Quantitative PCR & Housekeeping Genes

From: Mario Roederer (Roederer@drmr.com)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 16:49:08 EST


Hi, a little off the flow topic (but only a little)....

we are doing quantitative PCR on very small numbers of sorted cells,
and are looking around for a different housekeeping gene for control
purposes than beta-actin.  We need one with an intron so that we can
differentiate cDNA from genomic in our ultrasensitive amplifications.

For people who are using housekeeping RNA's as controls, I'd like to
get feedback:  what gene products do you measure?  Do you take
advantage of spanning a splice junction?  Have you measured the
variation in different cell types or stimulation conditions?

Thanks for any info

mr



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