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luciferase
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luciferase
(loosif´rās´),
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.
We are pleased to include Promega's recombinant firefly and humanized Renilla luciferases as reporters in our product lines.
Wood and his co-workers cloned the genes for four click-beetle luciferases and inserted them into the common intestinal bacteria Escherichia coli.
 
 
 
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