Total RNA was extracted by a single-step phenol–chloroform–isoamyl alcohol extraction procedure modified from the protocol previously described
3 (link). Total RNA was isolated from cells by using the
Trizol reagent protocol (Sigma). cDNA was synthesized using
M-MLV Reverse Transcriptase (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). For real-time PCR analysis, reverse transcription was performed using 1 μg of total RNA and oligo (dT) primer in a 20 μl reaction according to the manufacturer’s protocol (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, USA). Real-time PCR was performed using the Mx3005 qPCR system (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA) with
SYBR green (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA). The relative abundance of each mRNA was calculated using the ΔΔCt method and normalized to GAPDH. Primers are listed in Supplementary Table
S3.
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