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Article: Luciferase of the scyphozoan medusa Periphylla periphylla.
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- The Biological Bulletin
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Introduction
All three classes of the phylum Cnidaria contain bioluminescent species. In the class Hydrozoa, all reported cases of luminescence are caused by [Ca.sup.2+]-sensitive photoproteins such as aequorin, found in the jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Shimomura et al., 1962), and obelin, obtained from the hydroid Obelia sp. (Morin and Hastings, 1971a, b; Campbell, 1974; Visotskii et al., 1989). In the class Anthozoa, light emission is produced by luciferin-luciferase type reactions, such as those of the sea pansy Renilla sp. (Cormier, 1978), the sea cactus Cavernularia obesa, and the sea pen Ptilosarcus gruneyi (Shimomura and Johnson, 1979). The bioluminescence of ...