A Gene Expression Screen Zhou Wang and Donald D. Brown Presented By: Neema Izadi

Introduction In Amphibian Tadpole 1)Thyroid hormone is known to cause tail degeneration. 2)Study done to figure out which genes are up regulated and down regulated. 3)Used genetic screening Estimate number of genes involved Identify genes involved Guarantee genes are involved in process

Background 1)Microarray techniques are presently used to identify differing gene expression 2)Instead of ~20 genes, DNA Microarray can find hundreds. 3)Microarray techniques did not become available until )This study was done in 1991

Materials and Methods Preparing the cDNA 1)Amputated tadpole tails and created: (-) control and (+) T3-treated 2)Oligo(dT) used to prime first cDNA strand 3)Average size insert was 2 to 3 kb, largest was 5kb.

Materials and Methods Preparing the cDNA driver 1)cDNA digested with: Alu I and Alu I plus Rsa I seperately. 2)Ligated with oiligonucleotide linker with one blunt end and one protruding end. Linker Contained a EcoRI site near the end 3)Driver was biotinylated so that they could be detected later by adding streptavidin. 4)Drivers are PCR amplified

Materials and Methods Subtractive Hybridization Involves many cycles of the following: 1)Long Hybridization – supress common complex rare cDNA. 2)Short Hybridization – supress common abundant cDNA.

Materials and Methods Subtractive Hybridization CONTINUED 3) PCR 4) Hybrids were removed by extractions using Streptavidin 5) While residual driver fragments were removed by digestion with EcoRI

Enrichment of Up-Regulated Genes

Enrichment of Down-Regulated Genes

Results After 3 Cycles of Subtractive Enrichment: 1)The enriched cDNA fragments were amplified with 30 cycles of PCR. 2)They were cleaved with EcoRI and ligated to a vector for transformation. 3)3000 colonies of each cDNA library were screened.

Comparison of differentially expressed genes

Results 1) Alltogether they found 30 non-cross- hybridizing cDNA fragments 5 from (-) group, down-regulated 25 from (+) group, up-regulated 2)They perfomed Nothern blots to check for redundancy of the cDNA Found 6 (+) and 1 (-) were redundant 3) Thus, they isolated 16 up-regulated genes and 4 down regulated genes.

Conclusion A Gene Expression Screen Poisson distribution was used to predict how many total genes were involved using statistics.

Limitations 1)Gene expression screen will not detect: genes that lack a poly(A) tail Genes that are small enough to escape restriction enzyme digestion Genes that can not be amplified by PCR 2)PCR also provides its own bias PCR does not amplify everything uniformly so biases in frequency may result.

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