Monitoring Opioid Receptor Interaction in Living Cells by Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET).

Monica Baiula

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2021

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Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET ) is a natural phenomenon that has been successfully applied for the study of protein-protein interactions, including opioid receptor oligomers. The discovery of opioid receptor homomers and heteromers has brought to the discovery of new functions and new way of signaling and trafficking; therefore, opioid receptor oligomers may be considered as novel drug targets. Fusing receptors of interest with Renilla luciferase and with a fluorescent protein (such as EYFP ) it is possible to study opioid receptor dimerization using BRET .

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Monica Baiula. Monitoring Opioid Receptor Interaction in Living Cells by Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET). Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2021;2201:35-43