Quantum yields and quantitative spectra of firefly bioluminescence with various bivalent metal ions

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 846-852

  Wang, Yu ^a   Kubota, Hidehiro ^b   Yamada, Nobuyuki ^b   Irie, Tsutomu ^b   Akiyama, Hidefumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ATTO Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CATION; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; INSECT PROTEIN; LUCIFERIN; METAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; FIREFLY; KINETICS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CATIONS; COLOR; FIREFLIES; FIREFLY LUCIFERIN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INSECT PROTEINS; KINETICS; LIGHT; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; METALS; MOLECULAR PROBES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

PHOTINUS PYRALIS;

EID: 79960559914     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2011.00931.x     Document Type: Article

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