Two forms of secreted and thermostable luciferases from the marine copepod crustacean, Metridia pacifica

Gene

Volumn 425, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 28-35

  Takenaka, Yasuhiro ^a,d   Masuda, Hiromi ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Atsushi ^c   Nishikawa, Satoshi ^a   Shigeri, Yasushi ^a   Yoshida, Yasukazu ^a   Mizuno, Hiroshi ^a,d  

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

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Luciferase; Secreted reporter assay; Thermostability; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; COELENTERAZINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LUCIFERASE; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; CRUSTACEA; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MPLUC1 GENE; MPLUC2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C FOS; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMOSTABILITY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COPEPODA; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; GAUSSIA PRINCEPS (T. SCOTT, 1894); METRIDIA LONGA; METRIDIA PACIFICA;

EID: 53149145649     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.07.041     Document Type: Article

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