Luciferase and photoprotein
AssigneeChisso Corporation
InventorSatoshi Inouye
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Abstract
The present invention provides a polynucleotide or polynucleotides encoding Oplophorus luciferase which is composed of 19 kDa and 35 kDa proteins, or the 19 kDa photoprotein, the recombinant secretional Oplophorus luciferase or the 19 kDa photoprotein encoded by the polynucleotide(s), an expression vector containing the polynucleotide(s) and a host transformed with the vector. Further, the invention provides a method for producing the recombinant Oplophorus luciferase or the photoprotein. These proteins could be recombinantly produced by culturing the host cell or by in vitro translation system using the recombinant expression vector.
Claims29
A luciferase derived from Decapoda, which is composed of 19 kDa and 35 kDa proteins.
An oligonucleotide comprising at least 10 contiguous nucleotides selected from a polynucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:
- 1 or a complementary sequence thereto.
An oligonucleotide comprising at least 10 contiguous nucleotides selected from a polynucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:
- 3 or a complementary sequence thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.