Firefly luciferase is the light-emitting enzyme responsible for the bioluminescence of fireflies and click beetles. The enzyme catalyses the oxidation...

different luciferases in a variety of light-emitting reactions. The majority of studied luciferases have been found in animals, including fireflies, and many...

Firefly luciferase is used in forensics, and the enzyme has medical uses – in particular, for detecting the presence of ATP or magnesium. Fireflies produce...

is the substrate of luciferase (EC 1.13.12.7), which is responsible for the characteristic yellow light emission from many firefly species. As with all...

the firefly (Photinus pyralis). The Biological Bulletin, 375-393 Keller, G.A.; Gould, S.; Deluca, M.; Subramani, S. (1987). "Firefly luciferase is targeted...

luciferase, respectively. Because these are generic names, luciferins and luciferases are often distinguished by the species or group, e.g. firefly luciferin...

of toxicity. Firefly luciferase catalyzes a reaction that produces visible light in the 550 to 575 nm range. A click-beetle luciferase is also available...

organisms which bioluminesce, also known as luciferase enzymes. The three main sources are the North American firefly, the sea pansy (and related marine organisms)...

detection using the firefly luciferase enzyme. A mixture of three enzymes (DNA polymerase, ATP sulfurylase and firefly luciferase) and a nucleotide (dNTP)...

Photinini are a large tribe of fireflies in the subfamily Lampyrinae. Photinus pyralis is famous in biotechnology for its luciferase gene. This is sometimes...

used morphological term “microbodies”. Later, it was described that firefly luciferase is targeted to peroxisomes in mammalian cells, allowing the discovery...

and the necessary enzyme luciferase are located in a crystalline structure within rod-like bodies in their photophores. Firefly squid are the only cephalopods...

followed by 3 days of constant light (from 96h). Their genomes carry firefly luciferase reporter genes driven by the promoter sequences of clock genes. The...

of firefly has been determined to be due to differences in the amino acid sequences of the luciferases expressed in their photocytes. Two luciferase genes...

the most effective buffer among the ten tested for ATP assays using firefly luciferase. Tricine has also been found to be an effective scavenger of hydroxyl...

research that led to the discovery of this consensus observed that when firefly luciferase was expressed in cultured insect cells it was targeted to the peroxisome...

"Establishment of a transient transfection system and expression of firefly luciferase in Entamoeba invadens". Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 183...

and chemical biology. Because the reporter enzymes themselves (e.g. firefly luciferase) can be direct targets of small molecules and confound the interpretation...

activity (proof-reading) and luminescence real-time detection using the firefly luciferase. All the key concepts of sequencing by synthesis were introduced,...

first purified firefly luciferin, which gives off light after being combined with ATP, magnesium ion, oxygen, and firefly luciferase. In 1956, he switched...

viability of cells using the assessment of ATP and a method known as "firefly luciferase". Sodium-potassium ratio: Another kind of assay practices the examination...

evolution. Firefly luciferin is the luciferin found in many Lampyridae species, such as P. pyralis. It is the substrate of beetle luciferases (EC 1.13.12...

biological target of ataluren, it was discovered to bind and stabilize firefly luciferase, thus explaining the mechanism by which it created a false positive...

forward genetic screen in which he linked a bioluminescent reporter, firefly (luciferase), to expression of CAB (chlorophyll-a,b binding protein—see Light-harvesting...

Fan, F.; et al. (2008). "Novel Genetically Encoded Biosensors Using Firefly Luciferase". ACS Chem. Biol. 3 (6): 346–51. doi:10.1021/cb8000414. PMID 18570354...

produced through its reaction with the naturally occurring enzyme firefly luciferase using a luminometer. The amount of light produced is directly proportional...

'glows' upon activation of the p16INK4a promoter due to insertion of firefly luciferase in place of the endogenous gene. Use of this system revealed the activation...

"Kinetics of regulated protein-protein interactions revealed with firefly luciferase complementation imaging in cells and living animals". Proceedings...

into eukaryotic cells. This process has been performed using the firefly luciferase gene to produce glowing plants. This luminescence has been a useful...

his use of luciferase reporters for the purpose of studying plant circadian biology. Millar began experimenting with the firefly luciferase reporter gene...