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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Luminescent Proteins > Aequorin

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Aequorin  

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Entry terms

  • Aequorine

Scope note

  • A photoprotein isolated from the bioluminescent jellyfish Aequorea. It emits visible light by an intramolecular reaction when a trace amount of calcium ion is added. The light-emitting moiety in the bioluminescence reaction is believed to be 2-amino-3-benzyl-5-(p-hydroxyphenyl)pyrazine (AF-350).

History note

  • 91(75); was see under LUMINESCENT PROTEINS 1979-90; was see under PROTEINS 1975-78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000331

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