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- noun A
luciferin found in manyaquatic organisms .
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Those aequorins contained various derivatives of coelenterazin instead of coelenterazine in their molecules, and were called semi-synthetic aequorins.
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The principle is that upon fusion of mitochondria, the two halves of luciferase are reconstituted to a functional protein, able to emit light in the presence of coelenterazine (Figure
BioMed Central - Latest articles Alexis Jourdain 2010
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