Mel-Juso cells expressing far-red fluorescent TurboFP635

Human malignant melanoma cells have been stably transfected to express the far-red fluorescent TurboFP635 protein. The cells show a strong red fluorescence without changing the original morphology or growth pattern. Thus, they are an ideal model to be used in preclinical tumor research to test new anti-cancer therapeutics.

The human malignant melanoma cell line Mel-Juso is a high-metastatic tumor cell line widely used in preclinical studies of new anti-tumor drug candidates.

Together with a low-metastatic human melanoma cell line such as A375, these cell lines provide a new analytic tool to study tumor growth in vivo.

References

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