Renilla luciferase-Aequorea GFP (Ruc-GFP) fusion protein, a novel dual reporter for real-time imaging of gene expression in cell cultures and in live animals

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 160-168

  Wang, Y ^a   Yu, Y A ^a   Shabahang, S ^a,b   Wang, G ^a   Szalay, A A ^a  

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

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aequorea GFP; Aequorea GFP (Ruc GFP) fusion protein; Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); Renilla luciferase; Reporter gene

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHINESE HAMSTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; JELLYFISH; LUMINESCENCE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPECTRUM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CNIDARIA; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

AEQUOREA; ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; MAMMALIA; RENILLA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 0036460782     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0751-9     Document Type: Article

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