Publications

Fundamentals and Theoretical

Mutagenesis and Structural Studies Reveal the Basis for the Activity and Stability Properties That Distinguish the Photinus Luciferases scintillans and pyralis. Branchini BR, Fontaine DM, Southworth TL, Huta BP, Racela A, Patel KD, Gulick AM.Biochemistry. 2019 Oct 22;58(42):4293-4303.
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31560532/)

Mechanically Assisted Bioluminescence with Natural Luciferase. Schramm S, Al-Handawi MB, Karothu DP, Kurlevskaya A, Commins P, Mitani Y, Wu C, Ohmiya Y, Naumov P.Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2020 Jun 15. doi: 10.1002/anie.202007440.
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32543104/)

Unravelling the mechanism of pH-regulation in dinoflagellate luciferase. Kamerlin N, Delcey MG, Lindh R.Int J Biol Macromol. 2020 Aug 18:S0141-8130(20)34158-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.08.071.
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32822730/)

Fungal Light Emitter: Understanding Its Chemical Nature and pH-Dependent Emission in Water Solution. García-Iriepa C, Losantos R, Fernández-Martínez D, Sampedro D, Navizet I.J Org Chem. 2020 Apr 17;85(8):5503-5510. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c00246.
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32202422/)

Chemi- and Bioluminescence of Cyclic Peroxides
(https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00649)

How Do Methyl Groups Enhance the Triplet Chemiexcitation Yield of Dioxetane?
(http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01668)

Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2017 Jan 20. doi: 10.1039/c6cp08154a. [Epub ahead of print] Mechanism of activated chemiluminescence of cyclic peroxides: 1,2-dioxetanes and 1,2-dioxetanones. Augusto FA, Francés-Monerris A, Fdez Galván I, Roca-Sanjuán D, Bastos EL, Baader WJ, Lindh R.
(http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/CP/C6CP08154A#!divAbstract)

John Lee. (2016) Bioluminescence, the Nature of the Light. (University of Georgia Libraries).
(http://hdl.handle.net/10724/20031)

Experimental Support for a Single Electron-Transfer Oxidation Mechanism in Firefly Bioluminescence. Branchini BR, Behney CE, Southworth TL, Fontaine DM, Gulick AM, Vinyard DJ, Brudvig GW. J Am Chem Soc. 2015 Jun 24;137(24):7592-5. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b03820. Epub 2015 Jun 12.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26057379)

Bezrukikh, A., Esimbekova, E., Kratasyuk, V., and Shimomura, O. Gelatin and starch as stabilizers for the coupled enzyme system of luminous bacteria NADH:FMN-oxidoreductase-luciferase. Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 2014, 406, 5743-5747
(http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00216-014-7987-1)

Alieva, R.R., Belogurova, N.V., Petrova, A.S., Kudryasheva, N.S. Effects of alcohols on fluorescence intensity and color of a discharged-obelin-based biomarker. Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 2014, 406, 2965-2974.
(http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00216-014-7685-z)

Red-shifted emission from 1,2-dioxetane-based chemiluminescent reactions. Luminescence. 2014 Sep;29(6):553-8. Park JY, Gunpat J, Liu L, Edwards B, Christie A, Xie XJ, Kricka LJ, Mason RP.
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bio.2666/abstract )

Simultaneous Detection of Single Attoliter Droplet Collisions by Electrochemical and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescent Responses. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Sep 11. doi: 10.1002/anie.201407937. Dick JE, Renault C, Kim BK, Bard AJ.
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201407937/abstract)

Chemiexcitation Induced Proton Transfer: Enolate Oxyluciferin as the Firefly Bioluminophore. Pinto da Silva L, Esteves da Silva JC. J Phys Chem B. 2014 Jun 19.
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201400253/abstract;jsessionid=E1EB2ED363D4CA05DE18E0740D5070C8.f03t04 )

Understanding bacterial bioluminescence: a theoretical study of the entire process, from reduced flavin to light emission. Hou C, Liu YJ, Ferré N, Fang WH. Chemistry. 2014 Jun 23;20(26):7979-86.
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201400253/abstract;jsessionid=E1EB2ED363D4CA05DE18E0740D5070C8.f03t04)

Hybrid QM/MM simulations of the obelin bioluminescence and fluorescence reveal an unexpected light emitter. Chen S, Navizet I, Lindh R, Liu Y, Ferré N. J Phys Chem B. 2014 Mar 20;118(11):2896-903.
(http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp412198w)