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Evaluation of bioluminescence-based assays of anti-malarial drug activity

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Transgenic Plasmodium falciparum expressing luciferase offers an attractive bioluminescence-based assay platform for the investigation of the pharmacological properties of anti-malarial drugs. Here a side-by-side comparison of bioluminescence and fluorescence-based assays, utilizing a luciferase reporter cassette that confers a strong temporal pattern of luciferase expression during the S-phase of intraerythrocytic development, is reported.

Acceptance Date Feb 3, 2013
Publication Date Feb 8, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Malaria Journal
Publisher Springer Verlag
Pages 58 - ?
DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-58
Keywords luciferase, sybr green I, antimalarial drug, relative rate of kill, malaria
Publisher URL http://www.malariajournal.com/content/12/1/58

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