pre-mRNA splicing in C. elegans

To study pre-mRNA splicing function of the ubiquitin-like protein Hub1/UBL-5 in Caenorhabditis elegans. We have employed splicing-sensitive microarray expression profiling to examine the changes in pre-mRNA splicing. We collected wild-type and ubl-5 knock out worms at L3 stage and isolated total RNA. Which was reverse transcribed to double-stranded cDNA and cRNA was generated by in vitro transcription. The labeled cRNA samples were fragmented at 60°C and hybridized on to an Agilent Gene Expression Microarray. The data showed accumulation of intron- and outron containing transcripts in ubl-5 knockout worms in comparison to wild-type worms Agilent Custom C.elegans 8x60k one color Gene Expression Array designed by Genotypic Technology Private Limited. (AMADID: 84944)