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RE: "Identify the molecule" league #13. Prize: knowledge + 100 STEM + 200 TMN
hi
Aequorin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aequorin
you're right
congrats!
I was surprised you said Aequorin and not Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/42
'cause Aequorin is less popular (as far as I know)
and you were right.
just sent you 100 STEM
and
200 TMN
to the address you provided me earlier.
("I have a NEO address in Exodus: AR2fvyWbNR9qkCrmq8y7g74XxMC1gx4ZoA")
Transaction ID
https://neoscan.io/transaction/a6f20e39fbf09a38eaa2d8f780898e76331e42a5c4c2645d0c89da75bed482ff
Thanks! I like the challenges!
Aequorin
Aequorin is a calcium-activated photoprotein isolated from the hydrozoan Aequorea victoria. Though the bioluminescence was studied decades before, the protein was isolated in 1962 from the animal by Osamu Shimomura. In the animals, the protein occurs together with the green fluorescent protein to produce green light by resonant energy transfer, while aequorin by itself generates blue light.
Discussions of "jellyfish DNA" to make "glowing" animals often refer to transgenic animals which express the green fluorescent protein, not aequorin, although both originally derived from the same animal.