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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-5-4
pubmed:abstractText
The expression of two cytokines, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin 3 (IL-3), has been investigated in MLA-144 cells before and after induction with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. We describe an adaptation of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for highly accurate quantitation of mRNA or DNA from a small number of cells. Aliquots of the PCR mixture containing cDNA copies of the RNA to be assayed were added to serial dilutions of a competitor DNA fragment that differed from the cDNA of interest by having either a small intron or a mutated internal restriction enzyme site. Therefore, the same primers were used to coamplify the unknown and the competitor. The ratio of products remains constant through the amplification and can be readily quantitated. In unstimulated cells, no GM-CSF or IL-3 mRNA could be detected. However, with appropriate induction, mRNA for both cytokines was detected and quantitated in as few as 200 cells. Competitive PCR was also used to accurately quantitate the copy number of the human GM-CSF gene in normal human cells, in a clonal population of cells from a patient with 5q- syndrome, and in a human-hamster cell line known to have only one copy of the human GM-CSF gene.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-2495532, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-2565599, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-2645952, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-2677405, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-2780051, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-2838738, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-3045756, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-3257571, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-3290682, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-3488815, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-4028159, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/2181447-518835
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
87
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2725-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Colony-Stimulating Factors, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-DNA Probes, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Growth Substances, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Interleukin-3, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Restriction Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate, pubmed-meshheading:2181447-Transcription, Genetic
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Analysis of cytokine mRNA and DNA: detection and quantitation by competitive polymerase chain reaction.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.