Borrowed proteins in bacterial bioluminescence.

Oscillation in Bacterial Bioluminescence

Biochemistry and genetics of bacterial bioluminescence.

Bacterial light production involves enzymes-luciferase, fatty acid reductase, and flavin reductase-and substrates-reduced flavin mononucleotide and long-chain fatty aldehyde-that are specific to bioluminescence in bacteria. The bacterial genes coding for these enzymes, luxA and luxB for the subunits of luciferase; luxC, luxD, and luxE for the components of the fatty acid reductase; and luxG for...

Bacterial bioluminescence: its control and ecological significance.

INTRODUCTION ... 496 BIOCHEMI STRY 497 TAXONOMIC RELATIONSHPS OF LUMINOUS BACTERIA ................. 499 Marine Forms ............................................................. 499 Terrestrial and Freshwater Forms .......................................... 501 CONTROL OF THE SYNTHESIS AND ACTIVITY OF THE LUMINESCENT SYSTEM 501 Autoinduction ...... 501 Catabolite Repression .....................

Myristic acid stimulation of bacterial bioluminescence in "aldehyde" mutants.

The involvement of long chain aldehyde in bacterial luminescence was known both from its being required for light emission in the in vitro reaction with pure luciferase and from its ability to stimulate luminescence in vivo in a certain class of dark "aldehyde" mutants. We have found that the luminescence of some (but not all) of such aldehyde mutants is also stimulated by long chain aliphatic ...

Borrowed Children

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