 Firefly Luciferin
"Firefly Luciferin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A benzothaizole which is oxidized by LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY to cause emission of light (LUMINESCENCE).
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D049454
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D02.886.675.298 D03.383.129.708.298
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Jones KA, Porterfield WB, Rathbun CM, McCutcheon DC, Paley MA, Prescher JA. Orthogonal Luciferase-Luciferin Pairs for Bioluminescence Imaging. J Am Chem Soc. 2017 02 15; 139(6):2351-2358.
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Steinhardt RC, Rathbun CM, Krull BT, Yu JM, Yang Y, Nguyen BD, Kwon J, McCutcheon DC, Jones KA, Furche F, Prescher JA. Brominated Luciferins Are Versatile Bioluminescent Probes. Chembiochem. 2017 Jan 03; 18(1):96-100.
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Steinhardt RC, O'Neill JM, Rathbun CM, McCutcheon DC, Paley MA, Prescher JA. Design and Synthesis of an Alkynyl Luciferin Analogue for Bioluminescence Imaging. Chemistry. 2016 Mar 07; 22(11):3671-5.
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BITLER B, McELROY WD. The preparation and properties of crystalline firefly luciferin. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1957 Dec; 72(2):358-68.
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