luciferine

English

Noun

luciferine (plural luciferines)

1. Alternative form of luciferin
   • 1916, Ulric Dahlgren, The Production of Light by Animals, page 4:

     These several experiments show that the light produced by the animal is the result of the bringing of a secretion, the luciferine, into contact with the free oxygen in the sea-water, when the luciferine is discharged from the cells […]

   • 1917, Journal of the Franklin Institute, page 217:

     The writer has attempted to devise certain fixations and stains that would serve to determine a substance as luciferine or photogenin or not when this substance was being sought in an organ of unknown location in an animal that had been […]

   • 1921, American Journal of Physiology, page 8:

     The following experiments were planned to secure evidence as to whether Cypridina luciferine and luciferase are proteins. In all the following experiments, luciferase solution which was not treated by HgCl, was used.

   • 1923, Sir William Abbott Herdman, Founders of Oceanography and Their Work: An Introduction to the Science of the Sea, page 227:

     As we have seen, it was the French physiologist Raphael Dubois who first determined the presence of luciferine and luciferase in the case of the marine boring bivalve mollusc Pholas dactylus, and also in the case of a terrestrial […]

   • 1924, Swale Vincent, An Introduction to the Study of Secretion, page 76:

     A third substance, photophelein, is supposed to be capable of liberating luciferine from some bound condition in solutions containing luciferase. According to Harvey one part of luciferase in 1,700,000,000 parts of water will give […]

   • 2012 December 2, Donald Horrocks, Organic Scintillators and Scintillation Counting, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 127:

     Its two basic components, the enzyme luciferase and the substrate luciferine, react with each other after activation of the latter by ATP. However, commercial preparations contain several impurities, among which residual ATP […]

Italian

Adjective

luciferine

1. feminine plural of luciferino