Canary Proteins™

Canary Proteins™

In the late 1980's Professor Campbell invented a new application of bioluminescence, based on genetic engineering of DNA he had isolated from luminous jelly-fish, glow-worms and fireflies. There were two principle components to this technology. First, the ability to engineer reactive sites into bioluminescent proteins so that they changed colour when they reacted with a substance to be measured, either inside a live cell or in a biological or clinical sample. Secondly, the ability to engineer address labels on to these proteins so that they could be targeted to specific sites within the cell - cytosol, nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, plasma membrane. Professor Campbell named the genetically proteins that could change colour Rainbow proteins. These are now called Canary Proteins™

There are three types, based on how Nature has evolved to emit light of different colours covering the complete rainbow. AKRainbow now has control of the intellectual property of this technology.

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