Covering: up to the end of 2022The area of scalemic natural products is often enigmatic from
a mechanistic standpoint, since low optical purity is observed in compounds having multiple …

Abstract The European brittle star Amphiura filiformis emits blue light, via a Renilla-like
luciferase, which depends on the dietary acquisition of coelenterazine. Questions remain …

The bioluminescence reaction of firefly luciferase with D-luciferin has become an
indispensable imaging technique in modern biology and life science experiments, but the …

Genes from ancient families are sometimes involved in the convergent evolutionary origins
of similar traits, even across vast phylogenetic distances. Sulfotransferases are an ancient …

Bioluminescence is interesting, among other reasons, for the various technological
applications that have been derived from it. Among these applications, developing …

The use of bioluminescence as a reporter for physiology in neuroscience is as old as the
discovery of the calcium-dependent photon emission of aequorin. Over the years …

Bioluminescence is a type of chemiluminescence that arises from a luciferase-catalyzed
oxidation reaction of luciferin. Molecular biology and comparative genomics have recently …

Among nearly a hundred known bioluminescent systems, only about a dozen have been
studied to some extent, and the structures of only a few luciferins have been established …

Determinism and contingency shape evolutionary trajectories and the extent to which
evolution is predictable depends on the relative contribution of each. However, the causes of …

Biochemistry of bioluminescence of the marine parchment tubeworm Chaetopterus has
been in research focus for over a century; however, the results obtained by various groups …