Creation of a Thermostable Firefly Luciferase with pH-insensitive Luminescent Color

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 333-338

  Kitayama, Atsushi ^a,c   Yoshizaki, Hiroaki ^a   Ohmiya, Yoshihiro ^b   Ueda, Hiroshi ^a   Nagamune, Teruyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; DNA;

ARTICLE; COLOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LUMINESCENCE; MUTATION; PH; THERMOSTABILITY; ANIMAL; BEETLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

HOTARIA PARVULA; PHOTINUS; PHOTINUS PYRALIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; DNA; ENZYME STABILITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOTOBIOLOGY;

EID: 0038654305     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)077<0333:COATFL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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