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Microenvironment effects on the spectral-kinetic properties of firefly luciferin

L.Yu. Brovko, E.Yu. Cherednikova, A.Yu. Chikishev, E.A. Chudinova

Moscow University Physics Bulletin 1998. 53. N 3. P. 33

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The fluorescent properties of luciferin-substrate and an analog of the light emitter in the bioluminescent system of fireflies have been studied depending on luciferin microenvironment and structure. For the phenolate form of luciferin, which is a fluorophore analog, a linear dependence between the position of its fluorescence spectrum maximum and the solvent orientational polarizability is observed. The microenvironment of the bioluminescent reaction substrate is shown to be nonhydrophobic.

Authors
L.Yu. Brovko, E.Yu. Cherednikova, A.Yu. Chikishev, E.A. Chudinova
Department of General Physics and Wave Processes, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia
Issue 3, 1998

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