What is Lucia luciferase?
InvivoGen’s Lucia luciferase is a completely novel and optimized luciferase with strong bioluminescent activity. It is expressed by a synthetic gene designed on natural secreted luciferase genes from marine copepods.
How do you test for luciferase activity?
To measure luciferase activity of the cell lysates, you will need a multiwell plate or a tube containing cell lysates and a luminometer. This apparatus detects the photon emission produced from the luciferase reaction and the unit of measurement comes out as relative light units (RLU).
What is the purpose of a dual luciferase assay?
Allows study of weak promoters, low-level expression/regulation and expression in cells that transfect poorly.
What kind of light detects luciferase?
Therefore, although bioluminescence emitted from deep within an experimental animal can be detected with a sensitive detection system, luciferases that emit light at wavelengths >600 nm have the greatest sensitivity for in vivo imaging applications (2).
Who named luciferase?
Raphaël Dubois
Luciferase is a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes that produce bioluminescence, and is usually distinguished from a photoprotein. The name was first used by Raphaël Dubois who invented the words luciferin and luciferase, for the substrate and enzyme, respectively.
When was luciferase discovered?
While DuBois discovered the reaction between luciferin and luciferase in 1885, it was not until the late 1940s when the luciferase protein was first extracted and purified firefly lanterns by Drs. Green and McElroy. Using this process, they isolated the enzyme and determined its conformational structure.
Why was luciferase created?
Luciferase is a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes that produce bioluminescence, and is usually distinguished from a photoprotein. The name was first used by Raphaël Dubois who invented the words luciferin and luciferase, for the substrate and enzyme, respectively….Luciferase.
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