TY  - CHAP
AU  - Ramasamy Paulmurugan
ED  - David Lapota
Y1  - 2012-02-01
PY  - 2012
T1  - Bioluminescent Proteins: High Sensitive Optical Reporters for Imaging Protein-Protein Interactions and Protein Foldings in Living Animals
N2  - We now find ourselves utilizing luciferase - luciferin proteins, ATP, genes and the whole complex of these interactions to observe and follow the progress or inhibition of tumors in animal models by measuring bioluminescence intensity, spatially and temporally using highly sophisticated camera systems. This book describes applications in preclinical oncology research by bioluminescence imaging (BLI) with a variety of applications. Chapters describe current methodologies for rapid detection of contaminants using the Milliflex system, and the use of bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) technology for monitoring physical interactions between proteins in living cells. Others are using bioluminescent proteins for high sensitive optical reporters imaging in living animals, developing pH-tolerant luciferase for brighter in vivo imaging, and oscillation characteristics in bacterial bioluminescence. The book also contains descriptions of the long-term seasonal characteristics of oceanic bioluminescence and the responsible planktonic species producing bioluminescence. Such studies are few and rare.
BT  - Bioluminescence
SP  - Ch. 3
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/35570
DO  - 10.5772/35570
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-23
ER  -