He extracted two components from beetle abdomens, naming the substrate luciferine and the enzyme responsible for the reaction luciferase. 2 Not all bioluminescent marine organism systems can be used ...

Bioluminescence is widely used for in vivo imaging of nude mice. By conjugating luciferase protein to quantum dots, bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) turns these useful fluorophores ...

Luciferase can be attached next to the promoter ... This spectrometer directly measures quantitative luminescence spectra scaled by the absolute number of photons in the total light flux from ...

The key element of this luminescence is luciferase, an enzyme that, in the presence of oxygen, triggers a chemical reaction emitting green light. This is the same enzyme produced by fireflies.