SuperSAGE: a modern platform for genome-wide quantitative transcript profiling

Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2008 Oct;9(5):368-74. doi: 10.2174/138920108785915157.

Abstract

SuperSAGE is a variant of SAGE (Serial Analysis of Gene Expression) technology, which allows making transcript profiling by 26-bp tags extracted from cDNA employing the typeIII restriction enzyme EcoP15I. Its tag length is the longest among all the versions of SAGE, and is advantageous in tag-to-gene annotation, thereby allowing the technique to applicable to any eukaryotic life organisms. For model organisms with genome or cDNA sequences available, genes corresponding to 26-bp tags are uniquely defined by simple BLAST search. For non-model organisms without these sequence information, the 26-bp tag sequence is directly applicable to design PCR primer for amplifying cDNA of corresponding genes by 3'- or 5'-RACE. Furthermore, SuperSAGE allows various applications including "interaction transcriptome" and "SuperSAGE array". Emerging "Next Generation Sequencing" technologies perfectly complement SuperSAGE, and their combination has generated a novel transcriptome platform, that is superior to all the different microarray variants in terms of throughput, data quality and cost of analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Chromosome Mapping / methods*
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Expressed Sequence Tags*
  • Gene Expression Profiling / trends*
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods*
  • Proteome / metabolism*
  • Transcription Factors / metabolism*

Substances

  • Proteome
  • Transcription Factors