Luciola lateralis

Tatsumi, H., Kajiyama, N., and Nakano, E. (1992). Molecular cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of a cDNA clone encoding luciferase of a firefly, Luciola lateralis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1131 161-165. 

Beside that of Photinus pyralis, other luciferases have been described in the literature such as those from Luciola cruciata, Luciola lateralis [122], and Luciola mingrelica. Among them luciferase from the latter one has been employed for analytical purposes [123],... 

Luciola cruciata specimens were collected from 62 sites in Japan covering almost all the insect s distribution areas. Luciola lateralis from 46 sites in Japan and two sites in Korea. Luciola owadai fi om Kume-jima Island, the Okinawa Islands, Japan. 

Ohba N, Tsumuraya T, Honda K, et al. Ecological study of the firefly, Luciola lateralis, of the Kushiro Shitsugen and Akkeshi, Hokkaido. Sci Rept Yokosuka City Mus 1993 41 15-26. 

The problem of a poor detection limit was caused by high background ATP and by the low sensitivity of the luciferin-luciferase (L-L) reagent. We have already developed an ATP elimination system using two ATP degrading enzymes (adenosine phosphate deaminase and apyrase) and a surfactant tolerant luciferase that was a mutated Luciola lateralis firefly luciferase. We optimized this elimination system, and investigated its suitability as a detection system. 

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