Bioluminescence chemistry of fireworm Odontosyllis

Chemistry of Bioluminescence

THE STRUCTURE OF THE LUCIFERINS With their fascinating phenomena we recognize many bioluminescent organisms, such as firefly, luminous bacteria, luminous fungi, and luminous deep-sea fish. Some eighty years ago, Dubois found that the bioluminescence of the luminescent beetle Pyrophorus is due to the luciferin—luciferase reaction. Bioluminescence1—9 was observed when a hot aqueous extract ("luci...

Bioluminescence.

Bioluminescence

Kahle and Umbers introduce the ways by which organisms emit light though chemical reactions.

Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence is a two-person improvised performance to be considered for either concert or club performance. The performance is improvised and of variable length, and consists of a vocalist (Lesley Flanigan) and a laptop performer (R. Luke DuBois). All the material generated from the laptop is taken from the vocalist during that performance (no pre-sampling or synthesis) and the laptop perfo...

Comparison of Static and Microfluidic Protease Assays Using Modified Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer Chemistry

BACKGROUND Fluorescence and bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (F/BRET) are two forms of Förster resonance energy transfer, which can be used for optical transduction of biosensors. BRET has several advantages over fluorescence-based technologies because it does not require an external light source. There would be benefits in combining BRET transduction with microfluidics but the low lum...