Definition of Photoprotein. Meaning of Photoprotein. Synonyms of Photoprotein

- Photoproteins are a type of enzyme produced by bioluminescent organisms. They add to the function of the luciferins whose usual light-producing reaction...
- Aequorin is a calcium-activated photoprotein isolated from the hydrozoan Aequorea victoria. Its bioluminescence was studied decades before the protein...
- enzymes that produce bioluminescence, and is usually distinguished from a photoprotein. The name was first used by Raphaël Dubois who invented the words luciferin...
- products. Other cofactors may be required, such as calcium (Ca2+) for the photoprotein aequorin, or magnesium (Mg2+) ions and ATP for the firefly luciferase...
- North America. The species is best known as the source of aequorin (a photoprotein), and green fluorescent protein (GFP); two proteins involved in bioluminescence...
- by calcium activated photoproteins, similar to hydromedusae. This photoprotein is called berovin, and differs from photoproteins used by hydromedusa in...
- originates by way of a photoprotein, which differs from the photogenic molecule luciferase in firefly beetles. Motyxia's photoprotein contains a porphyrin...
- biologist. He is known for his work to clone and sequence the genes for the photoprotein aequorin and green fluorescent protein (GFP) and for his proposal to...
- may refer to molecules that are substrates for both luciferases and photoproteins. Luciferins are a class of small-molecule substrates that react with...
- cell and developmental biology. In 2002, the first example of using photoproteins from another organism for controlling a biochemical pathway was demonstrated...