCR (q-RT-PCR). We compared the effect of two reverse transcriptase (M-MLV, SuperScriptII) on the efficiency of total RNA reverse transcription and four DNA polymerase(Taq polymerase,Pfu polymerase, LA taq polymerase,Prime Star polymerase) in cloning large fragment of cDNA. The impact of different RNA integrity on q-RT-PCR and large fragment of cDNA cloning had also been investigated in this study. The newly developed RNA extraction method greatly improved the integrity of total RNA. We found that the integrity of total RNA is vital to large fragment cDNA cloning. RNA degraded at some extent is only suitable for q-RT-PCR analysis but not for cDNA cloning.