title: Comparison between NuGEN's WT-Ovation Pico and one-direct amplification systems.
abstract: Differential gene expression between groups of homogenous cell types is a biological question whose time has come. RNA can be extracted from small numbers of cells, such as those isolated by laser-capture microdissection, but the small amounts obtained often require amplification to enable whole genome transcriptome profiling by technologies such as microarray analysis and RNA-seq. Recently, advances in amplification procedures make amplification directly from whole cell lysates possible. The aim of this study was to compare two amplification systems for variations in observed RNA abundance attributable to the amplification procedure for use with small quantities of cells isolated by laser-capture microdissection. Arabidopsis root cells undergoing giant cell formation as a result of nematode infestation and uninfested control root cells were laser-captured and used to evaluate two amplification systems. One, NuGEN's WT-Ovation Pico (Pico) amplification system, uses total RNA as starting material, and the other, NuGEN's WT-One-Direct (One-Direct) amplification system, uses lysate containing the captured cells. The reproducibility of whole genome transcript profiling and correlations of both systems were investigated after microarray analysis. The One-Direct system was less reproducible and more variable than the Pico system. The Pico amplification kit resulted in the detection of thousands of differentially expressed genes between giant cells and control cells. This is in marked contrast to the relatively few genes detected after amplification with the One-Direct amplification kit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
authors.forename: Alison M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Morse
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Carballo
authors.forename: Donald A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Baldwin
authors.forename: Christopher G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Lauren M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: McIntyre
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics; D005784:Gene Amplification; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014431:Tylenchoidea / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D012313:RNA
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