Seeing the light: Luminescent reporter gene assays

Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 648-657

  Miraglia, Loren J ^a   King, Frederick J ^a,b   Damoiseaux, Robert ^c  

^a GENOMICS INSTITUTE OF THE NOVARTIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Firefly; Luciferase Renilla; Luciferin; Promoter; Reporter gene assay (RGA)

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE;

ASSAY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LUMINESCENT REPORTER GENE ASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TECHNOLOGY;

GENES, REPORTER; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE;

AVES; RENILLA;

EID: 79961034737     PISSN: 13862073     EISSN: 18755402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138620711796504389     Document Type: Review

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