Ca2+-regulated photoproteins are found in a variety of bioluminescent marine organisms, mostly coelenterates, and are responsible for their light emission. The best studied enzyme is from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. The enzyme tightly binds the imidazolopyrazinone derivative coelenterazine, which is then peroxidized by oxygen. The hydroperoxide is stably bound until three Ca2+ ions bind to the protein, inducing a structural change that results in the formation of a 1,2-dioxetan-3-one ring, followed by decarboxylation and generation of a protein-bound coelenteramide in an excited state. The calcium-bound protein-product complex is known as a blue fluorescent protein. In vivo the energy is transferred to a green fluorescent protein (GFP) by Forster resonance energy transfer. In vitro, in the absence of GFP, coelenteramide emits a photon of blue light while returning to its ground state.
Ca2+-regulated photoproteins are found in a variety of bioluminescent marine organisms, mostly coelenterates, and are responsible for their light emission. The best studied enzyme is from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. The enzyme tightly binds the imidazolopyrazinone derivative coelenterazine, which is then peroxidized by oxygen. The hydroperoxide is stably bound until three Ca2+ ions bind to the protein, inducing a structural change that results in the formation of a 1,2-dioxetan-3-one ring, followed by decarboxylation and generation of a protein-bound coelenteramide in an excited state. The calcium-bound protein-product complex is known as a blue fluorescent protein. In vivo the energy is transferred to a green fluorescent protein (GFP) by Forster resonance energy transfer. In vitro, in the absence of GFP, coelenteramide emits a photon of blue light while returning to its ground state.
the specific bioluminescence activities of five recombinant hydromedusan Ca2+-regulated photoproteins - aequorin, mitrocomin, clytin and obelins from Obelia longissima and Obelia geniculata is compared. Along with bioluminescence spectra, kinetics of light emission reactions and sensitivities to calcium, these photoproteins also differ in specific activities and consequently in quantum yields of biox02luminescent reactions. The highest specific activities are found for obelins and mitrocomin, whereas those of aequorin and clytin are lower
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to 1.7 A resolution. A calcium ion is observed in each of the three EF-hand loops that have the canonical calcium-binding sequence, and each is coordinated in the characteristic pentagonal bipyramidal configuration. The calcium-loaded apo-protein retains the same compact scaffold and overall fold as the unreacted photoprotein containing the bound substrate, 2-hydroperoxycoelenterazine and also the same as the Ca2+-discharged obelin bound with the product, coelenteramide
mutation of all 5 Cys resiudes to Ser. Cys-free obelin retains only about 10% of the bioluminescence activity of wild-type obelin and binds coelenterazine and forms active photoprotein much less effectively. The mutation drastically changes the bioluminescence kinetics of obelin completely eliminating a fast component from the light signal decay curve. Replacement of Cys residues increases conformational flexibility