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- Title
Bacterial and Other "Luciferins".
- Authors
Johnson, Frank H.; Shimomura, Osamu
- Abstract
The article focuses on the research related to bioluminescent organisms. The first scientific research on bioluminescence was carried out on luminous bacteria and fungi by scientist-philosopher Robert Boyle in the 17th century. Boyle's experiments, much ahead of their time, had a distinctly modern flavor in design and performance. More than two centuries after Boyle's research, luminescent reactions in vitro were demonstrated with hot water and cold water extracts of photogenic tissues of the West Indies elaterid beetle Pyrophorus and analogous extracts of the boring clam Pholas dactylus. The luminous bacterial system is the only one discovered so far wherein the metabolic pathway to light-emission is an integral part of the dark respiratory pathway of aerobic organisms in general.
- Subjects
BIOLUMINESCENCE; LUMINOUS bacteria; LUMINESCENCE; BOYLE, Robert, 1627-1691; METABOLISM; TISSUES; BEETLES; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PHOTOBIOLOGY
- Publication
BioScience, 1975, Vol 25, Issue 11, p718
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1297451