Bacterial bioluminescence: Spectral study of the emitters in the in vitro reaction
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 78 (2) , 948-952
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.78.2.948
Abstract
Transient fluorescent species are observed in the bioluminescent reactions of 3 reduced flavine mononucleotides with aliphatic aldehydes and oxygen, catalyzed by bacterial luciferase. In each case the fluorescence spectral distribution is similar to that of the bioluminescence but is readily distinguishable from it on the basis of a significantly greater signal strength. The corrected bioluminescence maxima using Beneckea harveyi luciferase are 479 nm (iso-FMNH2), 490 nm (FMNH2) and 560 nm (2-thio-FMNH2). In a ethanol glass at 77.degree. K, 2-thioriboflavine is fluorescent (.phi.F = 0.03, .lambda.max = 562 nm). These results are interpreted by a sensitized chemiluminescence mechanism in which the flavine bound to luciferase act as acceptors of excitation energy. For 2-thio-FMNH2, this acceptor species appears to be the oxidized 2-thio-FMN on the basis of the spectral evidence, whereas for the other flavines, some form of reduced species is a more likely candidate.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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