Patent ID: 7986824
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: G01N,G02B

Abstract:
1. A predetermined site luminescence measuring method for measuring the luminescence from a live sample into which a fusion gene is introduced, the fusion gene being obtained by fusing a targeting base sequence that directs a photoprotein to a predetermined site in the sample and a luminescence-related gene that expresses the photoprotein, in order to obtain the amount of luminescence from the predetermined site, wherein the fusion gene is obtained by further fusing a fluorescence-related gene that expresses a fluorescence protein with the targeting base sequence, and the luminescence-related gene, the method comprising: a fluorescent image capturing step of capturing a fluorescent image of the sample into which the fusion gene is introduced, the fluorescent image capturing step performed by a fluorescent image acquiring unit; a determining step of determining whether the photoprotein is localized at the predetermined site based on the fluorescent image captured at the fluorescent image capturing step, the determining step performed by a determining unit; and a luminescence measuring step of measuring the luminescence from the sample when the localization is determined as a result of the determining step, the luminescence measuring step performed by a luminescence measuring unit.