Here we describe a reliable method for isolating genes that are differentially expressed in two cell populations. The method is a combination of subtractive hybridization and PCR. Among many improvements to previously described methods is the incorporation of a new technology into the procedure which sterilizes(inactivates) PCR amplicons, and thereby overcomes the limitation of similar procedur...

Chen G, Yang Y, Fröhlich O, Klein JD, Sands JM. Suppression subtractive hybridization analysis of low-protein dietand vitamin D-induced gene expression from rat kidney inner medullary base. Physiol Genomics 41: 203–211, 2010. First published March 2, 2010; doi:10.1152/physiolgenomics.00129.2009.—Protein restriction and hypercalcemia result in a urinary concentrating defect in rats and humans. P...

We used suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) and oligonucleotide microarray to differentiate expression profiles of metastasis-related genes and to evaluate their clinical significance in patients with invasive oral cancer (OCa). Overexpression of the specific genes was confirmed by reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR). Cells expressing the gene were identified by immunohistochemistry in p...

A recently developed revolutionary approach to transcriptomics, RNA-Seq, and suppression subtractive hybridization are powerful tools for gene expression research. However, currently, the difficulty of isolating high-quality RNAs from plant tissues bearing abundant complex polysaccharides, polyphenolics, and secondary metabolites is a serious problem that not only limits the application of thes...

By a suppression subtractive hybridization based method, nine novel Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (M. paratuberculosis) fragments of between 318 and 596 bp have been identified and characterized. Database search revealed little or no similarity with other mycobacteria. The uniqueness and diagnostic potential of seven of these fragments in relation to M. paratuberculosis closest re...

The aberrant expression of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) has great impacts on cancer origination and progression. In the current study, a newly found lncRNA Z38, which was identified through combining experiments of suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) and reverse dot-blotting, was found to have high expression in breast cancer. More importantly, inhibiting Z38 expression by gene silenci...

A novel theory of subtractive hybridization including (or based on) the kinetic model of this process was proposed. A computer program modeling the process of subtraction was developed. Basing on the theory, a novel method of subtractive hybridization was proposed allowing routine comparison of genomes and products of genome expression. The method was applied to studies of the genetic mechanism...