Shimomura O, Shimomura A
Biochem J. 1985 Jun 15;228(3):745-9. doi: 10.1042/bj2280745.
Two kinds of aequorin-type photoproteins, i.e., halistaurin and phialidin, and four kinds of modified forms of aequorin, i.e., products of acetylation, ethoxycarbonylation, fluorescamine-modification and fluorescein labelling, were prepared. The modified forms of aequorin were more sensitive to Ca2+ than was aequorin in their Ca2+-triggered luminescence reactions, whereas halistaurin and phialidin were less sensitive. The emission maxima of luminescence were all within a wavelength range 450-464 nm, except for fluorescein-labelled aequorin, which emitted yellowish light (lambda max. 520 nm). A new technique of measuring Ca2+ concentration is suggested.
制备了两种水母发光蛋白类型,即海葵荧光蛋白和海鳃荧光蛋白,以及四种水母发光蛋白的修饰形式,即乙酰化、乙氧羰基化、荧光胺修饰和荧光素标记的产物。在其Ca2+触发的发光反应中,水母发光蛋白的修饰形式对Ca2+比水母发光蛋白更敏感,而海葵荧光蛋白和海鳃荧光蛋白则较不敏感。除了发出淡黄色光(最大波长520nm)的荧光素标记的水母发光蛋白外,发光的最大发射波长均在450 - 464nm范围内。提出了一种测量Ca2+浓度的新技术。