Perspectives on Bioluminescence Mechanisms

Extraction, Purification and Properties of Aequorin, a Bioluminescent Protein from the Luminous Hydromedusan, Aequorea

Shimomura, O., Johnson, F. H., & Saiga, Y. (1962) · Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology · doi:10.1002/jcp.1030590302 · Cited by 2,390 · see citing works

BIOLUMINESCENCE

Wilson, T., & Hastings, J. W. (1998) · Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology · doi:10.1146/annurev.cellbio.14.1.197 · Cited by 574 · see citing works

Structural basis for the spectral difference in luciferase bioluminescence

Nakatsu, T., Ichiyama, S., Hiratake, J., Saldanha, A., Kobashi, N., Sakata, K., & Kato, H. (2006) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature04542 · Cited by 518 · see citing works

Bioluminescence in Progress

Johnson, F. H., & Haneda, Y. (1967) · Princeton University Press eBooks · doi:10.1515/9781400875689 · Cited by 471 · see citing works

Energy transfer in a bioluminescent system

Morin, J. G., & Hastings, J. W. (1971) · Journal of Cellular Physiology · doi:10.1002/jcp.1040770305 · Cited by 395 · see citing works

Firefly bioluminescence quantum yield and colour change by pH-sensitive green emission

Ando, Y., Niwa, K., Yamada, N., et al. (2007) · Nature Photonics · doi:10.1038/nphoton.2007.251 · Cited by 354 · see citing works

Photoexcited Structure of a Plant Photoreceptor Domain Reveals a Light-Driven Molecular Switch

Crosson, S., & Moffat, K. (2002) · The Plant Cell · doi:10.1105/tpc.010475 · Cited by 350 · see citing works

Spectral emission and quantum yield of firefly bioluminescence

Seliger, H. H., & McElroy, W. D. (1960) · Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics · doi:10.1016/0003-9861(60)90208-3 · Cited by 341 · see citing works

The crystal structure of the photoprotein aequorin at 2.3 Å resolution

Head, J. W., Inouye, S., Teranishi, K., et al. (2000) · Nature · doi:10.1038/35012659 · Cited by 305 · see citing works

Chemical and enzymatic triggering of 1,2-dioxetanes. 2: fluoride-induced chemiluminescence from tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy-substituted dioxetanes

Schaap, A. P., Chen, T.-S., Handley, R. S., et al. (1987) · Tetrahedron Letters · doi:10.1016/s0040-4039(00)95313-9 · Cited by 302 · see citing works

The Energy Source for Bioluminescence in an Isolated System

McElroy, W. D. (1947) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.33.11.342 · Cited by 277 · see citing works

A history of luminescence from the earliest times until 1900

Harvey, E. N. (1957) · American Philosophical Society eBooks · doi:10.5962/bhl.title.14249 · Cited by 272 · see citing works

Intermediates in the Bioluminescent Oxidation of Reduced Flavin Mononucleotide

Hastings, J. W., & Gibson, Q. H. (1963) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1016/s0021-9258(19)68004-x · Cited by 271 · see citing works

Chemiluminescence from concerted peroxide decomposition reactions

Rauhut, M. M. (1969) · Accounts of Chemical Research · doi:10.1021/ar50015a003 · Cited by 271 · see citing works

An optomechanical transducer in the blue light receptor phototropin from Avena sativa

Salomon, M., Eisenreich, W., Dürr, H., Schleicher, E., Knieb, E., Massey, V., Rüdiger, W., Müller, F., Bacher, A., & Richter, G. (2001) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.221455298 · Cited by 212 · see citing works

Chemiluminescent substrates for alkaline phosphatase: application to ultrasensitive enzyme-linked immunoassays and DNA probes.

