Monitoring cell-autonomous circadian clock rhythms of gene expression using luciferase bioluminescence reporters

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 67, 2012, Pages

  Ramanathan, Chidambaram ^a   Khan, Sanjoy K ^a   Kathale, Nimish D ^a   Xu, Haiyan ^a   Liu, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell autonomous model; Cellular biology; Chemical biology; Circadian clock; Firefly luciferase; Genetics; High throughput screening (HTS); Issue 67; Lentiviral vector; Molecular biology; Real time bioluminescence technology; RNA interference (RNAI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868295015     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4234     Document Type: Article

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