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ArticleBiophysical journal2014

Type-3 BRET, an improved competition-based bioluminescence resonance energy transfer assay.

James H Felce, Rachel G Knox, Simon J Davis

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

James H FelceRadcliffe Department of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Electronic address: james.felce@rdm.ox.ac.uk.
Rachel G KnoxRadcliffe Department of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Simon J DavisRadcliffe Department of Clinical Medicine and Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Funding

Medical Research Council G0901545Wellcome Trust 098274
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We show that in conventional, competition-based bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) assays of membrane protein stoichiometry, the presence of competitors can alter tagged-protein density and artifactually reduce energy transfer efficiency. A well-characterized monomeric type I membrane protein, CD86, and two G protein-coupled receptors β2AR and mCannR2, all of which behave as dimers in these conventional assays, exhibit monomeric behavior in an improved competition-based type-3 BRET assay designed to circumvent such artifacts.

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Energy TransferAnimalsLuminescent MeasurementsMembrane ProteinsMiceReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledMembrane ProteinsReceptors, G-Protein-Coupled

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PMID24940791
PMCPMC4070276

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