Identification of differentially expressed genes in murine embryos at the blastocyst stage using annealing control primer system

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Abstract

The identification of embryo-specific genes would provide insights into early embryonic development. However, the current methods employed to identify the genes that are expressed at a specific developmental stage are labor intensive and suffer from high rates of false positives. Here we employed a new and accurate reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method that involves annealing control primers (ACPs) to identify the genes that are specifically or prominently expressed in mouse blastocysts compared to 4-cell stage embryos. Using 120 ACPs, we identified and sequenced 74 of these differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) searches revealed that 53 were known genes, 9 encoded ribosomal proteins, and 12 were unknown genes. Of the known genes, 14 were selected and further characterized using real-time quantitative PCR to assess their stage-specific expression in mouse embryos. This analysis suggests that the ACP system is a very good method for the identification of stage-specific genes in small numbers of mouse embryos. Further analysis of the differentially expressed blastocyst genes we have identified will provide insights into the molecular basis of preimplantation development.

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