Because marine luciferins are readily available in the food chain, it would appear that, after the initial evolutionary events, the diversifi cation of bioluminescent organisms could be relatively easy and recent (Haddock et al. 2001). An organism...
Perhaps the major drawback at present is that engineering of luciferases is not nearly as advanced as for green fluorescent protein (GFP) and its derivatives, some of which have been tailored to report specific physiological parameters. On the other hand, despite being dimmer, luciferases are ...
Why are nautiloids members of the Mollusca phylum? How do marine organisms float? How does the starfish adapt to the aquatic biome? Where are bioluminescent phytoplankton found? Why do amphibians live near the water? Explain how plankton form the base of ocean food webs. ...
These bioluminescent bacteria are stored in a seawater filled tube,giving the bacteria room to float around and light up.The light provided by the bacteria is part of their natural metabolism,so producing the light requires no energy other than that which is needed to feed the organ...
Nluc is a bioluminescent protein that emits 450 nm luminescence by adding the substrate “Furimazine” (18) and can be utilized as an efficient donor of BRET (17). The conjugated protein consists of EGFPpHΔC12 (EGFPpH lacking C-terminal 12 amino acids), the linker amino acid sequence of ...
functions are characterized and similar to each other, we can use parsimony to infer that the sequence has a similar function. A draw-back to phylogenetic analyses is that they tend to be time-consuming because of the need to re-calculate trees each time that new data are collected (e.g....
Where are two environments that amphibians are found? In what part of the ocean are phytoplankton found? Where are aquatic biomes located? Where can you find protozoa? Where are monotreme fossils found? Where do amphibian larvae live? Where are bioluminescent phytoplankton found? What is the func...
sea sparkleA species of dinoflagellate known asNoctiluca scintillans, commonly called sea sparkle, is a type of algae that can aggregate into an algal bloom, producing substances that are potentially toxic to marine life. Marine plants are not bioluminescent, but several marineprotozoansand marine an...
The Microtox® bioassay utilizing bioluminescent marine bacteria Vibrio fischeri (strain NRRL B-11177) was applied for ecotoxicity testing. The inhibition of bioluminescence was measured using the Microtox® Model 500 Analyzer (MODERNWATER Inc., New Castle, USA). In this test, diluted aqueous solu...
[0029] Alternatively, advantage can be taken of the fact that the light emission does not fade entirely, but eventually reaches a substantially constant condition. At this low and substantially constant ATP level, it becomes easy to measure ADP, by adding to the bioluminescent reaction reagent(s...