Aequorin
"Aequorin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A photoprotein isolated from the bioluminescent jellyfish Aequorea. It emits visible light by an intramolecular reaction when a trace amount of calcium ion is added. The light-emitting moiety in the bioluminescence reaction is believed to be 2-amino-3-benzyl-5-(p-hydroxyphenyl)pyrazine (AF-350).
| Descriptor ID |
D000331
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.532.020
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Aequorin" by people in Profiles.
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Tammim?ki A, Herder P, Li P, Esch C, Laughlin JR, Akk G, Stitzel JA. Impact of human D398N single nucleotide polymorphism on intracellular calcium response mediated by a3?4a5 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Neuropharmacology. 2012 Nov; 63(6):1002-11.
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Karadsheh MS, Shah MS, Tang X, Macdonald RL, Stitzel JA. Functional characterization of mouse alpha4beta2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors stably expressed in HEK293T cells. J Neurochem. 2004 Dec; 91(5):1138-50.