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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2005

Alternative luciferase for monitoring bacterial cells under adverse conditions.

Siouxsie Wiles, Kathryn Ferguson, Martha Stefanidou, Douglas B Young, Brian D Robertson

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Siouxsie WilesCentre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Kathryn Ferguson
Martha Stefanidou
Douglas B Young
Brian D Robertson
Imperial College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The availability of cloned luciferase genes from fireflies (luc) and from bacteria (luxAB) has led to the widespread use of bioluminescence as a reporter to measure cell viability and gene expression. The most commonly occurring bioluminescence system in nature is the deep-sea imidazolopyrazine bioluminescence system. Coelenterazine is an imidazolopyrazine derivative which, when oxidized by an appropriate luciferase enzyme, produces carbon dioxide, coelenteramide, and light. The luciferase from the marine copepod Gaussia princeps (Gluc) has recently been cloned. We expressed the Gluc gene in Mycobacterium smegmatis using a shuttle vector and compared its performance with that of an existing luxAB reporter. In contrast to luxAB, the Gluc luciferase retained its luminescence output in the stationary phase of growth and exhibited enhanced stability during exposure to low pH, hydrogen peroxide, and high temperature. The work presented here demonstrated the utility of the copepod luciferase bioluminescent reporter as an alternative to bacterial luciferase, particularly for monitoring responses to environmental stress stimuli.

Indexed as

Heat-Shock ResponseAnimalsBacterial ProteinsColony Count, MicrobialCopepodaGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenetic VectorsHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationHydrogen PeroxideLuciferasesLuminescent MeasurementsMycobacterium smegmatisTemperatureBacterial ProteinsHydrogen PeroxideLuciferases

Identifiers

PMID16000745
PMCPMC1169068
OpenAlexW2134184041

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