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Summary
Summary
In life science, bioluminescence and chemiluminescence have become a vital tool for laboratory analysis and biomedical imaging both in academic research and industrial product development. The latest advances in this exciting field, from fundamental research to cutting-edge applications, are explored in this most recent volume of the biannual symposium series, the Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence.The volume highlights advances in fundamental knowledge about the origins and mechanisms of naturally occurring luminescence, including luciferases from firefly, beetle, marine, bacterial and fungal sources. Developments in instrumentation are presented, together with a wide variety of optical imaging applications for light-emitting gene expressions in optical imaging, such as imaging of gene expression and protein folding in cells, tissues and live animals. In particular, the various contributors describe in detail the use of light-emitting bacteria and viruses for the detection and therapy of tumors, as was highlighted in the symposium.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. v |
Introduction to the 14th Symposium | p. ix |
Part 1 Luciferases | |
Refolding of the recombinant luciferases of Metridia longa | p. 3 |
The main function of HIS175, TRP179, and TYR190 residues of the obelin binding site is to stabilize the hydroperoxycoelenterazine intermediate | p. 7 |
Mechanistic study on the Cypridina (Vargula) bioluminescence reaction | p. 11 |
Stabilization of Luciola mingrelica firefly luciferase by mutation of non-conservative cysteine residues | p. 15 |
Firefly luciferase arose from fatty acyl-CoA synthetase by gene duplication and gene recruitment | p. 19 |
Bioluminescence in click beetles (family Elateridae): Molecular phylogenetic analysis, inferred from 28S ribosomal DNA | p. 23 |
Effect of microenvironmental changes on kinetic parameters of steady-state enzyme-induced bacterial bioluminescent reaction | p. 27 |
Thermal stability and absorption spectra of bacterial luciferases from Photobacterium leiognathi in water-organic solvents | p. 31 |
Characterization of a fish symbiont of Photobacterium phosphoreum with altered spectral properties | p. 35 |
Part 2 Instrumentation | |
Luminometers for industrial applications of rapid microbiology | p. 41 |
Application of a luminescence microscope with novel optical system for detection of the gene expression pattern of individual cells | p. 45 |
Novel tools for quantification of luminescence | p. 49 |
Luminescence microscope for reporter assay of single live cells | p. 53 |
Part 3 Assays | |
Elevation of choline concentration in cardiac troponin-I positive human plasma | p. 59 |
High throughput detection of hydrogen peroxide: Validation of homogeneous chemiluminescent assays for choline in human plasma and whole blood | p. 63 |
Development of bioluminescent pyrophosphate assay using pyruvate phosphate dikinase and its application to SNPs analysis | p. 67 |
Bioluminescent method for detection of proteinase activity in UHT milk | p. 71 |
Detection and control of Salmonella typhimurium growth using specific bacteriophage | p. 75 |
Improved sensitivity method for rapid hygiene monitoring using ATP bioluminescence | p. 79 |
Determination of antioxidant capacity and reactivity using hemincatalyzed luminol chemiluminescence | p. 83 |
Applications of adenylate kinase detection using bioluminescence | p. 87 |
Standardization of bioluminescent raw milk quality assay using Lumtek test-systems | p. 91 |
BART - Bioluminescent alternative to real-time PCR | p. 95 |
Advancing the development of dual-luciferase assays | p. 99 |
Simultaneous bioluminescent immunoassay using aequorin labeled Fab fragment and biotinylated firefly luciferase | p. 103 |
Designing enhanced thermostable luciferase for proteolytic assay | p. 107 |
Biosensors for the non-invasive evaluation of bacterial quorum sensing in GI disorders | p. 111 |
Improved Ca[superscript 2+]-activated photoproteins for HTS applications | p. 115 |
Development of a multiplexed bioluminescent cell-based assay with the luc gene from Luciola italica for high throughput screening of cholesterol-lowering drugs | p. 119 |
Novel BRET-based biosensors with a new bioluminescent donor, Gaussia luciferase, for estrogen receptor ligands | p. 123 |
The use of lux genes for monitoring uptake of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by respiratory epithelial cells | p. 127 |
Bioluminescence characteristics of an Obelin mutant in varying solvent conditions | p. 131 |
A simple chemiluminescence flow injection analysis for the determination of sulphide in aqueous samples | p. 135 |
Using recombinant antigens for the detection of antibodies to Trypanosomas cruzi on a fully automated chemiluminescence analyzer | p. 139 |
Quantitative bioluminescent RNA assay | p. 143 |
A novel multi-channel chemiluminescence-immunoassay to detect HIV antibodies as a more specific supplemental test | p. 147 |
Time-resolved measurement of firefly bioluminescence using photolysis of caged-ATP | p. 151 |
Red-chemiluminescent probes for detecting superoxide anions | p. 155 |
Aequorin bioluminescence dissected by random mutagenesis | p. 159 |
Influence of inorganic sulfur compounds on bioluminescent system NAD(P)H: FMN-oxidoreductase-luciferase | p. 163 |
Development of the Cypridina bioluminescent system for high throughput screening assays | p. 167 |
Quantitative Western blotting using a GZ-11 based chemiluminogenic signal reagent | p. 171 |
Part 4 Optical Imaging and Multicolor Assays | |
Demonstration of tri-colored reporter assay using a filter luminometer "Sirius C" | p. 177 |
Real-time monitoring of vaccinia virus infection in cultured cells and in living mice using light-emitting proteins | p. 181 |
Use of bioluminescent reporter bacteria to study invasion and survival within mammalian cell lines | p. 185 |
Network activities of the cerebral cortex monitored by bioluminescent aequorin imaging | p. 189 |
Bivalent fluorescent reporters for gene expression studies in Gram-positive bacteria | p. 193 |
Four-color labeling of cell culture and tumors of live mice upon infection with: GFP-Ruc and RFP-CBG99 expressing Vaccinia virus strains | p. 197 |
Quantitative immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization with luminescence detection: a new potential diagnostic tool | p. 201 |
Evaluation of an in vivo gene induction system in infected tumor-bearing mice | p. 205 |
Examinations of bacterium-mediated detection of tumors in mice models | p. 209 |
Part 5 Biochemistry/Luminescence | |
Direct observation of a radical-ion intermediate in the chemiexcitation step of peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence | p. 215 |
Kinetic observation of the chemiexcitation step in peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence | p. 219 |
Synthesis and studies of fenchyl-derived 1,2-dioxetanes | p. 223 |
Enzyme embedded organic monolith sensor for flow injection -chemiluminescence | p. 227 |
Efficiency of electron-transfer induced chemiexcitation: A comparison of inter- and intramolecular processes | p. 231 |
Study of metal binding to monomeric red fluorescent protein, DsRed-monomer | p. 235 |
Time-dependent spectral change of chemiluminescence from firefly luciferin in deoxygenated dimethyl sulfoxide | p. 239 |
A quantum-chemical approach to the amino analogs of firefly luciferin | p. 243 |
Firefly-luciferin and its analogs: a source of new luminescence dyes and ligands | p. 247 |
Chemiluminescence enhancement effect of trace metal elements | p. 251 |
Part 6 BLCL Oceans, Land & Space | |
Bioluminescence in the spaceflight and life science training program at the Kennedy Space Center | p. 257 |
A comparison of bioluminescence and chlorophyll fields of the world ocean | p. 261 |
Brazilian species of bioluminescence fungi | p. 265 |
Molecular phylogeny of cypridinid ostracodes and the evolution of bioluminescence | p. 269 |
Index | p. 273 |