Hieff UNICON® qPCR SYBR Green Master Mix (Yeasen Biotechnology, Shanghai, China) was used for quantitative PCR and the program as follows: pre-denaturing: 95 °C, 3 min; a total of 40 cycles of 95 °C 10 s, 60 °C 20 s, and 72 °C 20 s, then melting curve analysis at the end. The relative gene expression was calculated by 2−ΔΔCT method [53 (link)], and GAPDH was used as a reference.
Quantitative PCR gene primers were designed by Primer3 [54 (link)] and synthesized by Tsingke (Shanghai, China). The sequences of primers are listed in