Luciferase activity of the intracellular microcrystal of the firefly squid, Watasenia scintillans

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2735-2738

  Hamanaka, Toshiaki ^a,f   Michinomae, Masanao ^b   Seidou, Masatsugu ^c   Miura, Keiko ^d   Inoue, Katsuaki ^d,g   Kito, Yuji ^e  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AICHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e TYK Laboratory for Photobiology   (Japan)

^f Harwell Science and Innovation Campus ^*  (Japan)

^g DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Firefly squid; Intracellular microcrystal; Luciferase; X ray powder diffraction

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; LUCIFERIN; MAGNESIUM ION; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM LIGHT ORGAN; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIREFLY; ILLUMINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR MICROCRYSTAL; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTON EMITTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROD LIKE BODY; WATASENIA SCINTILLANS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; DECAPODIFORMES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FIREFLY LUCIFERIN; LUCIFERASES; MAGNESIUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OXYGEN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CEPHALOPODA; WATASENIA SCINTILLANS;

EID: 80052271981     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.07.033     Document Type: Article

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