|
Firefly gene sets tobacco plants aglow. (glowing genetic tag uses firefly enzyme luciferase)
From:
Science News
| Date:
November 15, 1986| Author:
Monastersky, Richard
| COPYRIGHT 1986 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
|
Firefly gene sets tobacco plants aglow
Live tobacco plants that glow before they're lit may sound like a promotion for a cigarette company, but they actually are a demonstration of a powerful new tool in the field of genetics. Using the gene responsbile for the firefly's glow scientists from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have developed a glowing genetic tag.
Until now, the standard procedure for marking and monitoring gene activity has involv...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
Genomic structure and phylogenetic analysis of the luciferase gene of the firefly, Luciola lateralis (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
European Journal of Entomology
; Key words. Firefly, Luciola lateralis, luciferase gene, genomic structure, phylogenetic analysis Abstract. The complete nucleotide sequence and the exon-intron structure of the luciferase gene of the firefly, Luciola lateralis (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) is described. The luciferase gene of the L.
|
|
Gene traps: Tools for plant develoopment and genomics
Plant Cell
; INTRODUCTION Classical genetic approaches to gene identification rely on disruption of a gene leading to a recognizable phenotype. This approach continues to be an extremely successful one, yielding mutations that result in overt phenotypes reflecting the function of the corresponding gene. Not all
|
|
Making rodents glow in the dark
USA Today
; Borrowing glow-in-the-dark chemistry from fireflies, researchers have developed a technique enabling them to observe gene activation as it occurs in a living mammal. In a series of experiments performed in mice and rats, they used ultrasensitive cameras to detect light emitted when certain genes
|
|
Using mammalian competent cells for evaluation of IRES sequences: in this work, 8-fold more frozen cells (than passaged cells) were transfected.(Biochemicals & Kits)
Bioscience Technology
; Expression of multiple recombinant proteins in mammalian cells from a single mRNA is technically more difficult than expression in bacterial cells due to the different nature by which translational initiation occurs. In bacteria, a single mRNA molecule may encode multiple open reading frames with
|
|
A New Acycloguanosine-Specific Supermutant of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Thymidine Kinase Suitable for PET Imaging and Suicide Gene Therapy for Potential Use in Patients Treated with Pyrimidine-Based Cytotoxic Drugs
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
; The herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (HSV1-tk) gene is widely used as a suicide gene in combination with ganciclovir (GCV) and as a nuclear imaging reporter gene with an appropriate reporter probe. Wild-type HSV1-tk recognizes a variety of pyrimidine and acycloguanosine nucleoside
|
