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Publication — IRIC

Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) Imaging in Living Cells: Image Acquisition and Quantification.

Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) is an energy transfer phenomenon from a luciferase donor to a fluorescence acceptor and serves as an indicator of protein-protein interaction or protein proximity. BRET imaging is a powerful tool in the investigation of signaling proteins because it enables spatial analysis of such protein interactions. Here, we describe a method exerting high-resolution BRET imaging by combining bright-light output luciferases, such as NanoLuc , photon-counting EM-CCD, and unique algorithms for image correction and denoising.

Publication date
May 29, 2021
Principal Investigators
Kobayashi H, Bouvier M
PubMed reference
Methods Mol Biol 2021;2274:305-314
PubMed ID
34050482
Affiliation
Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.