1001 lights: luciferins, luciferases, their mechanisms of action and applications in chemical analysis, biology and medicine

ZM Kaskova, AS Tsarkova, IV Yampolsky - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioluminescence (BL) is a spectacular phenomenon involving light emission by live
organisms. It is caused by the oxidation of a small organic molecule, luciferin, with molecular …

Development and applications of bioluminescent and chemiluminescent reporters and biosensors

HW Yeh, HW Ai - Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Although fluorescent reporters and biosensors have become indispensable tools in
biological and biomedical fields, fluorescence measurements require external excitation …

Red-shifted luciferase–luciferin pairs for enhanced bioluminescence imaging

HW Yeh, O Karmach, A Ji, D Carter… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Red-shifted bioluminescence reporters are desirable for biological imaging. We describe the
development of red-shifted luciferins based on synthetic coelenterazine analogs and …

Bioluminescence profiling of NanoKAZ/NanoLuc luciferase using a chemical library of coelenterazine analogues

EP Coutant, G Gagnot, V Hervin… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We describe here an extensive structure‐bioluminescence relationship study of a chemical
library of analogues of coelenterazine, using nanoKAZ/NanoLuc, a mutated luciferase …

Lighting up bioluminescence with coelenterazine: Strategies and applications

T Jiang, L Du, M Li - Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2016 - Springer
Bioluminescence-based techniques, such as bioluminescence imaging, BRET and dual-
luciferase reporter assay systems, have been widely used to examine a myriad of biological …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of NanoLuc substrates for bioluminescence imaging of transferred cells in mice

N Gaspar, JR Walker, G Zambito… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
NanoLuc luciferase recently gained popularity due to its small size and superior
bioluminescence performance. For in vivo imaging applications, NanoLuc has been limited …

Gram-scale synthesis of luciferins derived from coelenterazine and original insights into their bioluminescence properties

EP Coutant, S Goyard, V Hervin, G Gagnot… - Organic & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
An original gram-scale synthesis of O-acetylated forms of coelenterazine, furimazine or
hydroxy-bearing analogues of luciferins is described. The comparison over two hours of …

Engineering with NanoLuc: a playground for the development of bioluminescent protein switches and sensors

L Biewenga, BJHM Rosier… - Biochemical Society …, 2020 - portlandpress.com
The small engineered luciferase NanoLuc has rapidly become a powerful tool in the fields of
biochemistry, chemical biology, and cell biology due to its exceptional brightness and …

A series of furimazine derivatives for sustained live-cell bioluminescence imaging and application to the monitoring of myogenesis at the single-cell level

M Orioka, M Eguchi, Y Mizui, Y Ikeda… - Bioconjugate …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bioluminescence (BL) imaging, which utilizes light emitted through the enzymatic reaction of
luciferase oxidizing its substrate luciferin, enables sensitive and noninvasive monitoring of …

Development of recombinant infectious hepatitis E virus harboring the nanoKAZ gene and its application in drug screening

PP Primadharsini, S Nagashima, T Nishiyama… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a quasi-enveloped virus with a single-stranded positive-sense
RNA genome belonging to the family Hepeviridae. Studies of the molecular aspects of HEV …