title: Determination of relative abundance of splicing variants of Oreochromis glutamate receptors by quantitative reverse-transcriptase PCR.
abstract: In this study, the relative abundance of splicing variants of Oreochromis non-NMDA subtype glutamate receptors was studied by quantitative reverse-transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR). The relative expression level between the flip and flop transcripts of fGluR2 alpha determined by quantitative RT-PCR is apparently much higher than that estimated by sequence analysis of the cloned RT-PCR products. Control studies were performed to demonstrate the accuracy of the application of quantitative RT-PCR analysis in studying the relative abundance between the flip and flop transcripts of glutamate receptors.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Radiation Biology, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kung
authors.forename: W Y
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Chow
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D005091:Exons; D014644:Genetic Variation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017470:Receptors, Glutamate / Q000235:genetics*; D017210:Tilapia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D017470:Receptors, Glutamate; D012313:RNA