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- Aequorin is a calcium-activated photoprotein isolated from the hydrozoan Aequorea victoria. Its bioluminescence was studied decades before the protein...
- west coast of North America. The species is best known as the source of aequorin (a photoprotein), and green fluorescent protein (GFP); two proteins involved...
- protein aequorin from thousands of jellyfish until they gathered enough for a full analysis of the protein. It was through the study of aequorin that Shimomura...
- cofactors may be required, such as calcium (Ca2+) for the photoprotein aequorin, or magnesium (Mg2+) ions and ATP for the firefly luciferase. Generically...
- the 1960s and 1970s, GFP, along with the separate luminescent protein aequorin (an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of luciferin, releasing light)...
- domain – InterPro: IPR000261 Aequorin is a calcium binding protein (CaBP) isolated from the cnidarian Aequorea victoria. Aequorin belongs to the EF-hand family...
- proportional to the amount of the photoprotein. For example, the photoprotein aequorin produces a flash of light when luciferin and calcium are added, rather...
- occurs when a secondary substrate is added to the bio****ay (luxAB, Luc, and aequorin). For other bioreporters, the signal must be activated by an external light...
- known for his work to clone and sequence the genes for the photoprotein aequorin and green fluorescent protein (GFP) and for his proposal to use GFP as...
- luciferase (Rluc), Gaussia luciferase (Gluc), and photoproteins, including aequorin, and obelin. All these proteins catalyze the oxidation of this substance...