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    Luciferase is a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes that produce bioluminescence, and is usually distinguished from a photoprotein. The name...
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    Firefly luciferase is the light-emitting enzyme responsible for the bioluminescence of fireflies and click beetles. The enzyme catalyses the oxidation...
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    Dinoflagellate luciferase (EC 1.13.12.18, Gonyaulax luciferase) is a specific luciferase, an enzyme with systematic name dinoflagellate-luciferin:oxygen...
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    called luciferin and an enzyme, called luciferase. Because these are generic names, luciferins and luciferases are often distinguished by the species...
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    is highly efficient, by oxidation of luciferin catalyzed by enzymes (luciferases) in the presence of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and oxygen, producing...
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    2-monooxygenase, Renilla luciferase, or RLuc, is a bioluminescent enzyme found in Renilla reniformis, belonging to a group of coelenterazine luciferases. Of this group...
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    fungi present in decaying wood. The bluish-green glow is attributed to a luciferase, an oxidative enzyme, which emits light as it reacts with a luciferin...
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    transport. Enzymes are also involved in more exotic functions, such as luciferase generating light in fireflies. Viruses can also contain enzymes for infecting...
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    express it to glow green under blue or ultraviolet light, the enzyme luciferase, which catalyzes a reaction with luciferin to produce light, and the red...
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    followed by 3 days of constant light (from 96h). Their genomes carry firefly luciferase reporter genes driven by the promoter sequences of clock genes. The signals...
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  • Robinson falsely tweeted that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine contained luciferase "so that you can be tracked." This echoed earlier false social media claims...
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    both luciferases and photoproteins. Luciferins are a class of small-molecule substrates that react with oxygen in the presence of a luciferase (an enzyme)...
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  • called 'Light Bearer', as the Latin word lucifer meant "light-bringing" Luciferase, a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes used in bioluminescence...
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    specialized light organs adapted towards counter-illumination, but obtains the luciferase enzyme within these organs from bioluminescent ostracods, including Cypridina...
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    production. The light-producing enzyme is luciferase, and is found within cells of the lantern. Luciferase requires oxygen, luciferin and adenosine triphosphate...
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    light-emitting organs, usually on a female firefly's lower abdomen. The enzyme luciferase acts on luciferin, in the presence of magnesium ions, ATP, and oxygen...
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    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 a...
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  • produced through its reaction with the naturally occurring firefly enzyme luciferase using a luminometer. The amount of light produced is directly proportional...
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    while the pair on their head can glow red; this is due to different luciferases in their bodies, as the reaction substrate, called luciferin, is the...
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  • bioluminescence imaging when SM-102 containing luciferase-encoding mRNA is used for in-vivo luciferase expression in animal models. The preparation of...
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  • detection using the firefly luciferase enzyme. A mixture of three enzymes (DNA polymerase, ATP sulfurylase and firefly luciferase) and a nucleotide (dNTP)...
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    has been developed. This technique uses a bioluminescent luciferase (typically the luciferase from Renilla reniformis) rather than CFP to produce an initial...
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    enzyme luciferase and its regulatory gene, lux, have led to major advances in molecular biology, through its use as a reporter gene. Luciferase was first...
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  • infection. Another example of a visual marker useful in living cells is luciferase, an enzyme from the firefly which in the presence of luciferin, emits...
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  • include bioluminescent assays in which ATP is the limiting reagent for the luciferase reaction. Cytotoxicity can also be measured by the sulforhodamine B (SRB)...
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    most effective buffer among the ten tested for ATP assays using firefly luciferase. Tricine has also been found to be an effective scavenger of hydroxyl...
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    Luciferin + O 2 + ATP → Luciferase Oxyluciferin + CO 2 + AMP + PPi + light {\displaystyle {\ce {Luciferin{}+O2{}+ATP->[{\text{Luciferase...
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    containing a single bead and sequencing enzymes. Pyrosequencing uses luciferase to generate light for detection of the individual nucleotides added to...
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    biochemical reaction involving a distinct luciferase enzyme and a specific luciferin molecule. Notably, the luciferase enzyme in glowworms differs from that...
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  • Robinson falsely tweeted that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine contained luciferase "so that you can be tracked." This echoed earlier false social media claims...
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