title: Establishment of real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assay for transcriptional analysis of duck enteritis virus UL55 gene.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assay (qRT-PCR) has become the benchmark for detection and quantification of target gene expression level and been utilized increasingly in detection of viral load and therapy monitoring. The dynamic transcription variation of duck enteritis virus UL55 gene during the life cycle of duck enteritis virus in infected cells has not been reported yet.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The newly identified duck enteritis virus UL55 gene was amplified and cloned into pMD18-T vector after digestion to generate a recombinant plasmid pMD18-T/UL55 for the establishment of qRT-PCR as standard DNA. The results of agarose gel electrophoresis and melting curve analysis demonstrated the primers we designed for qRT-PCR were specific and available. We used β-actin as a reference gene for normalization and established two standard curves based on pMD18-T/UL55 and pMD18-T/β-actin successfully. Based on that, the transcriptional analysis of DEV UL55 gene was performed, and the result suggested the expression of UL55 mRNA was at a low level from 0 to 8 h post-infection(p.i.), then accumulated quickly since 12 h p.i. and peaked at 36 h p.i., it can be detected till 60 h p.i.. Nucleic acid inhibition test was carried out for analyzing a temporal regulation condition of DEV UL55 gene, result revealed that it was sensitive to ganciclovir. Synthesis procedures of DEV UL55 gene can be inhibited by ganciclovir.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The method we established in this paper can provide quantitative values reflecting the amounts of measured mRNA in samples. It's available for detection and quantification, also can be used in DEV diagnosis. The DEV UL55 gene was produced most abundantly during the late phase of replication in DEV-infected cells and the transcription of it depended on the synthesized DNA. DEV UL55 gene is a γ2 gene which occurs last and have a strict requirement for viral DNA synthesis.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu City, Sichuan, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Anchun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Mingshu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shunchuan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Dekang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Renyong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Qihui
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Zhengli
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xiaoyue
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D004372:Ducks; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000821:virology; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D025922:Mardivirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012015:Reference Standards; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D014773:Virology / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D017931:DNA Primers; D004279:DNA, Viral; D014764:Viral Proteins