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Optimal RNA isolation method and primer design to detect gene knockdown by qPCR when validating Drosophila transgenic RNAi lines

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, November 2017
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Title
Optimal RNA isolation method and primer design to detect gene knockdown by qPCR when validating Drosophila transgenic RNAi lines
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BMC Research Notes, November 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13104-017-2959-0
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Roslyn L. Mainland, Taylor A. Lyons, Mike M. Ruth, Jamie M. Kramer

Abstract

RNA interference is employed extensively in Drosophila research to study gene function within a specific cell-type or tissue. Thousands of transgenic Drosophila lines have been generated to express double stranded RNA for gene knockdown; however, no standardized method exists for quantifying their knockdown efficiency. Since antibodies are not available for many proteins, quantitative real-time PCR is often used. Here, we explore how primer design and RNA isolation method can influence detection of gene knockdown using qPCR. We tested differences in detected gene knockdown efficiency when using purified polyadenylated mRNA or total RNA as templates for cDNA synthesis. We also tested two different primer locations for each gene: one to amplify a region 5' of the RNAi cut site, and one to amplify a region 3' of the cut site. Consistently, the strongest gene knockdown was detected when qPCR was performed using 5' primer sets in combination with mRNA-derived cDNA. Our results indicate that detection of undegraded mRNA cleavage fragments can result in underestimation of true knockdown efficiency for a RNAi construct. Purification of polyadenylated mRNA, combined with primers designed to amplify the non-polyadenylated 5' mRNA cleavage fragment can avoid this problem.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 17%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Researcher 8 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 16 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 32 46%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 16%
Neuroscience 4 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 4%
Environmental Science 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 17 25%
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#14,086,058
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#1,871
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#228,825
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#65
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