Mutant luciferase of a firefly
AssigneeKikkoman Corporation
InventorsNaoki Kajiyama, Eiichi Nakano
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Abstract
The present invention provides industrially useful luciferase. Mutant luciferase of the invention is produced by culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Escherichia which harbors a recombinant DNA containing the mutant luciferase gene of a firefly. Mutant luciferase can produce red, orange or green color of light which can not be produced by wild type luciferase. Mutant luciferase can be used to measure ATP accurately in a colored solution such as red (e.g., blood), orange, or green in which wild-type luciferase has not provided reliable results.
Claims5
A mutant luciferase having the amino acid sequence of the luciferase of Luciola cruciata in which one of the following changes appears:
- serine is replaced by asparagine at amino acid 286, glycine is replaced by serine at amino acid 326, histidine is replaced by tyrosine at amino acid 433 or proline is replaced by serine at amino acid 452.
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