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Biosynthesis of luciferin in the sea firefly, Cypridina hilgendorfii: l-tryptophan is a component in Cypridina luciferin

✍ Scribed by Yuichi Oba; Shin-ichi Kato; Makoto Ojika; Satoshi Inouye

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2002
Tongue: French
Weight: 104 KB
Volume: 43
Category: Article
ISSN: 0040-4039
DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)00257-5

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✦ Synopsis

Feeding experiment to the marine ostracod crustacean, Cypridina (Vargula) hilgendorfii, using L-tryptophan labeled with deuterium at indole ring revealed that the labeled L-tryptophan was incorporated into Cypridina luciferin as a component and the animals were able to synthesize the luciferin in a de novo synthetic pathway.