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Selection of Stable Reference Genes for Real-Time Quantitative PCR Analysis in Edwardsiella tarda

  • Sun, Zhongyang (State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Deng, Jia (State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Wu, Haizhen (State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Wang, Qiyao (State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Zhang, Yuanxing (State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2016.05.10
  • Accepted : 2016.09.09
  • Published : 2017.01.28
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Abstract

Edwardsiella tarda is a gram-negative pathogenic bacterium in aquaculture that can cause hemorrhagic septicemia in fish. Many secreted proteins have already been identified as virulent factors of E. tarda. Moreover, since virulent phenotypes are based on the expression regulation of virulent genes, understanding the expression profile of virulent genes is important. A quantitative RT-PCR is one of the preferred methods for determining different gene expressions. However, this requires the selection of a stable reference gene in E. tarda, which has not yet been systematically studied. Accordingly, this study evaluated nine candidate reference genes (recA, uup, rpoB, rho, topA, gyrA, groEL, rpoD, and 16S rRNA) using the Excel-based programs BestKeeper, GeNorm, and NormFinder under different culture conditions. The results showed that 16S rRNA was more stable than the other genes at different culture growth phases. However, at the same culture time, topA was identified as the reference gene under the conditions of different strains, different culture media, and infection, whereas gyrA was identified under the condition of different temperatures. Thus, in experiments, the expression of gapA and fbaA in E. tarda was analyzed by RT-qPCR using 16S rRNA, recA, and uup as the reference genes. The results showed that 16S rRNA was the most suitable reference gene in this analysis, and that using unsuitable reference genes resulted in inaccurate results.

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