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Luciferase
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Additional information
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Several organisms are bioluminescent, meaning that they produce light. Luciferase is one of the enzymes that catalyzes light emitting reactions in organisms.
- For additional information, see: Colored & Bioluminescent Proteins
References
- ↑ Meighen EA. Molecular biology of bacterial bioluminescence. Microbiol Rev. 1991 Mar;55(1):123-42. PMID:2030669
- ↑ Gould SJ, Subramani S. Firefly luciferase as a tool in molecular and cell biology. Anal Biochem. 1988 Nov 15;175(1):5-13. PMID:3072883
- ↑ England CG, Ehlerding EB, Cai W. NanoLuc: A Small Luciferase Is Brightening Up the Field of Bioluminescence. Bioconjug Chem. 2016 May 18;27(5):1175-1187. PMID:27045664 doi:10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.6b00112
Additional Literature
- Marques SM, Esteves da Silva JC. Firefly bioluminescence: a mechanistic approach of luciferase catalyzed reactions. IUBMB Life. 2009 Jan;61(1):6-17. PMID:18949818 doi:10.1002/iub.134
- Inouye S. Firefly luciferase: an adenylate-forming enzyme for multicatalytic functions. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2010 Feb;67(3):387-404. Epub 2009 Oct 27. PMID:19859663 doi:10.1007/s00018-009-0170-8
External Resources
- Yahoo news coverage of luciferase studies funded research for military applications
- Luciferase at Wikipedia
- Luciferase: June 2006 Molecule of the Month as part of the series of tutorials that are at the RCSB Protein Data Bank and written by David S. Goodsell
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