Firefly luciferin as antioxidant and light emitter: The evolution of insect bioluminescence

Luminescence

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 339-344

  Dubuisson, Marlène ^a   Marchand, Cécile ^a   Rees, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Firefly; Luciferin; Oxidative stress; Peroxynitrite

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT PROTECTION; MAMMALS; OXIDANTS; PHOSPHORESCENCE;

ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES; FIREFLY; LIGHT EMITTERS; LUCIFERIN; MAIN GROUP; MAMMALIAN CELLS; NITROSATIVE STRESS; PEROXIDATION; PEROXYNITRITES; TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS;

ANTIOXIDANTS;

ANTIOXIDANT; LINOLEIC ACID; LUCIFERIN; OXIDIZING AGENT; PEROXYNITRITE; RHODAMINE; SCAVENGER; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE; 3 MORPHOLINO SYDNONIMINE; 3-MORPHOLINO-SYDNONIMINE; DIHYDRORHODAMINE 6G; DRUG DERIVATIVE; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MOLSIDOMINE; PEROXYNITROUS ACID; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL VIABILITY; EXPOSURE; INSECT; LIGHT; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXIDATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; FIBROBLAST; FIREFLY; HUMAN; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; EVOLUTION; FIBROBLASTS; FIREFLIES; FIREFLY LUCIFERIN; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; INSECTS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MOLSIDOMINE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXYNITROUS ACID; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RHODAMINES; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

EID: 14844288937     PISSN: 15227235     EISSN: 10991271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bio.789     Document Type: Article

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