Coelenterazine is a luciferin, a molecule that emits light after reaction with oxygen, found in many aquatic organisms across eight phyla. It is the substrate...
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prosthetic group coelenterazine, the luciferin. This is to say, apoaequorin is the enzyme produced in the photocytes of the animal, and coelenterazine is the substrate...
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Luciferin (section Coelenterazine)
mononucleotide and a fatty aldehyde found in bioluminescent bacteria. Coelenterazine is found in radiolarians, ctenophores, cnidarians, squid, brittle stars...
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triphosphate (ATP). In evolution, luciferins vary little: one in particular, coelenterazine, is found in 11 different animal phyla, though in some of these, the...
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bioluminescent enzyme found in Renilla reniformis, belonging to a group of coelenterazine luciferases. Of this group of enzymes, the luciferase from Renilla reniformis...
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fluorescent protein (GFP). Calcium triggers release of the luciferin (coelenterazine) from the luciferin binding protein. The substrate is then available...
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apoaequorin, the luminophore coelenterazine, and molecular oxygen. These proteins function together. As calcium binds to coelenterazine, (a bioluminescent molecule...
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chemiluminescence. Unlike luminol, coelenterazine does not require any catalyst to trigger luminescence. Analogs of coelenterazine such as CLA (2-methyl-6-phenyl-3...
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patented substrate for NanoLuc called furimazine, though other valuables coelenterazine substrates for NanoLuc have also been published. A split-protein version...
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its prosthetic group coelenterazine is consumed irreversibly when emits light, thus requires continuous addition of coelenterazine into the media. To overcome...
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