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Table 2 Quantitative RT-PCR compared to RNA-seq data for 16 genes a

From: Expression profile of Caenorhabditis elegans mutant for the Werner syndrome gene ortholog reveals the impact of vitamin C on development to increase life span

RNA-seq

RT-PCR

Gene

Base mean in N2

Base mean in wrn-1

Fold difference

ΔCt

Fold difference

P-value

sodh-1

465

5021

+10.79

3.02

+8.09

<0.001

arrd-24

4

32

+7.80

none

N/A

N/A

gpx-3

24

146

+6.21

1.07

+3.24

0.0012

nas-3

49

220

+4.51

1.78

+3.43

<0.001

daf-9

168

605

+3.60

1.48

+2.78

<0.001

asah-1

393

1200

+3.06

0.72

+1.65

0.0008

acs-2

594

1277

+3.30

1.80

+3.48

<0.001

acs-14

763

2289

+3.00

0.52

+1.43

0.0307

ech-9

155

449

+2.89

1.94

+3.84

0.0006

Y46G5.20

1182

381

-3.10

-2.05

-4.14

0.0001

cyp-33e2

1708

548

-3.12

-2.70

-6.52

<0.001

cyp-34a9

987

289

-3.41

-2.05

-4.15

<0.001

pes-8

256

66

-3.84

-2.06

-4.16

0.0204

ugt-33

269

69

-3.90

-1.67

-3.18

0.0008

lys-8

3405

155

-21.93

-4.45

-21.87

<0.001

nlp-32

135

5

-28.69

none

N/A

N\A

tba-1 b

12597

10618

-1.19

-0.12

-1.09

0.7083

  1. aRT-PCRs were performed in triplicate and all values represent the means.
  2. bThe tba-1 gene was used as a control (no difference of expression between N2 and wrn-1 mutants).