Fluorophore-NanoLuc BRET reporters enable sensitive In Vivo optical imaging and flow cytometry for monitoring tumorigenesis

Cancer Research

Volumn 75, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 5023-5033

  Schaub, Franz X ^a   Reza, Md Shamim ^b   Flaveny, Colin A ^c   Li, Weimin ^a   Musicant, Adele M ^d   Hoxha, Sany ^b   Guo, Min ^b   Cleveland, John L ^a   Amelio, Antonio L ^d,e  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUMINESCENT AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; OPLOPHORUS GRACILIROSTRIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHRIMP; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; LUNG TUMOR; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCID MOUSE; SYNTHESIS; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HETEROGRAFTS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, SCID; OPTICAL IMAGING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 84955286419     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-3538     Document Type: Article

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