Scintillon
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Scintillons are small structures in cytoplasm that produce light. Among bioluminescent organisms, only dinoflagellates have scintillons.
Glowing dinoflagellate bloom
Luciferase
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In molecular biology, luciferase is a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes that produce bioluminescence, and is usually distinguished from a photoprotein. The name was first used by Raphaël
Scintillon
…Among bioluminescent organisms, only dinoflagellates have scintillons. In the dinoflagellates, the biochemical reaction that produces light involves a luciferase-catalysed oxidation of a linear tetrapyrrole called luciferin. The dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedra (previously called Gonyaulax polyedra) also…
crystal structure of a luciferase domain from the dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum