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Firefly luciferase as a tool in molecular and cell biology
1Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.
Analytical Biochemistry
|November 15, 1988
Abstract:
The unique properties of firefly luciferase and the cloning of the gene for this enzyme have spawned a number of novel applications of this protein. We summarize a few of these applications including its use as a reporter gene, as a model for the study of protein import into peroxisomes, and as a component of a heterologous gene expression system.