cDNA fingerprinting of osteoprogenitor cells to isolate differentiation stage-specific genes

Autor: S. D. Sandler, Alejandro A. Floh, Y. Rao, G. A. Candeliere, J. E. Aubin
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Nucleic Acids Research. 27:1079-1083
ISSN: 1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/27.4.1079
Popis: A cDNA fingerprinting strategy was developed to identify genes based on their differential expression pattern during osteoblast development. Preliminary biological and molecular staging of cDNA pools prepared by global amplification PCR allowed discrim-inating choices to be made in selection of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) to be isolated. Sequencing of selected ESTs confirmed that both known and novel genes can be isolated from any developmental stage of interest, e.g. from primitive progenitors, intermediate precursors or mature osteoblasts. EST expression provides insight into possible interrelated physiological functions and putative interacting molecules during differentiation. This method offers a functional genomics approach to isolate differentiation stage-specific genes in samples as small as a single cell.
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