Abstract:
The invention relates to a bioluminescent substrate suitably usable in a series of artificial luciferases (ALuc), and the invention provides a wavelength-shifted spectrum with a selective high intensity luminescence and high luminescence stability obtained by the use of the substrate together with ALuc. The luminescent substrate for ALuc obtained by the invention can be included together with a suitable luminescence solution in a luminescence kit. The bioluminescent substrate for ALuc of the invention can exhibit unprecedented excellent luminescence specificity and functionality in the conventional bioluminescence probe, two-hybrid assay, bioluminescent capsule, and reporter gene assay.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to provision of novel artificial bioluminescent enzymes. According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a polypeptide, including any one of amino acid sequences (i) to (iii) below, and having a copepod luciferase activity: (i) an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or 12; (ii) an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or 12 in which one or several amino acids are substituted, added, or deleted; or (iii) an amino acid sequence having an identity of not less than 90% with an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or 12.