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SUBMITTER: Tzertzinis G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3387026 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tzertzinis George G Schildkraut Ezra E Schildkraut Ira I
PloS one 20120629 6
Marine luciferases are increasingly used as reporters to study gene regulation. These luciferases have utility in bioluminescent assay development, although little has been reported on their catalytic properties in response to substrate concentration. Here, we report that the two marine luciferases from the copepods, Gaussia princeps (GLuc) and Metridia longa (MLuc) were found, surprisingly, to produce light in a cooperative manner with respect to their luciferin substrate concentration; as the ...[more]