Schaap, A. P., Akhavan, H., & Romano, L. J. (1989) · Clinical Chemistry · doi:10.1093/clinchem/35.9.1863 · Cited by 199 · see citing works

Luminescence in the thermal decomposition of 3,3,4-trimethyl-1,2-dioxetane

Kopecky, K. R., & Mumford, C. (1969) · Canadian Journal of Chemistry · doi:10.1139/v69-114 · Cited by 195 · see citing works

Structure and Spectroscopy of Oxyluciferin, the Light Emitter of the Firefly Bioluminescence

Naumov, P., Ozawa, Y., Ohkubo, K., et al. (2009) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja904309q · Cited by 194 · see citing works

Yellow-Green and Red Firefly Bioluminescence from 5,5-Dimethyloxyluciferin

Branchini, B. R., Murtiashaw, M. H., Magyar, R. A., et al. (2002) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja017400m · Cited by 164 · see citing works

Structure of the Ca 2+ ‐regulated photoprotein obelin at 1.7 Å resolution determined directly from its sulfur substructure

Liu, Z., Vysotski, E. S., Vysotski, E. S., et al. (2000) · Protein Science · doi:10.1110/ps.9.11.2085 · Cited by 151 · see citing works

Crystal Structure of Firefly Luciferase in a Second Catalytic Conformation Supports a Domain Alternation Mechanism

Sundlov, J. A., Fontaine, D. M., Southworth, T. L., et al. (2012) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi300934s · Cited by 148 · see citing works

Ca2+-Regulated Photoproteins: Structural Insight into the Bioluminescence Mechanism

Vysotski, E. S., & Lee, J. (2004) · Accounts of Chemical Research · doi:10.1021/ar0400037 · Cited by 146 · see citing works

Simple synthesis of a 4a-hydroperoxy adduct of a 1,5-dihydroflavine: preliminary studies of a model for bacterial luciferase.

Kemal, C., & Bruice, T. C. (1976) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.73.4.995 · Cited by 145 · see citing works

Light: Physical and Biological Action.

Cowan, D. O. (1966) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja00971a072 · Cited by 143 · see citing works

Spectroscopic Studies of the Light-Color Modulation Mechanism of Firefly (Beetle) Bioluminescence

Hirano, T., Hasumi, Y., Ohtsuka, K., et al. (2009) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja808836b · Cited by 141 · see citing works

ABSOLUTE SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY OF PHOTOTUBES AND THE APPLICATION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF THE ABSOLUTE QUANTUM YIELDS OF CHEMILUMINESCENCE AND BIOLUMINESCENCE*

Lee, J., & Seliger, H. H. (1965) · Photochemistry and Photobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.1965.tb09293.x · Cited by 141 · see citing works

Studies on the Mechanism of the Excitation Step in Peroxyoxalate Chemiluminescence

Stevani, C. V., da Silva, S. M. S., & Baader, W. J. (2000) · European Journal of Organic Chemistry · doi:10.1002/1099-0690(200012)2000:24 · Cited by 139 · see citing works

Chemiluminescence in Organic Chemistry

Gundermann, K., & McCapra, F. (1987) · Reactivity and structure · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-71645-4 · Cited by 135 · see citing works

Biochemical and Physical Properties of Green Fluorescent Protein

Ward, W. W. (2005) · Methods of biochemical analysis · doi:10.1002/0471739499.ch3 · Cited by 133 · see citing works

Chemiluminescence of 1,2-Dioxetane. Reaction Mechanism Uncovered

De Vico, L., Liu, Y.-J., Krogh, J. W., & Lindh, R. (2007) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · doi:10.1021/jp074063g · Cited by 133 · see citing works

Spectroscopic properties of firefly luciferin and related compounds; an approach to product emission

Morton, R. A., Hopkins, T. A., & Seliger, H. H. (1969) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00832a041 · Cited by 131 · see citing works

The Spectral Distribution of Firefly Light. II

Biggley, W. H., Lloyd, J. E., & Seliger, H. H. (1967) · The Journal of General Physiology · doi:10.1085/jgp.50.6.1681 · Cited by 125 · see citing works

A History of Luminescence from the Earliest Times Until 1900

Cohen, I., & Harvey, E. N. (1958) · The American Historical Review · doi:10.2307/1848952 · Cited by 119 · see citing works

Mechanistic Insight into the Chemiluminescent Decomposition of Firefly Dioxetanone

Yue, L., Liu, Y., & Fang, W. (2012) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja302979t · Cited by 117 · see citing works

Protein structure and bioluminescent spectra for firefly bioluminescence

Угарова, Н. Н., & Brovko, L. (2002) · Luminescence · doi:10.1002/bio.688 · Cited by 115 · see citing works

A new chemiluminescent system

Chandross, E. A. (1963) · Tetrahedron Letters · doi:10.1016/s0040-4039(01)90712-9 · Cited by 113 · see citing works

