Multicolor bioluminescence obtained using firefly luciferin

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 2648-2655

  Kiyama, Masahiro ^a   Saito, Ryohei ^a   Iwano, Satoshi ^a   Obata, Rika ^b   Niwa, Haruki ^a   Maki, Shojiro A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological window; Bioluminescence imaging; Enhanced emission; Firefly; Luciferin analogue; Multicolor emission; Near infrared

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; LUCIFERIN; SELENIUM;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOLUMINESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; CELL VIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTINUS PYRALIS; POINT MUTATION; RENILLA RENIFORMIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; LUMINESCENCE;

ANIMALS; COLOR; FIREFLY LUCIFERIN; LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84983800173     PISSN: 15680266     EISSN: 18734294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1568026616666160413135055     Document Type: Article

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