Abstract
Luciferase reporter assays are sensitive and accurate tests that enable the analysis of regulatory sequences, the magnitude of transcriptional activity by transcription factors, and the discovery of gene regulatory elements and small-molecule modulators with high levels of precision. This is made possible through detection of bioluminescence produced by luciferase-coding reporters in a wide range of cellular environments. These assays are routinely used to analyze the activity of transcription factors, including the lipid-activated liver X receptor (LXR), in response to different stimuli as well as for the identification of their ligands. In this chapter we describe in detail the assays performed to investigate LXR activity in a macrophage-like cell line (RAW 267.4). These can be easily adapted to other nuclear receptors and transcription factors.
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The authors would like to thank the support of the Medical Research Council (New Investigator Grant G0801278), International Reintegration Program (Grant PIRG02-GA-2007-224867) and British Heart Foundation (PG/13/10/30000) to IPT.
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Gage, M.C., Pourcet, B., Pineda-Torra, I. (2016). Luciferase Reporter Assays to Assess Liver X Receptor Transcriptional Activity. In: Waugh, M. (eds) Lipid Signaling Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1376. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3170-5_7
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