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Photoproteins are a type of
enzyme produced by
bioluminescent organisms. They add to the
function of the
luciferins whose usual light-producing reaction...
- may
refer to
molecules that are
substrates for both
luciferases and
photoproteins.
Luciferins are a
class of small-molecule
substrates that
react with...
- ZJ, Lee J, Rose J, Wang BC (2005). "All
three Ca2+-binding
loops of
photoproteins bind
calcium ions: the
crystal structures of calcium-loaded apo-aequorin...
- to
recombine with aequorin, in
preparation for a
subsequent flash.
Photoproteins are thus enzymes, but with
unusual reaction kinetics. Furthermore, some...
- cell and
developmental biology. In 2002, the
first example of
using photoproteins from
another organism for
controlling a
biochemical pathway was demonstrated...
- the
large and
abundant hydromedusa Aequorea victoria,
while studying photoproteins that
cause bioluminescence in this species.
Three decades later, Douglas...
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Renilla reniformis luciferase (Rluc),
Gaussia luciferase (Gluc), and
photoproteins,
including aequorin, and obelin. All
these proteins catalyze the oxidation...
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North America. The
species is best
known as the
source of
aequorin (a
photoprotein), and
green fluorescent protein (GFP); two
proteins involved in bioluminescence...
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bioluminescence is
caused by the
activation of calcium-activated
proteins named photoproteins in
cells called photocytes,
which are
often confined to the meridional...
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enzymes that
produce bioluminescence, and is
usually distinguished from a
photoprotein. The name was
first used by Raphaël
Dubois who
invented the
words luciferin...
