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Isolation of Genes (With Known or Unknown Products) Having Tissue Specific Expression
It is much easier to isolate genes which are expressed in specific tissues. For instance, genes for storage proteins are expressed only in developing seeds, ovalbumin gene is expressed in oviduct or globin gene is expressed in erythrocytes. Such genes can be easily isolated because mRNA extracted from these specific tissues will either exclusively belong to the gene of interest or it will be rich in this species of mRNA.

Other mRNA molecules in minor quantities can be eliminated, since these can be identified through hybridization with mRNA from tissues where this gene is silent. This strategy which is outlined in was actually followed for isolation and cloning of carrot genes expressed during the development of somatic embryos, and also for the isolation of several genes for storage proteins in crop plants.

Isolation of a gene with specific expression using its mRNA

Isolation of a Gene with Specific Expression Using Its mRNA

 

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