Theoretical Study of the Chemiluminescent Decomposition of Dioxetanone

Liu, F., Liu, Y., Vico, L. D., et al. (2009) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja808511t · Cited by 112 · see citing works

Shining the light: the mechanism of the bioluminescence reaction of calcium-binding photoproteins

Ohmiya, Y., & Hirano, T. (1996) · Chemistry & Biology · doi:10.1016/s1074-5521(96)90116-7 · Cited by 111 · see citing works

“Newton’s cradle” proton relay with amide–imidic acid tautomerization in inverting cellulase visualized by neutron crystallography

Nakamura, A., Ishida, T., Kusaka, K., et al. (2015) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500263 · Cited by 109 · see citing works

Crystal Structure of the Bacterial Luciferase/Flavin Complex Provides Insight into the Function of the β Subunit

Campbell, Z. T., Weichsel, A., Montfort, W. R., et al. (2009) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi900003t · Cited by 106 · see citing works

Experimental Support for a Single Electron-Transfer Oxidation Mechanism in Firefly Bioluminescence

Branchini, B. R., Behney, C. E., Southworth, T. L., et al. (2015) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.5b03820 · Cited by 106 · see citing works

On the Structure of Flavin‐Oxygen Intermediates Involved in Enzymatic Reactions

Ghisla, S., Entsch, B., Massey, V., et al. (1977) · European Journal of Biochemistry · doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1977.tb11579.x · Cited by 105 · see citing works

Reactions Involved in Bioluminescence Systems of Limpet ( Latia neritoides ) and Luminous Bacteria

Shimomura, O., Johnson, F. H., & Kohama, Y. (1972) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.69.8.2086 · Cited by 102 · see citing works

Mechanism of Efficient Firefly Bioluminescence via Adiabatic Transition State and Seam of Sloped Conical Intersection

Chung, L. W., Hayashi, S., Lundberg, M., et al. (2008) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja8052464 · Cited by 102 · see citing works

Quantum Yields and Kinetics of the Firefly Bioluminescence Reaction of Beetle Luciferases

Niwa, K., Ichino, Y., Kumata, S., et al. (2010) · Photochemistry and Photobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.2010.00777.x · Cited by 101 · see citing works

Light: Physical and Biological Action

Siliger, H. H., McElroy, W. D., & Weber, R. L. (1966) · Physics Today · doi:10.1063/1.3048226 · Cited by 99 · see citing works

Biochemistry and Genetics of Bacterial Bioluminescence

Dunlap, P. V. (2014) · Advances in biochemical engineering, biotechnology · doi:10.1007/978-3-662-43385-0_2 · Cited by 95 · see citing works

Crystal structure of obelin after Ca 2+ -triggered bioluminescence suggests neutral coelenteramide as the primary excited state

Liu, Z., Stepanyuk, G. A., Vysotski, E. S., et al. (2006) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0511142103 · Cited by 90 · see citing works

Bioluminescence

Shimomura, O. (2011) · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks · doi:10.1142/8239 · Cited by 88 · see citing works

The Effect of Flavin Isomers and Analogues upon the Color of Bacterial Bioluminescence

Mitchell, G., & Hastings, J. W. (1969) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1016/s0021-9258(18)83438-x · Cited by 86 · see citing works

Spectral−Structural Effects of the Keto−Enol−Enolate and Phenol−Phenolate Equilibria of Oxyluciferin

Naumov, P., & Manoj, K. (2010) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja102885g · Cited by 86 · see citing works

Fluorescence and bioluminescence of bacterial luciferase intermediates

Balny, C., & Hastings, J. W. (1975) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00692a024 · Cited by 85 · see citing works

Conversion of aldehyde to acid in the bacterial bioluminescent reaction

Dunn, D. K., Michaliszyn, G., Bogacki, I. G., et al. (1973) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00748a016 · Cited by 79 · see citing works

Identifications of the true carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of the stable intermediate II in bacterial luciferase

Vervoort, J. J. M., Müller, F., Lee, J., et al. (1986) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00372a040 · Cited by 78 · see citing works

ENERGY TRANSFER VIA PROTEIN‐PROTEIN INTERACTION IN RENILLA BIOLUMINESCENCE

Ward, W. W., & Cormier, M. J. (1978) · Photochemistry and Photobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.1978.tb07621.x · Cited by 77 · see citing works

