| 释义 |
æquorin Biochem.|ˈiːkwərɪn|
[f. mod.L. æquorea, generic name, fem. of L. æquoreus of the sea, f. æquor sea: see -in1.]
A protein mixture obtained from the jellyfish æquorea æquorea that luminesces with a blue light in the presence of calcium ions and is used for detecting the ions in living tissue.
1962O. Shimomura et al. in Federation Proc. XXI. 401/1 The activity apparently resides in a single protein, which we name ‘Aequorin’, whose luminescent reaction requires Ca++ but not molecular oxygen. 1978Nature 11 May 149/2 Direct evidence of a transient increase in intracellular free Ca2+ at the time of fertilisation or activation of fish and sea urchin eggs has been obtained using the photoprotein aequorin. |