Bioluminescence : chemical principles and methods / Osamu Shimomura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shimomura, Osamu, 1928-2018.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioluminescence.

Chemiluminescence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book, written by a distinguished scientist in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of the biochemical aspects of all luminous organisms currently known. It is the first and only book that provides chemical information on all known bioluminescence systems, in a single volume. Some 35 different types of bioluminescence organisms are discussed in 10 chapters. The descriptions include: a history of the discovery of luminescence substances such as luciferins, luciferases and photoproteins; the process of research, explaining how luminescent substances have been isolated and purified; t

Contents:

Preface; Contents; Abbreviations Symbols and Definitions; Introduction; The Beginning of the Chemical Study of Bioluminescence; Luciferin; Photoprotein; Chemical Studies on Bioluminescence in the Last One Hundred Years; Chemical Study of Bioluminescence in the Future; The Contents of this Book; 1 The Fireflies and Luminous Insects; 1.1 The Fireflies; 1.1.1 An Overview of the Firefly Luminescence Reaction; 1.1.2 Firefly Luciferin and Oxyluciferin; 1.1.3 Firefly Luciferase; 1.1.4 Assays of Luciferase Activity ATP and Luciferin; 1.1.5 General Characteristics of the Bioluminescence of Fireflies

1.1.6 Mechanisms of the Bioluminescence1.1.7 Light Emitters in the Firefly Luminescence System; 1.1.8 A Note on the Dioxetanone Pathway and the 18O-incorporation Experiment; 1.2 Phengodidae and Elateroidae; 1.2.1 Phengodidae; 1.2.2 Elateridae; 1.3 Diptera; 1.3.1 The Glow-worm Arachnocampa; 1.3.2 The American Glow-worm Orfelia; 2 Luminous Bacteria; 2.1 Factors Required for Bioluminescence; 2.2 Bacterial Luciferase; 2.3 Long-chain Aldehyde; 2.4 Mechanism of Luminescence Reaction; 2.5 Assay of Luciferase Activity (Hastings et al., 1978; Baldwin et al., 1986)

2.6 Quantum Yield of Long-chain Aldehydes2.7 In vivo Luminescence of Luminous Bacteria; 3 The Ostracod Cypridina (Vargula) and Other Luminous Crustaceans; 3.1 The Ostracod Cypridina; 3.1.1 Overview of Ostracoda; 3.1.2 Cypridina hilgendorfii Muller; 3.1.3 Research on Cypridina Luminescence before 1955; 3.1.4 Purification and Crystallization of Cypridina Luciferin; 3.1.5 Properties of Cypridina Luciferin; 3.1.6 Oxyluciferin and Etioluciferin; 3.1.7 Purification and Molecular Properties of Cypridina Luciferase; 3.1.8 Luciferin-luciferase Luminescence Reaction; 3.1.9 Quantum Yield

3.2 Euphausiids Euphausia pacifica and Meganyctiphanes norvegica3.2.1 Involvement of the Fluorescent Compound F and Protein P; 3.2.2 Fluorescent Compound F; 3.2.3 Protein P; 3.2.4 Luminescence Reaction; 3.3 The Decapod Shrimp Oplophorus gracilirostris; 3.3.1 Oplophorus Luciferase; 3.3.2 Coelenterazine-luciferase Reaction; 3.4 Copepoda; 4 The Jellyfish Aequorea and Other Luminous Coelenterates; 4.1 The Hydrozoan Medusa Aequorea aequorea; 4.1.1 History of the Biochemical Study of Aequorea Bioluminescence; 4.1.2 Extraction and Purification of Aequorin; 4.1.3 Properties of Aequorin

4.1.4 Discovery of the Coelenterazine Moiety in Aequorin4.1.5 Regeneration of Aequorin from Apoaequorin; 4.1.6 Recombinant Aequorin; 4.1.7 Semisynthetic Aequorins; 4.1.8 The In Vivo Luminescence of Aequorea; 4.2 The Hydroid Obelia (Hydrozoan); 4.2.1 Natural Obelins; 4.2.2 Recombinant Obelin; 4.3 The Hydrozoan Medusa Phialidium gregarium; 4.4 Other Bioluminescent Hydrozoans; 4.5 The Scyphozoans Pelagia and Periphylla; 4.5.1 Pelagia noctiluca; 4.5.2 Periphylla periphylla; 4.6 The Anthozoan Renilla (Sea Pansy); 4.7 Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP); 4.8 The Ctenophores; 5 The Coelenterazines

5.1 Discovery of Coelenterazine

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-454) and index.

ISBN:

9786611924898

9781281924896

128192489X

9789812773647

9812773649

OCLC:

854972377