Firefly Luminescence: a Historical Perspective and Recent Developments

Overview

Journal Photochem Photobiol Sci

Publisher Springer

Specialties Biology
Chemistry

Date 2008 Feb 12

PMID 18264582

Citations 51

Authors

Hugo Fraga

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Abstract

Significant advances have occurred regarding our knowledge of firefly luciferase mechanisms. Although most of this progress was an outcome of molecular biology and structural studies, important achievements have also occurred on its fundamental chemistry. Those developments are here summarized and presented in a historical perspective.

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