Tuberc Respir Dis.  2004 Apr;56(4):393-404.

Assessment of the Specificity of A Hybridization of Surfactant Protein A by Addition of Non-specific Rat Spleen RNA

Affiliations
  • 1Departments of Internal Medicine, Hanyang and Cheju* Universities, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. parkss@hanyang.ac.kr

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Nucleic acid hybridization has become an essential technique in the development of our understanding of gene structure and function. The quantitative analysis of hybridization has been used in the measurement of genome complexity and gene copy number. The filter hybridization assay is rapid, sensitive and can be used to measure RNAs complementary to any cloned DNA sequence.
METHODS
The authors assessed the accuracy, linearity, correlation coefficient and specificity of the hybridization depending on the added dose(0, 1, 5, and 10 microgram) of non-specific rat spleen RNA to hybridization of surfactant protein A mRNA. Filter hybridization assays were used to obtain the equation of standard curve and thereby to quantitate the mRNA quantitation.
METHODS
1. Standard curve equation of filter hybridization assay between counts per minute (X) and spleen RNA input (Y) was Y=0.13X-19.35. Correlation coefficient was 0.98. 2. Standard curve equation of filter hybridization assay between counts per minute (X) and surfactant protein A mRNA transcript input (Y) was Y=0.00066X-0.046. Correlation coefficient was 0.99. 3. Standard curve equation of filter hybridization assay between counts per minute (X) and surfactant protein A mRNA transcript input (Y) after the addition of 1 microgram spleen RNA was Y=0.00056X-0.051. Correlation coefficient was 0.99. 4. Standard curve equation of filter hybridization assay between counts per minute (X) and surfactant protein A mRNA transcript input (Y) after the addition of 5 microgram spleen RNA was Y=0.00065X-0.088. Correlation coefficient was 0.99. 5. Standard curve equation of filter hybridization assay between counts per minute (X) and surfactant protein A mRNA transcript input (Y) after the addition of 10 microgram spleen RNA was Y=0.00051X-0.10. Correlation coefficient was 0.99.
CONCLUSIONS
Comparison of cpm/filter in a linear range allowed accurate and reproducible estimation of surfactant protein A mRNA copy number irrespective of the addition dosage of non-specific rat spleen RNA over the range 0-10 microgram.

Keyword

Hybridization; Non-specific RNA; Spleen

MeSH Terms

Animals
Base Sequence
Clone Cells
Gene Dosage
Genome
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein A*
Rats*
RNA*
RNA, Messenger
Sensitivity and Specificity*
Spleen*
Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein A
RNA
RNA, Messenger
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