ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF cDNA FRAGMENTS AND FULL-LENGTH cDNA DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSEDIN HUMAN GLIOBLASTOMA CELL LINE BT-325 VERSUS ALL-TRANS RETINOIC ACID INDUCTION

Objective. To investigate the differentiation process of the human glioblastoma cells. Methods. Differential display reverse transcribed-PCR(DDRT-PCR) was used to isolate the genes differentially expressed in control and all-trans retinoic acid treated human glioblastoma cell line BT-325. Routine method of cDNA library screening was performed to clone full-length cDNA. Results. Thirty-six RT-PCR reactions were performed and 64 differentially expressed fragments were recovered, amplified and cloned. Of them,46 ESTs were sequenced and delivered into the GenBank. The homology comparison us-ing BLAST algorithm revealed that 22ESFs are highly homologous with the known genes and many of them play impor-tant roles in the cell differentiation progress. A dot-blot hybridization was conducted to certify the differemiation expres-sion. The result showed that 27 EST clones are expressed at different level in control and all-traus retinoic acid treated BT-325 cells. A full-length cDNA was cloned using the EST-HGBB098.Conclusion. DDRT-PCR was a simple and effective method to segally analyze the differentially expressed genes.