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    Near-Infrared Bioluminescence Imaging of Animal Cells with Through-Bond Energy Transfer Cassette

    is the most general substrate for marine . The present protocol introduces a near-infrared (NIR ) bioluminescence (BL) of mammalian cells with a cyanine-5 (Cy5) dye-conjugated CTZ . This unique Cy5-conjuga...

    Masahiro Abe, Ryo Nishihara, Sung-Bae Kim, Koji Suzuki in Live Cell Imaging (2021)

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    Highly Bright NIR-BRET System for Imaging Molecular Events in Live Cells

    The present protocol demonstrates a novel mammalian cell imaging platform exerting a bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) system. This platform achieves a ~300 nm blue-to-near infrared shift of the...

    Ryo Nishihara, Koji Suzuki, Sung-Bae Kim, Ramasamy Paulmurugan in Live Cell Imaging (2021)

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    Ligand-Activatable BRET9 Probes for Imaging Molecular Events in Living Mammalian Cells

    Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) is a commonly used assay system for studying protein-protein interactions. The present protocol introduces a conceptually unique ligand-activatable BRET system ...

    Sung-Bae Kim, Rika Fujii, Ramasamy Paulmurugan in Live Cell Imaging (2021)

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    A New Lineage of Artificial Luciferases for Mammalian Cell Imaging

    The present protocol introduces a new lineage of artificial luciferases (ALucs) with unique optical properties for mammalian cell imaging. The primary candidate sequence was first created with a sequence logo ...

    Sung-Bae Kim, Rika Fujii in Live Cell Imaging (2021)

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    Azide- and Dye-Conjugated Coelenterazine Analogues for Imaging Mammalian Cells

    Coelenterazine (CTZ) is a common substrate to most marine luciferases and photoproteins. The present protocol introduces mammalian cell imaging with nine novel dye- and azide-conjugated CTZ analogues, which we...

    Ryo Nishihara, Emi Hoshino, Yoshiki Kakudate, Koji Suzuki in Live Cell Imaging (2021)

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    Luciferase-Specific Coelenterazine Analogues for Optical Cross Talk-Free Bioassays

    Spectral overlaps in fluorescence (FL) and bioluminescence (BL) commonly cause optical cross talks. The present protocol introduces five different lineages of coelenterazine (CTZ) analogues, which have selecti...

    Ryo Nishihara, Masahiro Abe, Koji Suzuki, Sung-Bae Kim in Live Cell Imaging (2021)