IGLuc: A luciferase-based inflammasome and protease activity reporter

Nature Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-154

  Bartok, Eva ^a   Bauernfeind, Franz ^a   Khaminets, Maria G ^a   Jakobs, Christopher ^a   Monks, Brian ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Katherine A ^b   Latz, Eicke ^a,b   Hornung, Veit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; LUCIFERASE; MONOMER; PRO INTERLEUKIN 1BETA GAUSSIA LUCIFERASE FUSION PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CASPASE 1; CELL LINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; INFLAMMASOMES; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LUCIFERASES; MICE; TRANSFECTION;

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EID: 84873408537     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2327     Document Type: Article

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