Bioluminescence of beetle luciferases with 6′-Amino-D-luciferin analogues reveals excited keto-oxyluciferin as the emitter and phenolate/luciferin binding site interactions modulate bioluminescence colors

Biochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 5208-5220

  Viviani, Vadim R ^a   Neves, Deimison Rodrigues ^a   Amaral, Danilo Trabuco ^a   Prado, Rogilene A ^a   Matsuhashi, Takuto ^b   Hirano, Takashi ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; DOPPLER EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NAPHTHALENE; PHOSPHORESCENCE;

BIOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; FLUORESCENCE PROBING; MICROENVIRONMENTS; POLAR ENVIRONMENTS; SITE INTERACTION; STRONG INTERACTION; STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

6' AMINO DEXTRO LUCIFERIN; HYDROXYL GROUP; KETO OXYLUCIFERIN; LUCIFERASE; LUCIFERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLOR; CONFORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIREFLY; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PH; PHRIXOTRIX HIRTUS; PHRIXOTRIX VIVIANII; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREARINUS TERMITILLUMINANS; ZOPHOBAS MORIO;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BINDING SITES; COLOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FIREFLY LUCIFERIN; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHENOLS; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84906272530     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi500160m     Document Type: Article

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