Has anyone used commercial primers for drosophila e-cadherin? Can I use human?

07 July 2018 1 2K Report

I have been working through a ChIP-qPCR experiment and am hoping to run a comparative Ct qPCR analysis. I want to use e-cadherin as a housekeeping gene, but realized the primers from my lab are from human.

Has anyone developed primers for e-cadherin in drosophila, if so, any suggestions?

Thanks,

Cody Boyle

I have done a little research into this question.

Thank you for your response Sebastian.

Literary review has shown a similar sequence in drosophila called frz-1.

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