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PLOS ONE
卷 7, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031849
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- East Carolina University
- North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Despite rapid development and application of a wide range of manufactured metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs), the understanding of potential risks of using NPs is less completed, especially at the molecular level. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has been emerging as an environmental model to study the molecular mechanism of environmental contaminations, using standard genetic tools such as the real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). The most important factor that may affect the accuracy of RT-qPCR is to choose appropriate genes for normalization. In this study, we selected 13 reference gene candidates (act-1, cdc-42, pmp-3, eif-3. C, actin, act-2, csq-1, Y45F10D. 4, tba-1, mdh-1, ama-1, F35G12.2, and rbd-1) to test their expression stability under different doses of nano-copper oxide (CuO 0, 1, 10, and 50 mu g/mL) using RT-qPCR. Four algorithms, geNorm, NormFinder, BestKeeper, and the comparative DCt method, were employed to evaluate these 13 candidates expressions. As a result, tba-1, Y45F10D. 4 and pmp-3 were the most reliable, which may be used as reference genes in future study of nanoparticle-induced genetic response using C. elegans.
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