In vivo bioluminescence imaging of furin activity in breast cancer cells using bioluminogenic substrates

Bioconjugate Chemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1660-1666

  Dragulescu Andrasi, Anca ^a   Liang, Gaolin ^a   Rao, Jianghong ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRO AMINOLUCIFERIN; FURIN; LUCIFERASE; LUCIFERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENICITY; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIREFLY LUCIFERIN; FURIN; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 70349118135     PISSN: 10431802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bc9002508     Document Type: Article

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