Determination of Suitable Housekeeping Genes for Normalisation of Quantitative Real Time PCR Analysis of Cells Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Herpes Viruses

Overview

Journal Virol J

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2007 Dec 7

PMID 18053162

Citations 45

Authors

Sarah Watson

Sarah Mercier

Chris Bye

John Wilkinson

Anthony L Cunningham

Andrew N Harman

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Abstract

The choice of an appropriate housekeeping gene for normalisation purposes has now become an essential requirement when designing QPCR experiments. This is of particular importance when using QPCR to measure viral and cellular gene transcription levels in the context of viral infections as viruses can significantly interfere with host cell pathways, the components of which traditional housekeeping genes often encode. In this study we have determined the reliability of 10 housekeeping genes in context of four heavily studied viral infections; human immunodeficiency virus type 1, herpes simplex virus type 1, cytomegalovirus and varicella zoster virus infections using a variety of cell types and virus strains. This provides researchers of these viruses with a shortlist of potential housekeeping genes to use as normalisers for QPCR experiments.

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