title: The stress kit: a new method based on competitive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction to quantify the expression of human alphaB-crystallin, Hsp27, and Hsp60.
abstract: We describe a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction method for the semiquantitative detection of mRNAs encoding the human heat shock proteins alphaB-crystallin, Hsp27, and Hsp60. The method involves the coamplification of cellular mRNA-derived cDNA with a dilution series of a competitor fragment (internal standard), using 1 primer pair common to both templates. Internal standards were based on cellular-derived cDNA engineered to be slightly smaller to differentiate between the target and the standard on electrophoretic separation. Initial cDNA quantitations can be corrected for possible variations during cDNA synthesis by standardizing to the levels of beta-actin-encoding cDNA. We show that the coamplified templates accumulate in a parallel manner with the cellular-derived cDNA throughout both the exponential and the nonexponential phase of amplification. Furthermore, we illustrate the utility of this technique by quantifying increased expression of alphaB-crystallin, Hsp27, and Hsp60 mRNA in astroglioma cells on heat shock.
authors.affiliation: Division of Immunological and Infectious Diseases, TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bajramović
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Geutskens
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bsibsi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boot
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hassankhan
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Verhulst
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: van Noort
mesh_terms: D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000473:pathology; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D018834:Chaperonin 60 / Q000235:genetics*; D003459:Crystallins / Q000235:genetics*; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D055551:HSP27 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis* / Q000235:genetics; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D018834:Chaperonin 60; D003459:Crystallins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D055551:HSP27 Heat-Shock Proteins; C057725:HSPB1 protein, human; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic