Amplifying the fluorescence of bilirubin enables the real-time detection of heme oxygenase activity

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 305-311

  Klemz, Roman ^a   Mashreghi, Mir Farzin ^b   Spies, Claudia ^a   Volk, Hans Dieter ^a   Kotsch, Katja ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b German Rheumatism Research Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilirubin; Enzymatic activity; Fluorescence; Free radicals; Heme oxygenase; High throughput assay; Recombinant biliverdin reductase

Indexed keywords

HEME OXYGENASE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HEMIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BILIRUBIN; FLUORESCENCE; HEME OXYGENASE-1; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE DELETION; SERUM ALBUMIN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58049109137     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2008.10.044     Document Type: Article

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