Emission Properties of Oxyluciferin and Its Derivatives in Water: Revealing the Nature of the Emissive Species in Firefly Bioluminescence

Ghose, A., Rębarz, M., Maltsev, O. V., et al. (2014) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/jp508905m · Cited by 76 · see citing works

BIOCHEMISTRY OF BACTERIAL BIOLUMINESCENCE

Tu, S., & Mager, H. I. X. (1995) · Photochemistry and Photobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.1995.tb08708.x · Cited by 72 · see citing works

The mechanism of chemiluminescence: A new chemiluminescent reaction

McCapra, F., & Richardson, D. G. (1964) · Tetrahedron Letters · doi:10.1016/0040-4039(64)83128-2 · Cited by 72 · see citing works

Yellow light emission of Vibrio fischeri strain Y-1: purification and characterization of the energy-accepting yellow fluorescent protein.

Daubner, S. C., Astorga, A. M., Leisman, G. B., et al. (1987) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.84.24.8912 · Cited by 72 · see citing works

Bacterial bioluminescence - identification of fatty acid as product, its quantum yield and a suggested mechanism

McCapra, F., & Hysert, D. W. (1973) · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · doi:10.1016/0006-291x(73)90987-x · Cited by 71 · see citing works

MECHANISMS IN THE QUANTUM YIELD OF CYPRIDINA BIOLUMINESCENCE*

Shimomura, O., & Johnson, F. H. (1970) · Photochemistry and Photobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.1970.tb06061.x · Cited by 70 · see citing works

Bacterial bioluminescence. Comparisons of bioluminescence emission spectra, the fluorescence of luciferase reaction mixtures, and the fluorescence of flavin cations

Eley, M. H., Lee, J., Lhoste, J. M., et al. (1970) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00816a023 · Cited by 69 · see citing works

Coelenterazine-dependent luciferases

Markova, S. V., & Vysotski, E. S. (2015) · Biochemistry (Moscow) · doi:10.1134/s0006297915060073 · Cited by 68 · see citing works

Coelenterate Bioluminescence

Morin, J. G. (1974) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-512150-7.50015-3 · Cited by 68 · see citing works

Isolation and properties of bacterial luciferase-oxygenated flavin intermediate complexed with long-chain alcohols

Tu, S. (1979) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00593a028 · Cited by 67 · see citing works

Chemiluminescent reactions and electrophilic oxygen donating ability of 4a-hydroperoxyflavins: general synthetic method for the preparation of N5-alkyl-1,5-dihydroflavins.

Kemal, C., Chan, T. W., & Bruice, T. C. (1977) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.74.2.405 · Cited by 67 · see citing works

Renilla reniformis bioluminescence: luciferase-catalyzed production of nonradiating excited states from luciferin analogs and elucidation of the excited state species involved in energy transfer to Renilla green fluorescent protein

Hart, R. C., Matthews, J. C., Hori, K., & Cormier, M. J. (1979) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00578a011 · Cited by 66 · see citing works

Violet Bioluminescence and Fast Kinetics from W92F Obelin: Structure-Based Proposals for the Bioluminescence Triggering and the Identification of the Emitting Species

Vysotski, E. S., Liu, Z., Markova, S. V., et al. (2003) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi027258h · Cited by 65 · see citing works

In vitro energy transfer in Renilla bioluminescence

Ward, W. W., & Cormier, M. J. (1976) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry · doi:10.1021/j100561a030 · Cited by 63 · see citing works

Bacterial bioluminescence. Quantum yields and stoichiometry of the reactants reduced flavin mononucleotide, dodecanal, and oxygen, and of a product hydrogen peroxide

Lee, J. (1972) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00768a007 · Cited by 63 · see citing works

The reaction mechanism for the high quantum yield of Cypridina (Vargula) bioluminescence supported by the chemiluminescence of 6-aryl-2-methylimidazo[1,2-a]pyrazin-3(7H)-ones (Cypridina luciferin analogues)

Hirano, T., Takahashi, Y., Kondo, H., et al. (2007) · Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences · doi:10.1039/b713374j · Cited by 62 · see citing works

Low-temperature photooxygenation of coelenterate luciferin analog synthesis and proof of 1,2-dioxetanone as luminescence intermediate

