A Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell-based quantitative β-galactosidase assay compatible with robotic handling and high-throughput screening

Yeast

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-76

  de Almeida, Rogerio Alves ^a   Burgess, Danielle ^a   Shema, Reut ^a,c   Motlekar, Nuzhat ^b   Napper, Andrew D ^b   Diamond, Scott L ^b   Pavitt, Graham D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

High throughput screening; LacZ reporter assay luciferase; galactosidase

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LUCIFERIN; REAGENT;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRONICS; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MAMMAL CELL; MATERIALS HANDLING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME; YEAST CELL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 38749106175     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1570     Document Type: Article

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