Quantitation of c-erbB-2 in patients with breast cancer by using fluorogenic quantitative polymerase chain reaction method / 中国病理生理杂志

ABSTRACT

AIM: To establish a fluorogenic quantitative polymerase chain reaction (FQ-PCR) method for the routine examination of c-erbB-2 gene expression in breast cancer. METHODS: The c-erbB-2 standard gene was obtained by in vitro amplification of cloned c-erbB-2 fragment in plasmid PGEM-T easy vector. FQ-PCR product was detected by using a 7700 ABI PRISM sequence detector system and c-erbB-2 standard curve was obtained to quantity c-erbB-2 in unknown samples. RESULTS: “S” kinetics curve of FQ-PCR amplification was generated by relating the fluorescence signal intensity (△Rn) to the cycle number. The standard curve of c-erbB-2 was constructed by the linear relationship between the cycle threshold (ct) and the log of starting copy number. The high correlation (0.999) revealed the reliability of FQ-PCR. CONCLUSION: The FQ-PCR is a rapid, sensitive, reliable method for quantity of c-erbB-2 gene expression.