Usami, K., & Isobe, M. (1996) · Tetrahedron · doi:10.1016/0040-4020(96)00699-0 · Cited by 61 · see citing works

Fusion of Aequorea victoria GFP and aequorin provides their Ca2+-induced interaction that results in red shift of GFP absorption and efficient bioluminescence energy transfer

Gorokhovatsky, A. Y., Marchenkov, V. V., Руденко, Н. В., et al. (2004) · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.06.014 · Cited by 60 · see citing works

Atomic resolution structure of obelin: soaking with calcium enhances electron density of the second oxygen atom substituted at the C2-position of coelenterazine

Liu, Z., Vysotski, E. S., Deng, L., et al. (2003) · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.09.231 · Cited by 60 · see citing works

Chemical generation of excited states: The basis of chemiluminescence and bioluminescence

McCapra, F. (2000) · Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology · doi:10.1016/s0076-6879(00)05475-6 · Cited by 59 · see citing works

Photoinduced Dynamics of Oxyluciferin Analogues: Unusual Enol “Super”photoacidity and Evidence for Keto–Enol Isomerization

Solntsev, K. M., Laptenok, S. P., & Naumov, P. (2012) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja3045212 · Cited by 59 · see citing works

Purification of the yellow fluorescent protein from vibrio fischeri and identity of the flavin chromophore

Macheroux, P., Schmidt, K., Steinerstauch, P., et al. (1987) · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · doi:10.1016/0006-291x(87)90696-6 · Cited by 57 · see citing works

Development of a Quantitative Bio/Chemiluminescence Spectrometer Determining Quantum Yields: Re‐examination of the Aqueous Luminol Chemiluminescence Standard

Ando, Y., Niwa, K., Yamada, N., et al. (2007) · Photochemistry and Photobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.2007.00140.x · Cited by 57 · see citing works

Bioluminescence Is Produced from a Trapped Firefly Luciferase Conformation Predicted by the Domain Alternation Mechanism

Branchini, B. R., Rosenberg, J. C., Fontaine, D. M., et al. (2011) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja2041496 · Cited by 56 · see citing works

Studies on the mechanism of the peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence reaction

Bos, R., Barnett, N. W., Dyson, G., et al. (2003) · Analytica Chimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.aca.2003.10.014 · Cited by 55 · see citing works

Bacterial luciferase: a carbon-13, nitrogen-15, and phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance investigation

Vervoort, J. J. M., Müller, F., O’Kane, D. J., et al. (1986) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00372a041 · Cited by 55 · see citing works

Are the Bio‐ and Chemiluminescence States of the Firefly Oxyluciferin the Same as the Fluorescence State?

Navizet, I., Roca‐Sanjuán, D., Yue, L., et al. (2012) · Photochemistry and Photobiology · doi:10.1111/php.12007 · Cited by 52 · see citing works

Modification of spectral sensitivities by screening pigments in the compound eyes of twilight-active fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

Lall, A. B., Strother, G. K., Cronin, T. W., et al. (1988) · Journal of Comparative Physiology A · doi:10.1007/bf01342700 · Cited by 52 · see citing works

The light‐sensitive photoprotein berovin from the bioluminescent ctenophore Beroe abyssicola: a novel type of Ca2+‐regulated photoprotein

Markova, S. V., Burakova, L. P., Gölz, S., Malikova, N. P., Frank, L. A., & Vysotski, E. S. (2012) · FEBS Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08476.x · Cited by 51 · see citing works

The mechanism of electronic excitation in the bacterial bioluminescent reaction

Nemtseva, E. V., & Kudryasheva, N. S. (2007) · Russian Chemical Reviews · doi:10.1070/rc2007v076n01abeh003648 · Cited by 51 · see citing works

NMR-derived Topology of a GFP-photoprotein Energy Transfer Complex

Titushin, M. S., Feng, Y., Stepanyuk, G. A., et al. (2010) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.m110.133843 · Cited by 51 · see citing works

Chemiluminescence of Firefly Luciferin without Enzyme

Seliger, H. H., & McElroy, W. D. (1962) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.138.3541.683 · Cited by 50 · see citing works

