| abstract |
The invention relates to luminescent chimeric proteins which include a photoprotein and a second protein which may be light- or heavy-chain immunoglobulin, an antigenic peptide, avidin, streptavidin, or protein A. The invention also relates to chimeric protein genes, plasmids containing said gene, and hosts transformed with said plasmid. The invention also relates to a range of highly sensitive immunoassays which use the chimeric proteins. |