Luciferin (from Latin lucifer 'light-bearer') is a generic term for the light-emitting compound found in organisms that generate bioluminescence. Luciferins...

Firefly luciferin (also known as beetle luciferin) is the luciferin, or light-emitting compound, used for the firefly (Lampyridae), railroad worm (Phengodidae)...

photoprotein. The name was first used by Raphaël Dubois who invented the words luciferin and luciferase, for the substrate and enzyme, respectively. Both words...

and an enzyme, generally called luciferin and luciferase, respectively. Because these are generic names, luciferins and luciferases are often distinguished...

luciferase, an oxidative enzyme, which emits light as it reacts with a luciferin. The phenomenon has been known since ancient times, with its source determined...

fireflies and click beetles. The enzyme catalyses the oxidation of firefly luciferin, requiring oxygen and ATP. Because of the requirement of ATP, firefly...

Vargulin, also called Cypridinid luciferin, Cypridina luciferin, or Vargula luciferin, is the luciferin found in the ostracod Cypridina hilgendorfii, also...

dinoflagellate-luciferin:oxygen 132-oxidoreductase. dinoflagellate luciferin + O2 ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } oxidized dinoflagellate luciferin + H2O...

enzymology, a Latia-luciferin monooxygenase (demethylating) (EC 1.14.99.21) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction Latia luciferin + AH2 + 2 O2 ⇌...

different for each species, they are given the generic name of luciferin. Firefly luciferin can be oxidized to produce an excited complex. Once it falls...

1,2-aminothiol and a 2-cyanobenzothiazole to make luciferin, which is fluorescent. This luciferin fluorescence can be then quantified by spectrometry...

luciferin + CO2 + hnu Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are Cypridina luciferin and O2, whereas its 3 products are oxidized Cypridina luciferin...

Renilla-luciferin 2-monooxygenase, Renilla luciferase, or RLuc, is a bioluminescent enzyme found in Renilla reniformis, belonging to a group of coelenterazine...

In enzymology, an Oplophorus-luciferin 2-monooxygenase (EC 1.13.12.13), also known as Oplophorus luciferase (referred in this article as OpLuc) is a luciferase...

thermolabile enzyme, and luciferin, which is preserved by hot water but is present in limited quantities in organisms. Luciferin combines with luciferase...

regulating the oxygen flow to the light-producing membranes that contain luciferin. This light results from a chemical reaction facilitated by the enzyme...

luciferin + CO2 + hnu Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are Watasenia luciferin and O2, whereas its 3 products are oxidized Watasenia luciferin...

different luciferases in their bodies, as the reaction substrate, called luciferin, is the same. The "railroad worm" name arises because these glowing spots...

Renilla-luciferin sulfotransferase (EC 2.8.2.10) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction 3'-phosphoadenylyl sulfate + Renilla luciferin ⇌ {\displaystyle...

chemiluminescence reaction, wherein a luciferin (a kind of pigment) is activated by a luciferase enzyme. Studies indicate that the luciferin of many krill species is...

apyrase, and with the substrates adenosine 5´ phosphosulfate (APS) and luciferin. The addition of one of the four deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs)...

blue-coloured light by a specialized chemical reaction of the substrate luciferin and the enzyme luciferase. The luciferase enzyme consists of a 555-amino...

produced by bioluminescent organisms. They add to the function of the luciferins whose usual light-producing reaction is catalyzed by the enzyme luciferase...

published the book Time, Cells, and Aging. In 1949, he first purified firefly luciferin, which gives off light after being combined with ATP, magnesium ion, oxygen...

bioluminescence. Light production is highly efficient, by oxidation of luciferin catalyzed by enzymes (luciferases) in the presence of adenosine triphosphate...

substance (called "luciferin") is reduced by a soluble reductase enzyme at the expense of NAD(P)H. In the second stage, reduced luciferin is oxidized by an...

called luciferin. The dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedra (previously called Gonyaulax polyedra) also contains a second protein called luciferin binding...

chlorophyll, bilirubin, hemocyanin, hemoglobin, myoglobin Light-emitting: luciferin Carotenoids: Hematochromes (algal pigments, mixes of carotenoids and their...

lack luciferin in their photophores. In experiments, nonluminescent fish can be made luminescent by dosing them orally or by injection with luciferin obtained...

Renilla-luciferin 2-monooxygenase EC 1.13.12.5 Cypridina-luciferin 2-monooxygenase EC 1.13.12.6 Firefly luciferase EC 1.13.12.7 Watasenia-luciferin 2-monooxygenase...