Firefly luciferase terminally degraded by mild heat exposure: Implications for reporter assays

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 310, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 182-185

  Harrison, Ewen M ^a   Garden, O J ^a   Ross, James A ^a   Wigmore, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Enzyme activity; Firefly luciferase; Heat; Heat shock proteins

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; TIME;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENES, REPORTER; HEAT; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSFECTION;

SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 33644859462     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2005.11.022     Document Type: Article

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