Luciferase half-life?

[jstrassw at OPAL.TUFTS.EDU]

Hello all luciferase lovers!
I will be happy to share my experience as well, once I have something to 
tell.  For now, I use RSV-Luc reporter with cloned factor sites 
upstream.  Co- expression of my activator results in luc levels of 20 
fold higher.  addition of a putative dominant-negative inhhibitor of the 
activator kills this activation, so I think Its a pretty good system. 

My half-life question is specific for cell-cycle induction of fos-Luc 
construct.  That is trickier.  If the half-live is really about 4.5 
hours, then I may stimulate cells for 6 hours to get over the  
"background" a bit.

Thqanks,

John

On 5 Oct 1996, Ferland Louis H. wrote:

> Martin, John, and all the rest of you, Netters,
> 
> The half-life of the protein is only half of the story. I am in a 
> position similar to John's i.e. I want to verify possible (expected) 
> rapid inhibition of a transfected promoter driving the LUC reporter. But, 
> to have an idea of whether LUC is useable for this type of experiment, we 
> need not only the half-life of the LUC protein, but also of its mRNA. 
> Does anyone have any data on this?
> 
> We're just going to give it a try...
> 
> - Louis
> 
> 
> On 2 Oct 1996, martin LEACH wrote:
> 
> > Date: 2 Oct 1996 20:19:26 GMT
> > From: martin LEACH <leach at bu.edu>
> > To: methods at net.bio.net
> > Subject: Re: Luciferase half-life?
> > 
> > Hi john
> > 
> > I believe the half life of luciferase is around 4.5 hours....(protein)
> > I believe this was determined in NIH fibroblasts...not sure though
> > 
> > Martin