Quantitative detection of ING1 mRNA under different gene regulation based on molecular beacon

The effects of drug treatment, gene transfection, and p53 RNA interference (RNAi) on level of ING1 mRNA in tumor cells were quantitatively detected with the help of ING1 molecular beacon (MB)/cRNA standard curve based on MB detection technology. Results showed that the level of ING1 mRNA could be upregulated by 5-FU treatment or ING1 transfection in low expression cell line of MCF-7 and be inhibited by silencing p53 with RNAi technology in normal expression cell line of CNE2. The level of ING1 varied from 7.7×10?16 to 53.4× 10?16 mol/μg total RNA of tumor cells. The results not only provided evidence for the regulation effects of gene expression but also were applied to investigat- ing the interaction of multigenes on signal transduc- tion pathway.