I'm optimizing an assay which is use a bioluminescent protein to detect changes in DAG levels in response to exposing cells to agonists.
The assay is conducting on a monolayer of cells in a 96-well plate and we're measuring the bioluminescence emitted from the cells after exposure to certain drugs.
Could this be, in anyway, considered a whole cell-based assay? It's obviously cell-based, but I figure since we cannot detect sub-cellular localization of the BRET signal (bioluminescence), it might qualify as whole cell.
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Does this qualify as a whole cell-based assay?
Started by tdcmmon, Apr 24 2012 04:48 PM
bioluminescence BRET whole cell assay
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