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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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    generally called luciferin and luciferase, respectively. Because these are generic names, luciferins and luciferases are often distinguished by the species...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • luciferins whose usual light-producing reaction is catalyzed by the enzyme luciferase. The term photoprotein was first used to describe the unusual chemistry...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 2-monooxygenase (EC 1.13.12.13), also known as Oplophorus luciferase (referred in this article as OpLuc) is a luciferase, an enzyme, from the deep-sea shrimp Oplophorus...
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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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    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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    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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    mushroom does not glow—only the gills do so. This is due to an enzyme called luciferase, acting upon a compound called luciferin, leading to the emission of light...
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    N-terminal domain of Zophobas morio luciferase-like enzyme, inferences on the biological function and origin of oxygenase/luciferase activity". Photochemical &...
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    click-beetle (Pyrophorini) bioluminescent systems. It is the substrate of luciferase (EC 1.13.12.7), which is responsible for the characteristic yellow light...
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    specialized chemical reaction of the substrate luciferin and the enzyme luciferase. The luciferase enzyme consists of a 555-amino acid-long peptide with a molecular...
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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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    Luciferin + O 2 + ATP → Luciferase Oxyluciferin + CO 2 + AMP + PPi + light {\displaystyle {\ce {Luciferin{}+O2{}+ATP->[{\text{Luciferase...
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    emission from one of several organisms which bioluminesce, also known as luciferase enzymes. The three main sources are the North American firefly, the sea...
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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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    their existing applications. Luciferase is a generic name for an enzyme that catalyzes a light-emitting reaction. Luciferases can be found in bacteria, algae...
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