One reporter for in-cell activity profiling of majority of protein kinase oncogenes.

In-cell profiling enables the evaluation of receptor tyrosine activity in a complex environment of regulatory networks that affect signal initiation, propagation and feedback. We used FGF-receptor signaling to identify as a locus that strongly responds to the activation of a majority of the recognized protein kinase oncogenes, including 30 receptor tyrosine kinases and 154 of their disease-associated mutants. The promoter was engineered to enhance -activation capacity and optimized for simple screening assays with luciferase or fluorescent reporters.