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Table 1 Primers and reaction conditions for the measurement of gene transcriptional levels using quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction

From: Follistatin-like protein 1 plays a tumor suppressor role in clear-cell renal cell carcinoma

Gene

Reaction program

Forward primer (5′–3′)

Reverse primer (5′–3′)

E (%)

R 2

Location

FSTL1

95 °C for 3 min; 45 cycles of 95 °C for 10 s, 60 °C for 10 s, and 72 °C for 25 s

AAATGCAGCTCCCTGTCCAA

ACTCTTGCCCTCCTCCCATAG

95.5

0.999

Transcript: NM_007085.4

Forward primer: exon 11

Reverse primer: exon 11

IL-6

95 °C for 10 min; 45 cycles of 95 °C for 10 s, 60 °C for 10 s, and 72 °C for 25 s

GCTTTAAGGAGTTCCTGC

GGTAAGCCTACACTTTCCA

102.6

0.997

Transcript: NM_000600.4

Forward primer: exon 5

Reverse primer: exon 5

N-cadherin

95 °C for 3 min; 45 cycles of 95 °C for 10 s, 60 °C for 10 s, and 72 °C for 25 s

TGGATGAAGATGGCATGG

AGGTGGCCACTGTGCTTAC

98.6

0.999

Transcript: NM_001792.4

Forward primer: exon 3

Reverse primer: exon 4

E-cadherin

95 °C for 4 min; 40 cycles of 95 °C for 10 s and 60 °C for 45 s

GTCATCCAACGGGAATGCA

TGATCGGTTACCGTGATCAAAA

97.1

0.999

Transcript: NM_004360.4

Forward primer: exon 4

Reverse primer: exon 5

GAPDH

95 °C for 10 min; 45 cycles of 95 °C for 10 s, 60 °C for 10 s, and 72 °C for 25 s

TGACTTCAACAGCGACACCCA

CACCCTGTTGCTGTAGCCAAA

101.5

0.998

Transcript: NM_002046.5

Forward primer: exon 6

Reverse primer: exon 4

  1. E = primer efficiency; R2 = correlation coefficient
  2. FSTL1 follistatin-like protein 1; IL-6 interleukin-6; GAPDH glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase