Differential Display of Eukaryotic Messenger RNA by Means of the Polymerase Chain Reaction
- 14 August 1992
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 257 (5072), 967-971
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1354393
Abstract
Effective methods are needed to identify and isolate those genes that are differentially expressed in various cells or under altered conditions. This report describes a method to separate and clone individual messenger RNAs (mRNAs) by means of the polymerase chain reaction. The key element is to use a set of oligonucleotide primers, one being anchored to the polyadenylate tail of a subset of mRNAs, the other being short and arbitrary in sequence so that it anneals at different positions relative to the first primer. The mRNA subpopulations defined by these primer pairs were amplified after reverse transcription and resolved on a DNA sequencing gel. When multiple primer sets were used, reproducible patterns of amplified complementary DNA fragments were obtained that showed strong dependence on sequence specificity of either primer.Keywords
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