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Conjugated Dienoic Acid Peroxides as Substrates in Chaetopterus Bioluminescence System.

Renata I ZagitovaKonstantin V PurtovAleksandr S ShcheglovKonstantin S MineevMaxim A DubinnyiIvan N MyasnyankoOlga A BelozerovaVera G PakhomovaValentin N PetushkovNatalia S RodionovaVladislav A LushpaElena B GuglyaSergey KovalchukValeri B KozhemyakoJeremy D MirzaAnderson G OliveiraIlia V YampolskyZinaida M KaskovaAleksandra S Tsarkova
Published in: International journal of molecular sciences (2023)
Biochemistry of bioluminescence of the marine parchment tubeworm Chaetopterus has been in research focus for over a century; however, the results obtained by various groups contradict each other. Here, we report the isolation and structural elucidation of three compounds from Chaetomorpha linum algae, which demonstrate bioluminescence activity with Chaetopterus luciferase in the presence of Fe 2+ ions. These compounds are derivatives of polyunsaturated fatty acid peroxides. We have also obtained their structural analogues and demonstrated their activity in the bioluminescence reaction, thus confirming the broad substrate specificity of the luciferase.
Keyphrases
  • fatty acid
  • energy transfer
  • quantum dots
  • molecular docking
  • structure activity relationship
  • structural basis
  • molecular dynamics simulations