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Flexible Measurement of Bioluminescent Reporters Using an Automated Longitudinal Luciferase Imaging Gas- and Temperature-optimized Recorder ALLIGATOR

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Published on: December 13, 2017

Using ALLIGATORs to Capture Circadian Bioluminescence.

Aiwei Zeng¹, John S O'Neill²

¹MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)

|May 24, 2022

Summary

This study presents an updated protocol for the Automated Longitudinal Luciferase Imaging Gas and Temperature-Optimized Recorder (ALLIGATOR). The ALLIGATOR system offers advanced, high-throughput cellular bioluminescence recording for circadian biology research.

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Keywords:

ALLIGATOR Bioluminescence Cellular clock biology Circadian rhythm Luciferase PERIOD2

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