Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) imaging of protein-protein interactions within deep tissues of living subjects

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 12060-12065

  Dragulescu Andrasi, Anca ^a   Chan, Carmel T ^a   De, Abhijit ^b   Massoud, Tarik F ^a,c   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical imaging; Reporter gene

Indexed keywords

ENZYME VARIANT; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RENILLA LUCIFERIN 2 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RED LIGHT; TISSUE CULTURE; TUMOR MODEL;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMIDAZOLES; LUCIFERASES, RENILLA; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PYRAZINES; TACROLIMUS BINDING PROTEIN 1A; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RENILLA LUCIFERASE; RENILLA RENIFORMIS;

EID: 79961083286     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100923108     Document Type: Article

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