The structural origin and biological function of pH-sensitivity in firefly luciferases†
Abstract
Firefly luciferases are called pH-sensitive because their bioluminescence
- This article is part of the themed collection: Bioluminescence
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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR), Campus de Sorocaba, Av. Darcí Dafferner, 200, Alto da Boa Vista, Sorocaba, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
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b Laboratório de Biotecnologia e Bioluminescência, Universidade de Sorocaba, Sorocaba (UNISO), SP, Brazil
c Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
d Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
e Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
f Department of Photobiology, Hokkaido Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
Firefly luciferases are called pH-sensitive because their bioluminescence
V. R. Viviani, F. G. C. Arnoldi, A. J. S. Neto, T. L. Oehlmeyer, E. J. H. Bechara and Y. Ohmiya, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2008, 7, 159 DOI: 10.1039/B714392C
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