Firefly luciferase exhibits bimodal action depending on the luciferin chirality

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 331, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 471-475

  Nakamura, Mitsuhiro ^a,b,c   Maki, Shojiro ^a   Amano, Yoshiharu ^a   Ohkita, Yutaka ^a   Niwa, Kazuki ^b   Hirano, Takashi ^a   Ohmiya, Yoshihiro ^b   Niwa, Haruki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chiral recognition; CoA ligase; D Luciferin; Enantioselective; Firefly luciferase; L Luciferin

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; LUCIFERIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 18044374474     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.03.202     Document Type: Article

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