Luciferin

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albumin

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• Luciferin is (1) either a natural proteose not attacked by trypsin, or (2) if attacked by trypsin, its decomposition products (presumably amino-acids) still contain the group oxidizable with light production, or (3) it is not a protein at all.
• When luciferin is combined with ATP, or the fuel, and oxygen, which adds even more fuel, the luciferin is transformed into a very-high-energy chemical.
• Coelenterate luciferin is the substrate for a number of marine bioluminescent reactions, including those from Renilla, Aequorea and Watesenia.
• The luciferin is the basic substrate of the reaction and produces the light.
• This luciferin is an imidazolpyrazine consisting of modified molecules of two tyro- sines and a phenylalanine.

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