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Enhanced beetle luciferase for high-resolution bioluminescence imaging.
Yoshihiro Nakajima1, Tomomi Yamazaki, Shigeaki Nishii
1National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan. y-nakajima@aist.go.jp
Plos One
|April 7, 2010
Summary
Scientists developed enhanced green-emitting luciferase (ELuc) for bioluminescence imaging (BLI). ELuc offers a significantly stronger signal than firefly luciferase (FLuc), enabling high-resolution gene expression visualization.
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