Nanotechnology-Enhanced No-Wash Biosensors for in Vitro Diagnostics of Cancer

X Huang, Y Liu, B Yung, Y Xiong, X Chen - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
In vitro biosensors have been an integral component for early diagnosis of cancer in the
clinic. Among them, no-wash biosensors, which only depend on the simple mixing of the …

Recent developments in protease activity assays and sensors

ILH Ong, KL Yang - Analyst, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteases play a pivotal role in regulating important physiological processes from food
digestion to blood clotting. They are also important biomarkers for many diseases such as …

Target engagement and drug residence time can be observed in living cells with BRET

MB Robers, ML Dart, CC Woodroofe… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The therapeutic action of drugs is predicated on their physical engagement with cellular
targets. Here we describe a broadly applicable method using bioluminescence resonance …

Bioluminescence in analytical chemistry and in vivo imaging

A Roda, M Guardigli, E Michelini, M Mirasoli - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2009 - Elsevier
Progress in molecular biology has made available new bioanalytical tools that take
advantage of the great detectability and the simple analytical format of bioluminescence …

Bright bioluminescent BRET sensor proteins for measuring intracellular caspase activity

A den Hamer, P Dierickx, R Arts, JSPM de Vries… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
FRET-based caspase activity probes have become important tools to monitor apoptotic cell
signaling. However, their dependence on external illumination is incompatible with light …

A genetically encoded BRET-based SARS-CoV-2 Mpro protease activity sensor

AM Geethakumari, WS Ahmed, S Rasool… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The main protease, Mpro, is critical for SARS-CoV-2 replication and an appealing target for
designing anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents. Therefore, there is a demand for the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of enhanced Renilla luciferase and fluorescent protein variants on the Förster distance of Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET)

H Dacres, M Michie, J Wang, KDG Pfleger… - Biochemical and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) is an important tool for monitoring
macromolecular interactions and is useful as a transduction technique for biosensor …

Requirement of PML SUMO interacting motif for RNF4-or arsenic trioxide-induced degradation of nuclear PML isoforms

MA Maroui, S Kheddache-Atmane, F El Asmi… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
PML, the organizer of nuclear bodies (NBs), is expressed in several isoforms designated
PMLI to VII which differ in their C-terminal region due to alternative splicing of a single gene …

Experimental determination of the Forster distance for two commonly used bioluminescent resonance energy transfer pairs

H Dacres, J Wang, MM Dumancic… - Analytical chemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
Förster resonance energy transfer (RET) is the nonradiative transfer of energy from a
donor to an acceptor fluorophore. The Förster distance (R 0), being the fluorophore …

Ratiometric bioluminescent indicator for a simple and rapid measurement of thrombin activity using a smartphone

M Hattori, N Sugiura, T Wazawa, T Matsuda… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hemostasis is an essential function that repairs tissues and maintains the survival of living
organisms. To prevent diseases caused by the abnormality of the blood coagulation …