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Fluorescent-protein biosensors: new tools for drug discovery.

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Trends Biotechnol, 16 (3): 135--140 (March 1998)
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7799(97)01166-9

Abstract

Recent improvements in target discovery and high-throughput screening have increased the pressure at key points along the drug-discovery pipeline. High-content screening was developed to ease the bottlenecks formed at the target-validation and lead-optimization points, and a new generation of reagents that report on specific molecular processes in living cells (fluorescent-protein biosensors) have been important in its development. Creative designs of fluorescent-protein biosensors have emerged and been used to measure the molecular dynamics of macromolecules, metabolites and ions. Recent applications of fluorescent-protein biosensors to biological problems have provided a foundation for their use in biotechnology.

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