The effective role of positive charge saturation in bioluminescence color and thermostability of firefly luciferase

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 847-855

  Said Alipour, Bagher ^a,b   Hosseinkhani, Saman ^a   Ardestani, Sussan K ^b   Moradi, Ali ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RED LIGHT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

COLEOPTERA; LAMPYRIS TURKESTANICUS; PHRIXOTHRIX;

EID: 67449122404     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b901938c     Document Type: Article

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