Gonyaulax polyedra

Since the year 2001, the species name Lingulodinium polyedrum (Stein) Dodge 1989 is widely used in place of Gonyaulax polyedra Stein 1883. Considering that many important papers on dinoflagel-late luminescence have been published using the old name, the name Gonyaulax is used in this book. 

Fig. 8.1 Luminescence spectra of luciferin-luciferase reaction of the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra (Lingulodinium polyedrum) in a solution (solid line), isolated scintillons (x), and living Gonyaulax cells (o). From Hastings et al., 1966.

Fig. 8.2 Gel filtration on a column of Sephadex G-100 at pH 8 (both panels) of the crude extract of Gonyaulax polyedra cells prepared at pH 8 (upper panel) and prepared at pH 6 (lower panel). The activities of the 35 kDa and 130 kDa luciferases are measured by the addition of an excess of luciferin at pH 6.3 ( ) or at pH 8(A). The activity of the luciferin-bound LBP (luciferin-binding protein) in the upper panel is measured after the addition of an excess of 35 kDa luciferase at pH 6.3 ( ). In the lower panel, the LBP activity can be obtained by the addition of an excess of luciferin at pH 8, followed by the removal of unbound luciferin with a small column of Sephadex G-25 before the luminescence assay of bound luciferin at pH 6.3 (see the Section 8.2.8). The Overlap in the upper panel is the light emission resulting from the mixing of an aliquot of the fractions with pH 6.3 buffer. From Fogel and Hastings, 1971, with permission from Elsevier.

Bae, Y. M., and Hastings, J. W. (1994). Cloning, sequencing and expression of dinoflagellate luciferase DNA from a marine alga. Gonyaulax polyedra. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1219 449-456. 

Bode, V. C., and Hastings, J. W. (1963). The purification and properties of the bioluminescent system in Gonyaulax polyedra. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 103 488-499. 

Dunlap, J. C. (1979). Circadian organization of bioluminescence in Gonyaulax polyedra. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 

Hastings, J. W., and Sweeney, B. M. (1957). The luminescence reaction in extracts of the marine dinoflagellate, Gonyaulax polyedra. J. Cell. Comp. Physiol. 49 209-226. 

Lee, D. H., et al. (1993). Molecular cloning and genomic organization of a gene for luciferin-binding protein from the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra. J. Biol. Chem. 268 8842-8850. 

Li, L., and Hastings, J. W. (1998). The structure and organization of the luciferase gene in the photosynthetic dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra. Plant Mol. Biol. 36 275-284. 

Morse, D., Pappenheimer, A. M., Jr., and Hastings, J. W. (1989). Role of luciferin-binding protein in the circadian bioluminescent reaction of Gonyaulax polyedra.]. Biol. Chem. 264 11822-11826. 

Seliger, H. H., Biggley, W. H., and Swift, E. (1969). Absolute values of photon emission from the marine dinoflagellates Pyrodinium bahamense, Gonyaulax polyedra and Pyrocystis lunula. Photochem. Photobiol. 10 227-232. 

Observations of MAA synthesis relative to radiation exposure have been reported for several other dinoflagellate species (Table 15.5). In all but one study, increases in visible light intensities caused increases in the MAA concentration of cells.166 171 172 The exception was the dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium (Gonyaulax) polyedra, where exposure to visible light plus UV stimulated a 70% increase in the UV absorption of cells, but exposure to visible light alone resulted in an estimated 30% decline in cellular UV absorption.129... 

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Macisaac, J. (1978). Diel cycles of inorganic nitrogen uptake in a namral phytoplankton population dominated by Gonyaulax polyedra. Dmnol. Oceanogr. 23, 1—9. 

Ramalho, C. B., Hastings,. W., and Colepicolo, P. (1995). Circadian oscillation of nitrate reductase activity in Gonyaulax polyedra. Plant Physiol. 107, 225—231. 

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M. Vernet, A. Neori, F.T. Haxo (1989). Spectral properties and photosynthetic action in red-tide populations of Prorocentrum micans and Gonyaulax polyedra. Mar. Biol., 103, 365-371. 

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