Abstract:Bioluminescence is one of the most widely used reporter systems in living cells. Luciferase encoded by
luc
gene from the firefly
Photinus pyralis
is a commonly used reporter gene that can be detected by bioluminescence and utilized in the construction of bioreporters. In a classical bioreporter, the expression of a reporter gene is controlled by a natural regulatory circuit, which in many cases consists of a regulatory protein and its corresponding promoter. In t… Show more
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