出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/03/31 07:06 UTC 版)
Cap analysis gene expression (CAGE) is a technique used in molecular biology to produce a snapshot of the 5' end of the messenger RNA population in a biological sample. The small fragments (usually 20-21 nucleotides long) from the very beginnings of mRNAs (5' ends of capped transcripts) are extracted, reverse-transcribed to DNA, PCR amplified and sequenced. CAGE was first published by Hayashizaki and co-workers in 2003 .