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luciferase |
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luciferase (loosif´ n an enzyme present in certain luminous organisms that act to bring about the oxidation of luciferins; energy produced in the process is liberated as bioluminescence. |
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Perhaps the main advance needed to bring these grand notions to fruition is the development of luciferases that stimulate the emission of a redder light. Wood and his co-workers cloned the genes for four click-beetle luciferases and inserted them into the common intestinal bacteria Escherichia coli. The luciferases and photoproteins use coelenterazine and its derivatives as substrate and are sodium dependent. |
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