Structural distinctions of fast and slow bacterial luciferases revealed by phylogenetic analysis
- 26 June 2016
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics
- Vol. 32 (20) , 3053-3057
Abstract
Motivation: Bacterial luciferases are heterodimeric enzymes that catalyze a chemical reaction, so called bioluminescence, which causes light emission in bacteria. Bioluminescence is vastly used as a reporter system in research tools and commercial developments. However, the details of the mechanisms that stabilize and transform the reaction intermediates as well as differences in the enzymatic kinetics amongst different bacterial luciferases remain to be elucidated.Keywords
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