Scientists from St John's University in New York have been using the Genegnome chemiluminescent imaging system since 2003 to study the role of proteins in cell division.
The scientists, from the university's Department of Biological Sciences, have been using the system to image Western blots of human phospholipase C proteins labelled with ECL to determine their role in the regulation of cell-division processes.
The researchers are hoping this academic study will elucidate some of the mechanisms of mitosis and could lead to a better understanding of why cells die through apoptosis or why they exhibit mutations that may lead to them becoming cancerous.
'The system is helping us determine how changes in phospholipase C affect the regulation of proteins associated with chromatin structure, kinetochore activity and chromosome segregation during mitosis,' said Prof Ales Vancura from St John's.