Fluorescence Properties of Reduced Flavins and Flavoproteins

Visser, A. J. W. G., Ghisla, S., Massey, V., et al. (1979) · European Journal of Biochemistry · doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1979.tb04210.x · Cited by 50 · see citing works

In Search of a Chemiluminescence 1,4-Dioxy Biradical

Bos, R., Tonkin, S. A., Hanson, G. R., et al. (2009) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/ja808401p · Cited by 49 · see citing works

Structural basis for the emission of violet bioluminescence from a W92F obelin mutant

Deng, L., Vysotski, E. S., Liu, Z., et al. (2001) · FEBS Letters · doi:10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02937-4 · Cited by 49 · see citing works

Cypridina bioluminescence v. structure of emitting species in the luminescence of cypridina luciferin and its related compounds

Goto, T., Inoue, S., Sugiura, S., et al. (1968) · Tetrahedron Letters · doi:10.1016/s0040-4039(00)76313-1 · Cited by 49 · see citing works

Green-fluorescent protein from the bioluminescent jellyfish Clytia gregaria: cDNA cloning, expression, and characterization of novel recombinant protein

Markova, S. V., Burakova, L. P., Frank, L. A., et al. (2010) · Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences · doi:10.1039/c0pp00023j · Cited by 48 · see citing works

Lumazine protein and the excitation mechanism in bacterial bioluminescence

Lee, J. (1993) · Biophysical Chemistry · doi:10.1016/0301-4622(93)85006-4 · Cited by 48 · see citing works

The chemiluminescence of a Cypridina luciferin analogue

McCapra, F., & CHANG, Y. (1967) · Chemical Communications (London) · doi:10.1039/c19670001011 · Cited by 45 · see citing works

Quantum efficiency determinations on components of the bacterial luminescence system

Cormier, M. J., & Totter, J. R. (1957) · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta · doi:10.1016/0006-3002(57)90463-8 · Cited by 43 · see citing works

Impact of Site-Directed Mutant Luciferase on Quantitative Green and Orange/Red Emission Intensities in Firefly Bioluminescence

Wang, Y., Akiyama, H., Terakado, K., et al. (2013) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/srep02490 · Cited by 43 · see citing works

Borrowed proteins in bacterial bioluminescence.

O’Kane, D. J., Woodward, B., Lee, J., et al. (1991) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.88.4.1100 · Cited by 43 · see citing works

Structure of the functional part of photoprotein aequorin

Musicki, B., Kishi, Y., & Shimomura, O. (1986) · Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · doi:10.1039/c39860001566 · Cited by 41 · see citing works

Firefly bioluminescence II. Identification of 2-(6′-hydroxybenzothiazol-2′-yl)-4-hydroxythiazole as a product in the bioluminescence of firefly lanterns and as a product in the chemiluminescence of firefly luciferin in DMSO

Suzuki, N., & Goto, T. (1971) · Tetrahedron Letters · doi:10.1016/s0040-4039(01)96770-x · Cited by 40 · see citing works

CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BIOLUMINESCENCE

Mager, H. I. X., & Tu, S. (1995) · Photochemistry and Photobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.1995.tb08707.x · Cited by 39 · see citing works

Quantum Yields and Quantitative Spectra of Firefly Bioluminescence with Various Bivalent Metal Ions

Wang, Y., Kubota, H., Yamada, N., et al. (2011) · Photochemistry and Photobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.2011.00931.x · Cited by 38 · see citing works

Chemiluminescence of 6-aryl-2-methylimidazo[1,2-a]pyrazin-3(7H)-ones in DMSO/TMG and in diglyme/acetate buffer: support for the chemiexcitation process to generate the singlet-excited state of neutral oxyluciferin in a high quantum yield in the Cypridina (Vargula) bioluminescence mechanism

Takahashi, Y., Kondo, H., Maki, S., et al. (2006) · Tetrahedron Letters · doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2006.06.101 · Cited by 37 · see citing works

Spectral detection of an intermediate preceding the excited state in the bacterial luciferase reaction

Macheroux, P., Ghisla, S., & Hastings, J. W. (1993) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00214a017 · Cited by 37 · see citing works

Hybrid QM/MM Simulations of the Obelin Bioluminescence and Fluorescence Reveal an Unexpected Light Emitter

Chen, S.-F., Navizet, I., Lindh, R. H., et al. (2014) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/jp412198w · Cited by 36 · see citing works

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