Visualizing and quantifying protein secretion using a Renilla luciferase-GFP fusion protein

Luminescence

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-49

  Liu, Jingxue ^a   Wang, Yubao ^a   Szalay, Aladar A ^a   Escher, Alan ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Eukaryotic gene expression; Reporter protein

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMALS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHIMERIC PROTEINS; CHINESE HAMSTER OVARY CELLS; EUKARYOTIC GENE EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL ENZYMES; FUSION PROTEINS; MAMMALIAN CELLS; PROTEIN SECRETION; RENILLA LUCIFERASE; REPORTER PROTEIN; WILD TYPES;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 2; LUCIFERASE; PHOTOPROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CHO CELL; COELENTERATE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; LUMINESCENCE; SCYPHOZOA;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CNIDARIA; COS CELLS; CRICETINAE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-2; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCYPHOZOA; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033629903     PISSN: 15227235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-7243(200001/02)15:1<45::AID-BIO553>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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