Quantum yields and kinetics of the firefly bioluminescence reaction of beetle luciferases

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1046-1049

  Niwa, Kazuki ^a   Ichino, Yoshiro ^a   Kumata, Shiho ^b   Nakajima, Yoshihiro ^b   Hiraishi, Yoshihiro ^c   Kato, Dai Ichiro ^c   Viviani, Vadim R ^d   Ohmiya, Yoshihiro ^b  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIREFLY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; KINETICS; LUMINESCENCE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIREFLIES; GENETIC VECTORS; KINETICS; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE;

COLEOPTERA; ELATERIDAE; PYREARINUS TERMITILLUMINANS; PYROCOELIA MIYAKO;

EID: 77956463913     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2010.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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