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Aequorin
Aequorin
is a
calcium-activated
photoprotein
isolated from the
hydrozoan
Aequorea victoria
. Though the
bioluminescence
was studied decades before, the protein was originally isolated from the animal by
Osamu Shimomura
. In the animals, the protein occurs together with the
Green fluorescent protein
to produce green light by
resonant energy transfer
, while aequorin by itself generates blue light.
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