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Glowing jellyfish, luminescence and a molecule called coelenterazine
1School of Applied Chemistry, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, UK KT1 2EE. keith.jones@kingston.ac.uk
Trends in Biotechnology
|November 11, 1999
Abstract:
Luminescence has assumed an important role in analytical biochemistry and molecular biology as an extremely sensitive method for determining the concentration of specific ions and molecules. The luminescent system of the jellyfish Aequorea victoria consists of the photoprotein aequorin, which contains the molecule coelenterazine as a prosthetic group and shows considerable potential in this area.